Company Management

As a conglomerate with over a hundred owned subsidiaries and many more in which we have a partial stake, TVDC's overall organization chart is inconveniently complex to depict.   Many management teams are shared across more than one company.   See the individual companies' web sites for a look at how they are run.
 

All the TVDC component company CEO's answer to TVDC's chief executive officer, Nándor Sebestyén.
 

Sebestyén's great-uncle Yanosz Sebestyén was one of the two founders of Trü-Virtvec Construction, in a small town just outside today's HQ of Sajoszentpéter.   Nándor did not simply inherit the helm -- the family is large, and many members are involved in TVDC management.   Now 62, Nándor did not take control of TVDC as a whole until twelve years ago, having served since 1495 in the management of numerous subsidiaries.   For ten years before that he served as a civil engineer in three of them.   Nándor's degree in Civil Engineering was earned at Fitzallaine Polytechnic, and while he does not micromanage TVDC's many engineering projects, he does take an active interest in them.   Woe unto the project manager who tries to put something over on the big boss -- they're likely to find themselves defending their choice of bridge type or drill rig, down to the boderu.
 

Nándor is married, to a current Sajoszentpéter city council member, and has five children, 28 grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.   In his spare time, which he does insist upon, he raises and rides Appaloosas.
 

TVDC's board of directors is headed by Chairman Gyorg Sebestyén.   At 81, Gyorg shows no signs of retirement, nor any need to.   He has quit riding his cousin Nándor's horses, but he does actively ride herd on Nándor's business activities.   Mr. Gyorg has earned his post too, having worked his way from seaman to Commodore in the Hz Coast Guard, then from middle-management of a transport division company, to its senior management slots, to those of TVDC itself.   He has earned the position of crusty old codger, and plays it to the hilt.   His dozens of grandchildren and great-grands claim it's an act; managers reporting to him beg to differ.   He has served the board ably as chairman for sixteen years.   Under his and cousin Nándor's hands TVDC has increased its holdings by a sixth, both in book value and in skana amount of business conducted yearly.
 

Gyorg has outlived two beloved wives, and now lives with a niece and her husband in the woods north of Sajoszentpéter.   He commutes to the city to conduct TVDC business in a chauffered red 1432 Valanian Stallion roadster, down the road his fathers' firm built for the megye.
 

Chief Operating Officer:   In an outfit as big as TVDC it's hard for one person to direct everything.   Both Sebestyéns delegate heavily.   Nándor, as chief executive directs the company's technical "tactical operations", and delegates many of the business tactical ops to the COO, Maria Prochazka.   The two have worked together for fourteen years.   It is company lore that no meeting needs both of them, as they will be finishing each others' sentences.
 

Maria is a master juggler, in a business sense.   The component companies of TVDC are not required to operate in the same manner, though there are some standards set out by HQ.   They must nevertheless work together, and Maria is who ensures that that is done smoothly.   No business unit is permitted to subvert another's activities.   She requires that any competition is worked out internally, before projects are bid upon.   Instead of two TVDC subsidiaries bidding against one another, those interested in the same work she encourages to submit combined bids.
 

In her position Maria operates partly as despot and partly as diplomat.   She has the linguistic skills for diplomacy, speaking six of the Confederation's official tongues.   The despotism she came by honestly, having briefly done a stint as headmistress of a girls' secondary school before leaving teaching for business.   She has twin degrees in languages and economics, and a master's degree in business.   Unlike her boss Nándor, Maria doesn't have much of a life outside TVDC -- she has a downtown Sajoszentpéter apartment near TVDC headquarters but is seldom there, instead constantly travelling from subsidiary, to customer, to subsidiary, back to HQ.
 

TVDC is a family of companies serving the nation of Hŕromszék and the rest of the world of Scandia.