Walter Becvar

Walter Becvar is the Managing Partner of Odgers Berndtson's Vienna office. Specialising in Board and HR related assignments, he has extensive knowledge of all aspects of senior management across a broad range of industries in Austria and Eastern Europe.

Prior to joining Odgers Berndtson he was a Managing Partner at one of the largest HR management consultancies for four years before which he was CEO of Tenovis (Bosch Telekom) in Austria, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic a company of the US equity firm KKR.

Earlier he was Head of Sales and Customer Care at Telekom Austria, looking after all customer interfaces and 4,000 employees for seven years. He joined there from Philips where he was Marketing Manager for Consumer Goods for six years.

He first trained as an electrical engineer before completing his studies in Business Administration & Business and HR Education at the University of Economics and Business in Vienna.