Valent Gura is an IT veteran, who worked as an individual contributor as well as director in global IT companies; in his reference are projects from public as well as from business sector. He studied Control and Communication Technology at University of Transport. His professional career started in Information Technologies Research Institute where he worked at eminent projects SM4-20 and SM52/12 (1976-1990). During his time at Digital Equipment Slovakia in 1992-1994 he worked in various roles on key projects in Stredoslovenske Energeticke Závody, Transpetrol, VÚB, ŽSR and others. In 1996 – 1999 he initiated development and afterwards led the division of Enterprise counselling in Slovak branch of Arthur Andersen. In Compaq he works f…