LONDON: ESET CEO Richard Marko was voted the “Most Respected CEO” in a survey of company leaders in Slovakia, conducted by PwC and Forbes Magazine (Slovak edition). The CEOs from Slovakia’s leading companies were asked to name the person whom they value the most for management skills, success and personal qualities.
Already the 3rd of its kind, the 2015 poll saw the participation of 121 business leaders, the award announcement came at a gala ceremony held in Bratislava last night.
“I have great appreciation for this award which is a result of a vote by my colleagues from influential Slovak companies. However, it is not an award just for myself, it mirrors the team spirit and work of entire ESET. We will do our best to keep the trust,” says ESET CEO Richard Marko.
“Uniqueness of the Most Respected CEO award lies in the fact that it is a peer-to-peer acknowledgement. CEOs are a tough bunch to impress, so being chosen by them as the most respected CEO in Slovakia is a huge achievement,“ stressed Todd Bradshaw, Country Managing Partner, PwC Slovakia.
BIO: Richard Marko, Chief Executive Officer, ESET
Richard Marko has been CEO of ESET since January 2011; before that, he was the company’s Chief Technology Officer from 2008 to 2010. As CEO he has overseen the deployment of ESET’s new generation of products for consumers and business, and major global growth ESET has witnessed as a result.
Richard was one of the co-designers of ESET’s award-winning antivirus system and its proprietary scanning engine, released for the first time in 1995. In 1998, as Chief Software Architect, he co-designed ESET’s NOD32 technology for the next generation of products, and then oversaw the deployment of ESET’s new flagship consumer product – ESET Smart Security – in 2007. He co-programmed ESET’s Advanced Heuristics, which in 2002 delivered a technological breakthrough in malware detection. Thanks to this technology, ESET is now a world leader in IT security.
Richard Marko began his career at ESET while still a student at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, Košice Technical University, Slovakia; he graduated in 1996 with a Master’s of Science with Distinction, and his dissertation won the Rector’s Award.