The Australia-Hungary Business Bridge is the Australia and Hungary leg of My Most Trusted, hosted by Charles Kovess. A warm introduction is the only way to meet someone here. No bots, no spam, no cold outreach.
kender. Hungarian for hemp, a crop Hungary grew and spun for centuries, and one both sides of this Bridge are working to bring back.
Ask an older Hungarian about kender and you may hear about the hemp fields and rope works their grandparents knew. Hungary was long one of Europe's great hemp growers. Today Australian and Hungarian growers, engineers and manufacturers are rebuilding that industry together, and it is a fair picture of this Bridge: something both countries know how to do, done better when the right people on each side are introduced.
Every club has an idea like this one, and it belongs to the place rather than to us. It is not a slogan we handed out.
Charles Kovess hosts the Australian side of the Bridge from Melbourne. He has been President of the Australia Hungary Chamber of Commerce and Industry for 36 years, and he is President of the Australian Industrial Hemp Alliance. He is also CEO and International Marketing Director of Textile & Composite Industries (TCI), which has developed patented machinery for industrial hemp decortication, fibre extraction and processing, and he has worked for years on bringing hemp fibre and textile production back to Eastern Europe. For more than 30 years he has worked with C-suite leaders and teams who are technically brilliant but stuck, helping them rediscover passion and purpose, because, as he puts it, passion isn't a soft skill, it's a business strategy. Before that he spent 20 years as a high-level tax lawyer, until in 1993 he walked away from the courtroom to help leaders find their fire. He is CEO of Kovess International, a keynote speaker and executive coach, and the host of The Charles Kovess Show. He studied law at the University of Melbourne and holds a Master of Laws from Monash University.
Charles Kovess is a real person in Melbourne, not a logo. That is the point. Somebody has to know both people for an introduction to be worth anything.