Lél F. Somogyi

BIOGRAPHY

Lél F. Somogyi has a diverse background, including extensive experience in management consulting, marketing and PR, product marketing and management, business management, IT management, and high-technology business startups. 

Since 1997, he served in the roles of IT Manager and CIO at a number of manufacturing companies, implementing enterprise software, upgrading and configuring servers, and supporting users. Since 2000, he has also provided business advisory services to SMB and collaborated on a number of business startup ventures.

Between 1988 and 1996, he founded and was president of two international high-technology companies. His companies, based in the US, worked with engineers in Hungary, to design, manufacture and market high-speed disk controllers and storage systems for servers and network attached optical media storage devices. He worked with the Hungarian companies Müszertechnika and then Videoton, as well as with a number of other technology and manufacturing companies in Hungary, including Semilab and Recognita.

Prior to these endeavors, he was director of marketing for Chi Corporation, a Case Western Reserve University spinoff company that manufactured terminal emulation products and communications processors primary for government and military applications.

From 1977 to 1985, he was with Ernst & Young, where he was a senior management consultant and IT auditor prior to becoming the firm’s national practice director for both strategic planning services and contingency/disaster recovery planning services. He  worked with many large, global financial and manufacturing organizations in implementing strategic business plans and system solutions.

Since 1995, he has edited the annual Chronicles of the Hungarian Congress, a book of articles on various topics primarily in history, political science and culture. He serves as the Secretary-General of the Árpád Academy of Hungarian scientists, writers and artists, which is part of the Cleveland-based worldwide Hungarian Association. He is a published author of numerous articles on topics in Hungarian history as well as co-author of “Faith & Faith: A Short Cultural History of Hungary.”

He is a graduate of Case Western Reserve University, with an M.S. in Management Information Systems and a B.S. in Computer Engineering (with minors in Journalism and History of Science & Technology).

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