Bert Kornyei

Born in Vienna, Austria of a Viennese mother and a Hungarian father, Bert was raised in Budapest, and was caught there with his family by the lowering of the iron curtain. During the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, 13 year old Bert and his family escaped by foot, finding refuge in a small Austrian border town. They were able to get sponsorship to the US and ended up in southern California where Bert continued school through college. The military then beckoned in the form of a draft notice, but Bert became a “90 day wonder” naval officer in Newport. After four years plying the Pacific Ocean as communications officer of Destroyer Division 32, he returned to civilian life and UCLA’s MBA program. After earning his CPA, he held financial positions in several companies, his favorite as Controller of 20th Century Fox films in Beverly Hills counting Star Wars dollars. In 1981 Bert and family moved to Massachusetts and eventually he followed the entrepreneurial bent with which he was cursed. Nothing satisfied him until he joined with Bob Gleason as The Multihull Source.

Bert learned to sail in college and honed his skills on the water in the Navy. Work interfered with sailing until life in the multihull business, and Bert has been trying to make up for lost time ever since.

Bert lives in Wareham with his wife Catherine and their Pulis Dundi and Pogo.