Balázs Kis

Balázs holds a degree in IT engineering (Technical University of Budapest) and is about to earn his PhD in Applied linguistics (translation technologies; University of Pécs). He started his career as a certified Microsoft systems engineer and trainer (MCSE, MCT), and was active as one of the most prominent trainers until 2002. He also works as a technical author: he has published more than 10 books on advanced Windows technologies and language technology, which made him the best-selling Hungarian IT author to date. Besides Kilgray, he also participates in running the family-owned publishing company SZAK, where he oversees translation and publishing projects. In 1997, he joined MorphoLogic first as a system administrator and later became the head of research, contributing to many language technology projects on machine translation, content analysis and information extraction. He left MorphoLogic in early 2005 to work for Kilgray. He is also teaching translation technology at the ELTE University of Budapest.

Gábor Ugray

Gábor is Kilgray’s ‘Renaissance man’ with a mix of interests ranging from linguistics and computer science to photography and translation. He was previously head of development for MorphoLogic’s machine translation solution, in charge of a team of five linguists and developers. He reversed gears and shifted from MT to TM when partnering up with Balázs and István to establish Kilgray. His role in the company is essentially one of a translator: he makes sure Kilgray’s dreams of look and feel are solidified into lines of formal code, and poses those hated down-to-earth technical questions to the dreamers. He won’t stop at talking bytes, and has been diligently learning his bit of Chinese for years.

István Lengyel

István is responsible for the smooth running of day-to-day operations and financing. He has a degree in economics/finances (University of Szeged) and in English translation and interpreting (University of Szeged, too), and has finished his PhD course in translation studies (ELTE University of Budapest). He started his career working for SZAK Publishers as a translator and translation coordinator, and spent a short time working in the film industry (the Hungarian movie production company MAFILM). Then he worked with a British company (John Howell Co. Ltd.) on the writing/localization of two CD-ROMs on money laundering regulations. In 2001 he created Forditas.net, an automatic workflow-based translation company with some former yearmates of his, but that project failed due to support from others. He joined MorphoLogic as R&D coordinator where he saw the need for translation support. In 2004 he founded Kilgray with Balázs and Gábor.

Sándor Papp

Sándor has a degree in economics (from the Budapest School of Foreign Trade) and European business studies (from the Avans Hogeschool, Breda, NL). He is studying right now a mixture of management and electrical engineering at the Technical University of Budapest. Sándor started work as a project manager for Skrivanek and later he became more involved in sales and marketing there. He decided to join Kilgray in December 2007.