Startups and the Digital Entrepreneur

Dita Charanzová ran for the European Parliament in 2014 as an independent candidate in the 3rd place of the ANO 2011 Movement´s electoral list. In the elections she received 8356 preferential votes. As an MEP she has also become a member of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection and is a substitute in the Committee on International Trade.

Ivan Štefanec was born in 1961 in Považská Bystrica, Slovakia. He is a postgraduate from the University of Economics in Bratislava, where he obtained a PhD Degree in Economic Informatics in 1994. He also completed his studies at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York and received an MBA. He worked at Coca-Cola as a General Manager and a Director for European Integration. He was a founding partner and is Honorary President of the Business Alliance of Slovakia.

He joined the SDKÚ-DS Party in 2006 and became a member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic. He was Chairman of the Committee on European Affairs and a member of the Parliamentary Committee on Finance, Budget and Currency. Ivan Štefanec also served as a governmental plenipotentiary for the introduction of the Euro in Slovakia.

He is a member of the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection and a substitute on the Budgets Committee of the European Parliament.

MEP since 2014.

Ildikó Pelczné Gáll is a Hungarian politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) with the Hungarian Civic Party, part of the European People's Party. She graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Heavy Industry in Miskolc. She studied at post-graduate in economics, has acquired rights and tax consultant auditor. She worked as a university lecturer, received a doctoral degree.

In 2005 she became a member of the national authorities of Fidesz.

In 2006 she was elected deputy to the National Assembly. She was Vice-President of the fraction of Deputies of her group, and from July 2009 to May 2010 she served as Deputy Speaker of the Parliament.

In the 2010 national elections, she gained re-election. Soon after, but not to mandate, going to work to the European Parliament, when replaced Pál Schmitt.

Born in 1954 in Poznan, he is a graduate of the University of Warsaw where he lectured in the Department of Polish Culture for many years. He has been involved in the ‘Solidarity’ underground movement since 1980. He has been a member of the national authorities of ‘Solidarity’ since 1989 and in 1990, became Chairman of the Mazowsze Region Management Board.

He was the Minister of Labour and Social Policy in 1991 and from 1992 to 1993, he held the position of Secretary of State in the same ministry where he was responsible, inter alia, for labour market policy. From 1998 to 2001, he was the Chief Advisor to the Minister of Labour and Social Policy. He was the Head of Strategic Advisors to the Prime Minister Donald Tusk from 2008 and Minister of Administration and Digitisation of Poland from 2011 till 2013.