Executive Committee

Dr. Sándor Végh
Chair
Sándor Végh has been active in the local Hungarian community in the Washington area since he arrived in the U.S. in 1997.
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Sándor Végh has been active in the local Hungarian community in the Washington area since he arrived in the U.S. in 1997. Between 1998 and 2012, he managed Hungarian activities in the Kossuth House, including cultural events, exhibitions, film clubs, library, language classes, and networking events, first as president of the Kossuth House Social Club, and later as president of the Hungarian America Foundation, a small non-profit organization he founded with a focus on young professionals. He joined the Kossuth Foundation in 2021 and was elected Chair in December 2022.
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Zsolt Szekeres
Vice Chair
Zsolt Szekeres was born in Germany and worked as an international civil servant for the United Nations in Washington, DC.
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Zsolt Szekeres was born in Germany and worked as an international civil servant for the United Nations in Washington, DC. He is a founding member of the Hungarian American Coalition where he served both as a Board member and President; he is currently the organization’s Treasurer since 1991. Currently, he is President of the Hungarian Human Rights Foundation, working on behalf of Hungarian minorities for several decades.
Fluent in Hungarian, Spanish, and English, Mr. Szekeres and his brothers founded Information for Investment Decisions (IID), in the early ’70s, with locations in both D.C. and Budapest helping DC-based organizations such as the Hungarian Reformed Federation of America, Committee for Danubian Research and other non-governmental organizations in Hungary and in the United States. He is a member of the Board of the Carpathian Foundation based in Eger, Hungary, and Pro Ruris Egyesület, Mezőmadaras, Romania.
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Attila Juhász
Treasurer
Attila Juhasz was elected the Treasurer of the Kossuth Foundation in December 2023.
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Attila Juhasz is Principal Portfolio Manager and Head of the US Fixed Income Desk at the Treasury of The World Bank. He manages the risk and investment strategies of all the USD fixed income portfolios for both internal clients of the World Bank Group and external clients. Mr. Juhasz joined the World Bank Investment Management Department in 2006 and has over 25 years of investment management experience in fixed income products, focusing in particular on global bond markets and on derivative strategies. Prior to joining the World Bank, Attila worked at the National Bank of Hungary as a portfolio manager in the Reserve Management Department where he was responsible for managing the Euro investment portfolio. Mr. Juhasz has an MS in Economics from the Budapest University of Economic Sciences and is a CFA charterholder.
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Judit Slezák
Secretary
Judit Slezak is an accomplished business executive with more than 15 years of experience in marketing and business development.
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Judit Slezak is an accomplished business executive with more than 15 years of experience in marketing and business development. She has put her leadership skills, business acumen, and marketing expertise in a variety of corporate settings including Bombardier Aerospace, Prudential Financial, HR Certification Institute (HRCI), Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), ASCD (originally the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development), and The Source for Learning (SFL). Ms. Slezak demonstrated success in developing and executing strategies that have driven brand awareness, revenue growth, and engagement in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors.

She holds an MBA from Virginia Tech Pamplin College of Business, and a B.S. in German and Russian studies from Juhasz Gyula College. She is proficient in five languages. Ms. Slezak joined the board of the Kossuth Foundation in 2020 and serves as a board president at Cultured Kids nonprofit organization focusing on building global citizens through education.

She resides in Vienna, VA with her husband and son.
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Other Board Members

Zsuzsanna Seres
Rev. Judit Máyer
Andrea Lauer Rice
Emese Latkóczy
Gábor (Gabe) Rózsa
Kinga Hydras
Tamás Baranyay

Advisory Council

Theodore Boone
Theodore S. Boone is Of Counsel in Dentons' Budapest office.
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Theodore S. Boone is Of Counsel in Dentons' Budapest office. Ted is a practical and solution driven counsellor focusing on complex commercial transactions and corporate policy matters. Ted's work has involved, among other areas, financial institutions, manufacturing, energy, entertainment, transport, consumer goods, telecom, media, real estate, biotechnology and services. In the course of his practice Ted draws on his extensive commercial and legal experience arising from previous leadership positions in the US and Europe at premier international law firms and one of the Big 4 and as a former President and Chair of the Board of Governors of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hungary. Ted is also a member of the faculty of Corvinus University of Budapest's School of Business where he teaches in Corvinus University's National Bank of Hungary sponsored MBA double degree program with the University of Fudan, China. Ted is a former Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University's School of Law in Washington, DC.
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Edward Maguire
Ed Maguire is a lawyer by training, having practiced corporate law for 22 years.
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Ed Maguire is a lawyer by training, having practiced corporate law for 22 years. He spend 16 years at Deloitte as Tax Partner, advising US and foreign companies and individuals, with responsibilities throughout Western and Eastern Europe. Before retirement he spent nine years as Inspector General and Senior Adviser to US Intelligence Agencies. r. Maguire has contributed his pro bono to several cultural organizations over the years, including the DC Youth Orchestra, American Hungarian Cultural Center, the Washington Conservatory of Music, and the Lochland School in Geneva, NY. He is a gradute of Harvard University with a BA and a JD from the Harvard Law School. He also speaks French, Russian, German, Polish and Hungarian.
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Dr. Orsolya Köhalmi-Zahoránszky
Orsolya Zahoranszky-Kohalmi is an attorney admitted to practice law in Hungary and in the United States, Maryland.
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Orsolya Zahoranszky-Kohalmi is an attorney admitted to practice law in Hungary and in the United States, Maryland. She pursued her legal studies in Hungary at the University of Debrecen, School of Law and earned her J.D. degree in 2004 with "Summa Cum Laude"qualification. She worked as an apprentice attorney and attorney in law firms in Budapest between 2004-2010, gaining experience in civil contracts, litigation. In 2010 she earned a LL.M. in info-communication law from the University of Pécs, School of Law, her thesis covered the emerging area of virtual companies. The same year she moved to the United States, New Mexico, where she was lucky to broaden her legal knowledge through work and attending law school. She received her J.D. in 2016 from the University of New Mexico, School of Law with an award in health law. In 2021 she was admitted to practice law in Maryland.
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Atilla Kocsis
Atilla Kocsis was born and raised in New Jersey and grew up in the local Hungarian communities.
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Atilla Kocsis was born and raised in New Jersey and grew up in the local Hungarian communities. He has participated in the scouts and other cultural groups and clubs. He serves on the boards of four Hungarian groups and two other organizations.
Mr. Kocsis is an entrepreneur, angel investor, and real estate investor. He has started and funded eight companies over the last two decades and is currently working with a SAAS, and AI start-up. He also maintains a portfolio of rental properties spread across Virginia.
He is married and resides in Alexandria, VA with their daughter and son.
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