He is a shareholder and board member of the Hungarian-based multinational oil and gas company, MOL Group.

He owns Bonafarm, the holding company of a Hungarian agricultural and food manufacture group.

[2] Sándor Csányi was born on the 20 March 1953 in a lower middle-class agricultural family in Jászárokszállás.

In 1992 he became chairman & CEO of OTP Bank Group and fired a number of managers (which was unheard of in a formerly socialistic country).

[6] After the privatization of OTP Bank in 1995, he started focusing on questions of broader strategic development.

[4] Through a series of acquisitions and steady organic growth, OTP Group has become one of the major financial institutions in Central Eastern Europe with a footprint in 11 countries; through its 1 656 branches and online channels OTP Group offers universal banking services to over 18.5 million customers.

He is Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of MOL Group [7] and Co-Chairman of Chinese-Hungarian Business Council.