Ing. František Baranec was born in 1967 in Čadca, Slovakia. After completing his studies in mathematical methods at the University of Economics in Bratislava, he worked as an assistant at the University of Transport and Communications in Žilina. He later transitioned to a private company focused on software development, where he served as an analyst and programmer. From 1995 to 2002, he worked at IBM Slovakia, progressing through roles as a product team member, sales representative for select major projects, and finally, manager of the Enterprise Systems Group team. Starting in 2003, he joined Cisco Systems, where he held several positions: initially as a sales representative for the public sector market, later as team leader of the pub…