Mehdi Benaniba, Bank Representative

  • 20 Apr 2012 12:00 PM
Mehdi Benaniba, Bank Representative
My name is Mehdi BENANIBA, I am a French - European citizen of 25 y.o. living in Budapest for the past 2 years. I am graduated in marketing and work currently as a French/English/Spanish Representative for a bank. I also love sport and practice rugby with the Budapest Exiles.

During my free time I handle several project related with on-line optimization and community management such as:
- Dubser, a smart application to search on-line, I am in charge of marketing and improvement of the software, with my Hungarian friend.
- imehdia, as I am interested in interaction between business and social media, I am developing my own activity target on French market to develop visibility and on-line presence for small business.

1. When did you arrive in Hungary and what brought you here?
I arrived in February 2010 for a web marketing internship.

2. Have you ever been an expatriate elsewhere?
Yes, twice, in Spain (Getafe) and Ireland (Cork).

3. What surprised you most about Hungary?
The language and the History.

4. Friends are in Budapest for a weekend - what must they absolutely see and do?
Heroes square, Margit Sziget, Instant, Gellért Hill, Bath, Corvin tető... and I will suggest them to stay longer.

5. What is your favorite Hungarian food?
Gulyás

6. What is never missing from your refrigerator?
French cheese and Ice tea.

7. What is your favorite Hungarian word?
Barátom (Bar à Tom - fra/Tom's pub - eng).

8. What do you miss most from home?
My relatives.

9. What career other than yours would you love to pursue?
No other.

10. What's a job you would definitely never want?
Work in fast food.

11. Where did you spend your last vacation?
Spain (Costa Brava and Andalucía) and Belgium (Brussels and Bruges).

12. Where do you hope to spend your next holiday?
At Home and Croatia.

13. What was your favorite band, film, or hobby as a teen?
c2c, Kubrick's/Tarantino's/Kusturica's movies, Rugby (still my hobby).

14. What can't you resist?
I can't resist to Jagerbomb.

15. Red wine or white?
Red

16. Book or movie?
Movie

17. Morning person or night person?
24/7

18. Which social issue do you feel most strongly about?
Language barrier.

19. Buda or Pest side?
Pest

20. What would you say is your personal motto?
Where there's something for one, there's also for three! and I feel just like a child (Devendra Banhar).

 

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