• Paul Garrison, Former Managing Director of Coca-Cola Hungary

    Paul Garrison, Former Managing Director of Coca-Cola Hungary

    Paul Garrison is the former Managing Director of Coca-Cola Hungary and prior to that was the Marketing Director for the Coca-Cola East-Central Europe Division headquartered in Vienna.

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  • Xpat Interview: Alan Orozco

    Xpat Interview: Alan Orozco

    I am a Peruvian citizen currently working as a Service Bid manager for a major ICT multinational company known as British Telecom. Also I am a resident disc jockey in Moulin Rouge Budapest during the winter seasons, and Café Puerto in summer.

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  • Sylvia Llewelyn, Artist,  Jewellery Designer

    Sylvia Llewelyn, Artist, Jewellery Designer

    I spend half my life in Budapest and half in central London. I call myself am artist these days as it incorportes all the things I do, such as performing in an English comedy play though this April and early May with Equus Productions at Picasso Point in Hajos utca and selling my designer jewellery made of buttons at the Wamp shows and Rhododrendron Art gallery as well as in London, also a little teaching and writing, interior design, and Antiques and Art Appraising which is my qulaified profession.

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  • Xpat Interview: Mercedes Gyorgy

    Xpat Interview: Mercedes Gyorgy

    I am an American/ Hungarian. My parents left Hungary in 1956 and made their way through Canada to America .

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  • Éva Polgár, Pianist

    Éva Polgár, Pianist

    Born in 1983, Éva Polgár started her piano studies in 1990. In 2001, she was admitted to the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, where her teacher was Hamsa Al-Wadi Juis. Éva finished her studies in Helsinki in 2008, and at her diploma concert was honoured to play Beethoven's 3rd concerto with an orchestra conducted by the famous Finnish conductor, Okko Kamu. From 2002, Éva also studied at Budapest's Franz Liszt University of Music under the expert guidance of Jenö Jandó. Éva graduated with honour from Franz Liszt University with a Masters degree in 2007.

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  • Dez O'Connell, Bar & Spirits Consultant

    Dez O'Connell, Bar & Spirits Consultant

    I was born in Glasgow and lived as an expat child until returning to the UK for high school and university. Prior to coming to Budapest, I was the Bar Manager at Roast in the heart of London's Borough Market. Before that, I looked after the three bars that comprise Just St. James in Mayfair. Whether it's running events for 800 guests or one to one service, my passion for all that is Bar is my driving force.

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