Zoltán Koltai

Chief Operations Officer at eAircraft Hungary

Electric aviation is a very new and extremely exciting area. I believe, this is the future of the industry. I am proud to contribute to the amazing innovation work at Siemens, as COO of the eAircraft team in Hungary!

Earlier he was the Technology Director for the EMEA region at Current powered by GE. He holds a Master’s Degree in mechanical engineering. His prior assignments included Global NPI Leader, Global Automotive and HID Technology Manager positions in GE Lighting. For many years he has served as a member of the standardization group ELMAPS TC5. Zoltán oversees the Research and Development activities of LED systems focusing on Europe, Middle East and Africa with the mission and vision to help transform our business from making lamps to inventing and building intelligent lighting system solutions. Beyond energy efficient lighting solutions, like LEDs, Zoltán is breaking new grounds by helping the youngest GE business reduce, shift and produce energy, utilizing distributed hybrid energy resources. Quite a transformation from manufacturing lightbulbs to renewable energy!