Past Years

Year 2021

Jan Růžička

Chief External Affairs Officer, Home Credit Group

Jan Růžička is the head of external relations at Home Credit Group. He lives and works in Hong Kong, where he manages teams in the US, Asia, and Europe responsible for Corporate Affairs, Regulatory, PR, CSR, and ESG. Before coming to Asia, he worked for the Czech government for ten years at the Ministries of Culture and Health and was one of the prominent figures in health reform. Jan Růžička graduated from the University of Cambridge and Charles University and is still in academia, teaching behavioral economics and disruption in finance and healthcare at universities in Asia and Europe.

Nataša Foltánová

Founder, Tierra Verde s.r.o.

Nataša Foltánová started her working career in Canada, where she studied international business. After graduation, she worked as a buyer on an African construction project, and after returning to the Czech Republic, she was at the birth of several microbreweries. In 2008, she founded Tierra Verde, a manufacturing company for eco-friendly cleaning products. From Tierra Verde, which, in her own words, originated directly in her kitchen, she built a company with a turnover of 100 million. In March 2021, she left Tierra Verde and is dedicated to other projects.

Guido Hackl

Country Manager Austria, CZ & SK,
Air France KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

Guido Hackl has worked in the aviation environment for over thirty years, having passed through Lufthansa, Swissair, and Brussels Airlines. Since 2016, he has worked at KLM Royal Dutch Airlines as Country Manager for Austria, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic.

Alena Janotková

Business Relations Manager,
Veolia Czech Republic

Alena Janotková has been working at Veolia for six years as a project manager for business development. She builds on her experience in corporate and strategic communication, PR and business activities. She is responsible for developing new projects and building business relationships with clients. She is interested in CSR topics and values corresponding to the sustainability of development.

Michal Čubrík

Public Affairs Manager CZ/SK,
Coca-Cola HBC

Michal Čubrík is responsible for Coca-Cola HBC's external relations in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. He represents the company in key industry associations in both countries, deals with regulatory issues, and manages strategic sustainability projects. He has many years of experience in diplomacy and the non-profit sector.

Alice Machová

Partner, Climate Change & Sustainability Services,
EY Czech Republic

Alice Machová is a partner in the Accounting Advisory Department of Financial & Accounting Advisory Services (FAAS) and is responsible for developing FAAS services in the Czech Republic and the Central European region. Alice is an expert in CFO agenda and financial accounting. She focuses on digital technologies, financial processes, and accounting standards and devotes herself to non-financial reporting, sustainable development, and CSR.

Nick Archer

British Ambassador
to the Czech Republic

Nick Archer has been the UK Ambassador to the Czech Republic since 2018. Previously, he served as Ambassador to Denmark and High Commissioner to Malta.

Daan Huisinga

Dutch Ambassador
to the Czech Republic

Jukka Pesola

Ambassador of Finland
to the Czech Republic

Tomáš Macků

External Affairs Director,
Ipsos s.r.o.

Tomáš Macků has been working in the market and public opinion research for almost 30 years. Since 2007 he has been with Ipsos, now in the position of External Affairs Director. He is a member of the Czech Management Association, the Czech Marketing Society, the Czech Business Council for Sustainable Development, the PR Club, etc. He is responsible for PR, development projects, communication, and relationships with significant clients and focuses on CSR and sustainable development.

Sandra Feltham

Moderator,
Business Leaders Forum

Sandra Feltham is a leading expert in social responsibility and sustainable development in the Czech Republic. She is the President of the Business Leaders Forum and owns Flagship, a responsible business consulting agency operating in Central and Eastern Europe.

Sandra also works as an expert juror in the Green Brands Czech Republic competition, is an external lecturer in the MBA program at the Austrian Ferdinand Porsche University, and has been involved in the CSR and sustainable development field for more than ten years. She is certified by the University of Cambridge in Sustainability Business Management, the Global Reporting Initiative in writing non-financial reports, and the British IEMA in environmental management.

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Year 2020

Renata Horáková

Member of the Board of Directors and Head of Business Administration, Oncomed manufacturing

Renata Horáková

Renata Horáková is Head of Business Administration and a Member of the Board of Directors of oncomed manufacturing. She has been with the company for many years. In 2009, she ensured the continuation of the production of cytostatic injections through a foreign investor and became part of the management. As part of her role, she is in charge of all non-technical services: legal affairs, finance, HR, PR, CSR, IT, and OSH.

Martin Diviš

Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of Kooperativa

Martin Diviš

Martin Diviš connected his professional life with the Kooperativa insurance company. He joined the board in 1995 and has been Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO since 2008. At the same time, he is the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of ČPP and is the head of the VIG ČR Group. Since 2008, he has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the ČKP and Vice-President of the CAP. In 2013, he was elected president of the CAP.

Gabriela Bechynská

Corporate & Government Affairs Manager, Mondelez Europe

Gabriela Bechynská

Gabriela Bechynská is a member of the management of Mondelez in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary. She holds the position of Corporate & Government Affairs Manager. She is in charge of corporate communication, an integral part of which is informing the public about sustainability projects.

Tomáš Macků

External Affairs Director,
Ipsos s.r.o.

Tomáš Macků

Roman Grametbauer

Manager Sustainability,
Philip Morris ČR, a.s.

Roman Grametbauer

Roman Grametbauer works as a Sustainability Manager in the External Affairs department of Philip Morris ČR, JSC. Previously, he worked there as a Corporate Affairs Executive. He has experience in external relations and communication positions in the tobacco, armaments, and mining sectors.

Miroslav Kundrata

Director of Strategic Development,
Partnership Foundation

Miroslav Kundrata

After 1989, Miroslav Kundrata significantly contributed to developing the environmentally oriented non-profit sector. He participated in the preparation of the program of the American foundations Environmental Partnership for Central Europe. Since 1994 he has been the director of the Brno Partnership Foundation. Here he advocates the continuous development of the Foundation's activities and strategic planning.

Ján Kondáš

Head of Communications
TESCO Stores ČR, a.s.

Ján Kondáš

Ján Kondáš has been working as Head of Communications at the British Tesco chain in the Czech Republic since 2016. He is responsible for external and internal communication, social responsibility activities, and government relations. In the past, he gained experience in corporate communication and strategic consulting from other business segments.