From 30 November 2021, he has been the head of the food division of OPUS GLOBAL Plc., and has also been the co-managing director of KALL Ingredients Ltd., a subsidiary of the listed company, and the Chairperson the Supervisory Board of VIRESOL Ltd. Szabolcs Makai graduated as an agricultural economist. For two decades he held various management positions at the US multinational Cargill. Initially, he managed the fodder business and later the Hungarian and Slovakian business of the cereals, oilseeds and inputs division, as Chief Executive Officer.
He was a member of Cargill’s global strategy team in Minneapolis, as Strategic Director, and since 2017 he has served in European management as Commercial Director and President and CEO of Cargill Takarmány Ltd. In 2019, he joined Talentis Agro Ltd. as CEO, which he has been managing since then.
Further posts:
Since 01.2022, Chairman of the Board of Directors pf Gallicoop Ltd.
Since 12.2021 Member of the Board of Directors of the National Stud Farm and Tangazdaság Ltd.
Since 10.2021 Member of the Board of Directors of Agrolink Ltd.
Szabolcs Makai was elected to the Rector’s Advisory Board of MATE in November 2021.
In 2024, he received a doctorate in Social Sciences with Summa Cum Laude in Economics and Management.