New Board Elected at the 22nd Annual General Assembly

After the reports by President, István Havas, outgoing Secretary Treasurer Ferenc Pongrácz and AmCham CEO, Péter Dávid the General Assembly elected the new board members.

David Young, Managing Partner at Amrop Kohlmann & Young was re-elected as First Vice President. Dr. Andrea Jádi-Németh, Managing Partner at bpv | Jádi Németh Attorneys at Law was elected Second Vice President and Péter Fáth, Director of Stakeholder Relations at GDF SUEZ Energia Holding Hungary Zrt. became the new Secretary Treasurer.

Three new members were taken onto the Board: Norbert Fogarasi, General Manager at Morgan Stanley Hungary Analytics Ltd., László György, Managing Director of Cisco Systems Hungary and Frank Klausz 3rd, Chief Corporate Development Officer of Telenor Hungary Plc..

The General Assembly also gave a forum for the presentation of the Dr. Iván Völgyes Award which recognizes an individual’s significant contribution to the strengthening of US - Hungarian investor relations. This year the award supported by Synergon was presented to Marcel Szabó, a professor of Law and an enthusiastic promoter of the Hungarian-American dialogue and cooperation.

Read more on the GEforCEE blog at http://geforcee.geblogs.com/desperate-professor-behind-the-scenes/!

Marcel Szabó was teaching European Law at the San Francisco University and at Marymount College and was also the initiator and one of the founders of the Central-European Studies Program designed by the University of San Francisco and Pázmány University to introduce our region to American students.

While teaching international law in California in 2010, during a visit to the Ronald Reagan Museum and Library, he realized that the Centennial of President Reagan would be in the next year. After his return to Hungary, he suggested that a statute should be raised in Budapest to commemorate the achievements of President Reagan. As a result, a non-governmental Memorial Committee was set up and he was commissioned to organize the creation of the statute and all events related to it. He pursued a primordial organizational role in the fundraising, selection of the architect and the location, getting the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation involved with the event and arranging many details for the ceremonial parliamentary session and the unveiling of the statute.