Gellert Dornay serves as Director for Ceylon Bancorporation, Inc., assisting the Management Team in strategic direction and governance. Gellert starting roasting coffee for Java Trading Co. at the age of 19 and took on various roles as he helped grow the company over the following 15 years to a leader in specialty coffee across the US and parts of Europe and Asia.

He subsequently co-founded a mortgage bank, Axia Home Loans, and led the company for ten years in contributing to the rebuilding of the residential mortgage marketplace. Gellert has a strong affinity for principled entrepreneurship which led to the decision to turn Axia over to the employees through an Employee Stock Ownership Plan.

Gellert also serves on numerous profit and non-profit boards and is interested in promoting the dignity of every human person. He and his wife Elizabeth home school their 10 kids on Mercer Island, Washington.