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Peter Muzila Joins FOS Board

Friends of Slovakia is happy to welcome Peter Muzila to its Board of Directors. Peter is Honorary Consul of the Slovak Republic for the six states of New England. He has already been serving FOS for several years as master of our website, a service that is greatly appreciated.

Peter received his education in Bratislava and Vienna, obtaining a Master of Engineering in Information Systems from the Slovak Technical University. He did further studies in business information systems, management and marketing at the Economics University in Bratislava and at two Austrian universities, including the University of Vienna.

Shortly after he finished university studies in 1994 he co-founded Allaire Corp., a high tech company in Newton, MA. He was the chief architect for the e-commerce division, and in that capacity he did the strategic planning and led teams through four major product releases. Allaire, a publicly traded company with 700+ employees and annual revenues of $130 million, merged with Macromedia, Inc. in 2001, and Peter stayed there one more year. At the present time, he functions as a private investor, conducting research and analysis of seed investment opportunities in the high tech field, and then funding promising firms.

He is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Czech and Slovak Association in Boston. He also serves on the council of the Museum of Fine Arts and as an Inner Circle Member of Bank of America's Celebrity Series, both in Boston. He has a strong interest in Slovak art and is acquainted personally with a number of Slovak painters and photographers. He organized an art exhibit at Harvard University.

Peter moved to the U.S. in 1994 but his parents still live in Nitra. He and his wife, Alyson, are busy raising their two sons, Lukas, 6, and Alexander, 2. But he does make time for his two favorite sports: tennis and golf.