I came to Hungary in 1999 to visit my sister and run the Budapest Marathon. She suggested that I work with property here, so I started a property development company that buys, renovates and sells or rents high-end apartments and houses in Budapest. I met my wife doing my first apartment renovation and I married her in 2006. Since then, we have had three children.

Last year, I have also started a real estate agency that focuses on luxury real estate in Budapest. I love Hungary and the life we have here.

1. When did you arrive in Hungary and what brought you here?
I arrived in Hungary in October of 1999. I traveled here to visit my sister and run the Budapest Marathon. Then I bought my first apartment, renovated, and rented out, and which my real estate development company has been doing ever since. Last year, I have also started a real estate agency focusing on luxury apartment rentals for other expats.

2. Have you ever been an expatriate elsewhere?
I lived in Slovakia for a year while my wife finished her Veterinarian Degree.

3. What surprised you most about Hungary?
All of its hidden potential.

4. Friends are in Budapest for a weekend - what must they absolutely see and do?
Well there are the typical sites such as the castle, Parliament, hero square, visit a bath, but what I like to show people is a little of Hungary's history such as a walk down Falk Miksa street to look at antics. To visit the bunk on top of the Gellért Hill. Or to drive to the Skanzen near Szentendre.

5. What is your favourite Hungarian food?
Brassói and lángos...

6. What is never missing from your refrigerator?
Toppings that get my kids to eat their food, ketchup, Italian dressing, syrup.

7. What is your favourite Hungarian word?
Taxi állomás, which was the first word I learn from my Relax Hungarian lessons.

8. What do you miss most from home?
Product without a 30% markup for taxes

9. What career other than yours would you love to pursue?
Architect

10. What's a job you would definitely never want?
Common Representative of a condominium. There is nothing worse than house meetings.

11. Where did you spend your last vacation?
Dubai

12. Where do you hope to spend your next holiday?
In America, visiting family.

13. What was your favourite band, film, or hobby as a teen?
I always liked playing sports, especially football (american).

14. What can't you resist?
To spend more time with my family.

15. Red wine or white?
White because you don't need a meal with it.

16. Book or movie?
Movie.

17. Morning person or night person?
Morning which is hard in Hungary because nothing opens until 9 or 10 in the morning.

18. Which social issue do you feel most strongly about?
Education because all other issues can be solved if we educate every one.

19. Buda or Pest side?
Pest because it's the heart of the city.

20. What would you say is your personal motto?
Work hard and your rewards will come later.