He worked in Canada for three years as Director of Supply Chain North America before coming to Hungary. Have a financial diploma from Copenhagen and a background as Captain within the Danish Air Force. Also a recent graduate of the Ivey Executive Development offered by University of Western Ontario in Canada.

Established own company Gershoj Kft in Tata last year. The company is adding value to management, manufacturing & supply chain-processes within international companies. And the second leg of the business is exploration of business ideas.


1. When did you arrive in Hungary and what brought you here?
I arrived almost three years ago. My now Hungarian wife was the reason - and a very good one. There was also a job involved at that time, but she was the primary reason. And today I run my own company with her great important support.

2. Have you ever been an expatriate elsewhere?
Yes, I came from Canada, where I worked close to Toronto in Ontario, but travelled all over Canada. Fantastic nature unbeatable by any other country I've seen so far. And within business a very positive & realistic entrepreneurial spirit. Besides this, I've had short-term jobs in Croatia and France, but I didn't really consider myself an expatriate at the time.

3. What surprised you most about Hungary?
I had visited Hungary many times before, so not one thing specifically surprised me. And I have got accustomed to many things. What strikes me still though is how closed and not so service-friendly people you can still meet in business. Hungarians are very friendly once you get to know them, so I take it more as shyness. But explaining this to visiting friends can still be difficult for me.

4. Friends are in Budapest for a weekend - what must they absolutely see and do?
We do the classic tour, book a room on Gellert for the bath. But also make sure to drive up to Esztergom, stop at Szentendre and the bob-sledge place. The 'slow route' as we call it, back to Tata for a walk by the lake.

5. What is your favourite Hungarian food?
Pörkölt - not only because of the food itself but the whole idea of cooking in nature, taking your time, with friends, appeals very much to me.

6. What is never missing from your refrigerator?
Milk. We start every day with a fresh coffee made on hot milk in the bed, the whole little family, wakening up.

7. What is your favourite Hungarian word?
'Segíthetek?' Can I help you. It took me a while to understand, but now I like the word. So far away from 'help' but has a certain rhyme and a positive tone to it.

8. What do you miss the most from home?
The fjords, the long curvy stretches of beaches or islands. The possibility to dump my kayak almost everywhere and explore small islands or streams in fresh water.

9. What career other than yours would you love to pursue?
An old friend of mine once told me "you would like to try everything - just for a year". There's many interesting fields to work with in life - but presently I'm very content working at my own company Gershoj Kft. The challenge is good and I enjoy it.

10. What's a job you would definitely never want?
There's probably a few, but being positive spirited it is not possible for me to think of one right now, at the top of my head.

11. Where did you spend your last vacation?
Tuscany, Italy. It was actually on our honeymoon. We had a small stone-cottage on a mountain side for a couple of weeks, enjoying our little family, fresh food and nice wine.

12. Where do you hope to spend your next one?
The Norwegian group of islands called Svalbard close to the polar circle. Together with a good old friend back from the Danish Airforce we will go there this summer trekking for 10 days. Training has started in the hills behind Tata!

13. What was your favourite band, film, or hobby as a teen?
I loved electronics - and still do. For some reason I never educated in the field, but I can still be fascinated by constructing or inventing new things.

14. What can't you resist?
My wife.

15. Red wine or white?
Red wine, Cabernet Sauvignon. A name I've learned you don't make a mistake with so often. And it disguises my illiteracy within wines.

16. Book or movie?
Both. I guess I read a book a month both fiction and non-fiction, in all kind of fields. These days mostly biographies. But watching a movie for a couple of hours can be relaxing and inspiring as well.

17. Morning person or night person?
Used to be a night person, but as I get older I appreciate the mornings more and more.

18. Dog person or cat person?
Grew up with dogs, but came to like cats as well, for their independency but still loyalty.

19. Buda side or Pest side?
Mostly familiar with the Pest side, but should I live inside Budapest I would prefer the Buda hills anytime.

20. What would you say is your personal motto?
"Seize the day". Easy to say, so difficult to do.