Owner of CE Industries, Member of the Supervisory Board
Jaroslav Strnad is a Czech entrepreneur, founder of Czechoslovak Group (CSG) and CE Industries (CEI). He started his business in the 1990s and built the industrial holding CSG from scratch, gradually incorporating prominent Czech and Slovak companies from the automotive, aerospace, defense, and railway industries. A key milestone was acquiring the well-known Czech automotive company Tatra in 2013, which he and his co-shareholder René Matera quickly brought back from the crisis into the black.
show more show less
Chairman of the Board, CEO of CE Industries
The manager with extensive experience in complex restructuring projects is a business economics and management graduate at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Mines and Technology in Ostrava. He worked as the Chief Economic Officer of ZKL, a.s. and a member of the Board of Directors of its subsidiaries, where he financially managed a group of eight companies and three foreign affiliates in South America.
show more show less
ENG Member of the Board, Chief Financial Officer
Finance expert, ACCA member, and statutory auditor Jiří Rabiec graduated in economics and law in business from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Mining and Metallurgy in Ostrava. Since 2013, he has worked at PwC in the audit services department, mainly for clients in the industrial production, railway, automotive, logistics services, and energy sectors.
show more show less
Member of the Board, Investment Director, FMCG Division
A graduate of the Gymnasium in Veľký Krtíš, Slovakia, he has spent his entire career in the food and FMCG industry, both as a freelancer and for large corporations. He worked in the brewery group Heineken Slovensko, a.s., and for several years he worked as a sales manager at Karlovarské minerální vody, a.s.
show more show less
Member of the Board of Directors, Group Human Resources Directo
Experienced manager with more than 25 years of experience in corporate strategy, HR, governance and compliance. She spent most of her professional career with LINET Group, where she worked for 18 years as Group Vice President for Human Resources. She also worked on projects at the Technology Center of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and at Kaufland. She co-founded the Linetka corporate nursery and participated in a number of independent initiatives. She believes that good leadership starts with oneself – that is why she supports leaders in their search for authenticity and the courage to change.
show less
