Betzalel Kenigsztein is the CEO of UPC Hungary. He was born in Argentina in 1961, to a family of Polish origin. He built his education and career in Israel and especially in the cable industry, where he has over 20 years experience. A seasoned executive within the UPC group, he has a great operational track record.
Kenigsztein holds an MBA from Bar Ilan University in Israel majoring in marketing, and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering Cum Laude from the Technion, a worldwide leading technology institute in Israel.
Between 1989 and 2003 he held a range of senior management positions in Tevel and Tevel Telecom, a leading cable television operator in Israel, at the time 50% owned by UPC’s parent company. Having led the establishment of Tevel’s cable network infrastructure, he was later responsible for the introduction of advanced services and technologies over the CATV network, including fast internet, digital video, interactive applications. He was also in charge of business development, including potential telecommunications projects abroad, mainly in Central Europe. In 2002, he was appointed general manager of Tevel Telecom, which was established to deploy and operate data and telephony services for the three merged cable operators in Israel.
In 2004 Betzalel became the chief technology officer of UPC Netherlands, the biggest UPC operation. He was instrumental in the innovation of the UPC Netherlands network as one of the most high-end cable systems in the world. He prepared, rolled out and operated all new digital services over the cable network: VOIP (2004), digital TV (2005), DVR, VOD (2006), HD (2007), and UPC Fiber Power (2008), the first commercial implementation in Europe of the breakthrough EuroDOCSIS 3.0 technology that enables ultrafast internet speeds over 100 Mbps.
In mid-June 2009 he was appointed CEO of UPC Hungary.
Kenigsztein is married and has three children, aged 8, 12 and 15.