Kalman Magyar has operated as a trusted business advisor and professor for nearly three decades, utilizing his international perspective as a citizen of the United States, Canada, and Hungary. He has provided strategic insight on corporate and transactional issues to companies of all sizes in a wide array of industries looking to make a meaningful impact locally and globally, leveraging his extensive cross-border background, organizational knowledge, and real-world legal experience.
Kalman is a co-founding principal of Core Legacy Inc., a private Florida corporation which guides and invests in projects and people focused on establishing solid foundational cores and building lasting legacies around the world. He is Core Legacy Inc.’s Legal Director and oversees the business affairs of its portfolio.
Within academia, Kalman has acted as a Supervisor and Judge for the business-oriented upper year moot court course for the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, routinely ranked among the world’s top ten law schools. He also taught business law courses at universities and colleges since the 1990’s, most recently as an Adjunct Professor of Business Law at Keiser University (Naples Campus), Florida’s largest private, not-for-profit university. He previously taught at Seneca College in Toronto (Canadian Business Law); at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey (Civil Litigation for the Paralegal Studies Program); and guest lectured at New School University, Department of Fashion Design (New York City).
Kalman has taken on legacy-building leadership and advisory roles for sporting organizations, athletes and sports executives over decades. He currently serves as an advisor to FC Naples, the first professional soccer team in Naples, Florida, which plays in the United Soccer League One, the third tier in the U.S. soccer pyramid. He previously spent many years on the Board of Directors of Toronto High Park Football Club, one of the largest community soccer clubs in the Greater Toronto Area. He eventually took on the pivotal role of Vice President of Football as he helped guide the Club in joining the Ontario Player Development League (OPDL) and receiving Ontario Soccer’s Club Excellence Award – Gold Level, while overseeing the building of the Club’s technical and player development programs. He is also a Soccer for Life U13+ youth competitive coach certified by Ontario Soccer, and coached and managed competitive youth teams at the regional level; a number of the players he worked with moved on to playing at the semi-professional, university and college levels.
Kalman volunteers as a board member on health-related and folklore not-for-profit organizations. He has served on the Board and Legal Committee of the American Hungarian Chamber of Commerce (New York), and as a Board of Governors member for the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce in Canada. In 2021, he was awarded “Businessman of the Year” by the Hungarian Canadian Business Association.