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He has more then 17 years of professional experience in the investment industry (PPF, Morgan Stanley, Brookdale Group) and more then 11 years of investment experience is startup investments. He focuses on discovering and investing in innovative technology startups with high growth potential in the CEE and SEE regions and on helping the startups to reach full rollout and to grow internationally, with particular focus on fintech, healthcare, education, smart city, Big Data and IoT/IoE sectors. He holds MBA from London Business School in Entrepreneurship and Private Equity and MA from John Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies in International Relations and International Finance.
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He has more than twelve years of management role experience (CzechInvest, Jazykový Institut, IDE, VŠE), as well as ten years of private business management experience. He is passionate about developing and supporting an entrepreneurship environment in the Czech Republic. He is the co-founder of the Institute for Development of Entrepreneurship. In 2007, he founded Vodafone Idea of the Year (the oldest start-up competition in Czechia). Martin had been a member of the Department of Management at the University of Economics in Prague for ten years. He is a Board Member of xPORT VŠE Business Accelerator.
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Klára has more than 20 years experiences in the auditing, she was employed at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Switzerland and Deloitte Czech Republic as Senior Manager. She was involved mainly in financial business – building societies, factoring, investment funds and leasing companies. Last couple of years she was mainly specialized on real estate – developers, asset owners and hotels. Afterwards she was several years as CFO in e-commerce companies - CZC.cz, Chytrý Honza, bezrealitky.cz. Klara graduated with Master in University of Economics Prague – international relationship and banking, gained certificate of ACCA and is registered auditor at Chamber of Auditors.
Worked as startup analyst at Pioneers in Vienna where he sourced early stage projects for companies such as Cisco, Erste Bank, PwC, Telefonica, Konica Minolta and others. In 2015, he worked as a program coordinator within the World Bank’s Investment Readiness Program for Western Balkan Countries. He studied International Business Management at Northwestern University in Basel (FHNW Schweiz), Finance, Accounting & Taxation at the University of Applied Sciences in Vienna (FHWien) and International Trade in Post-Soviet countries at Saint Petersburg's state university.
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Michal has more than eight years of professional experience spanning law, portfolio operations and investment management. Before joining J&T Ventures, he worked as Portfolio Manager for Eos Capital in Namibia where he also acted as Head of Strategy and Operations for one of its portfolio companies. Prior to this he was on the board of Westminster Group, a CEE-focused real estate investor. He started his career at Brož & Sokol & Novák, a top-tier law firm in the Czech Republic. Michal read law and legal science at Masaryk University, holds a JD from Charles University and an MBA from ESADE. Besides his native Czech, he speaks English and Spanish. Michal is a member of the Czech Bar Association and an avid equestrian polo player.
One of her first great work experience was to lead the Secretariat of the Sales Director of OKD, a.s. in Prague. Since 2010, she has worked as an Office Manager and Personal Assistant to the Executive Officer of MTX Group, a.s. She joined the expanding J&T Ventures team in the fall of 2019 and is ready to accept any challenge, together with the team.
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David lived, worked and studied in four different countries. He gained his experience mainly within the consulting group Ernst & Young in Switzerland, where he was part of the EMEIA International Tax and Transaction team with the main focus on the Financial Services industry. His specialization is in valuations, pricing of various transactions, achieving operating model effectiveness as well as in the value chain analysis. He holds MSc in International Business Tax Economics from Tilburg University, Master´s degree in International Business from the University of Economics in Prague as well as the certification of Financial Modeling and Valuation Analyst. He loves conquering mountains as well as helping the innovative companies to live up their full potential.
Joined J&T Ventures as a fresh graduate. During his studies he was applying a holistic approach by gaining the working experiences from economic think tank (INESS), tech startup (Pygmalios) and the multinational corporation (AT&T). He did his master’s in business studies at the University of Bologna (Italy) with a semester at Ghent University (Belgium) and the bachelor’s degree in international business at University of Economics in Bratislava (Slovakia). He is passionate about tackling the commercialization conundrum.
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Hussein is a founding partner of Hoxton Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm in London. He was an angel investor in several early stage startups. He also helps the UK government with their technology policy. He was formerly with Accel Partners, where he focused on consumer internet, financial technology and software investments. Hussein joined Accel from Microsoft, where he held several strategy and product management roles.
Kurt is Partner of SEEDS of Innovation a Taiwanase based Medical/Bio-Tech focused on Venture Capital. He focuses on investments in the Medical/Bio technology, Green Technology and Innovated Service system. He has extensive experience related to Venture/PE investment and is currently on the boards of Everglory Holdings. Managing Director of EarthGen Materials Corp, and Chief Investment Consultant in Evergreen Marine Group. Prior to Seeds Kurt held key executive possitions at Lehman Brothers/Nomura.
Based in New York. Amit Vemuri is a successful entrepreneuer and investor focused on building large web-enabled businesses. His last start up was bootstrapped and sold to Intuit, financial software company based in Silicon Valley. Prior to that, Amit was part of the management team of a venture backed, travel startup that was sold to Sabre, one of the world´s largest travel technology solutions providers. His skills are focused on either helping young companies reach their product market fit or growing a business.
He has been active in the area of the financial and capital markets for more than 20 years. In the J&T Group, our team leader holds the position of the Investment Banking Manager of J&T Banka responsible for issuance of bonds, structured finance and M&A advisory. He graduated from the University of Economy in Prague, majoring in Finance. During his studies, he participated in study abroad projects in Denmark and the U.S.A. He has been granted the title CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst), and he is a founding member of the Czech institute of the CFA Society, which determines the global standard for investments, knowledge and ethical standards.
He has more then 17 years of professional experience in the investment industry (PPF, Morgan Stanley, Brookdale Group) and more then 11 years of investment experience is startup investments. He focuses on discovering and investing in innovative technology startups with high growth potential in the CEE and SEE regions and on helping the startups to reach full rollout and to grow internationally, with particular focus on fintech, healthcare, education, smart city, Big Data and IoT/IoE sectors. He holds MBA from London Business School in Entrepreneurship and Private Equity and MA from John Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies in International Relations and International Finance.
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He has more than twelve years of management role experience (CzechInvest, Jazykový Institut, IDE, VŠE), as well as ten years of private business management experience. He is passionate about developing and supporting an entrepreneurship environment in the Czech Republic. He is the co-founder of the Institute for Development of Entrepreneurship. In 2007, he founded Vodafone Idea of the Year (the oldest start-up competition in Czechia). Martin had been a member of the Department of Management at the University of Economics in Prague for ten years. He is a Board Member of xPORT VŠE Business Accelerator.
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Petr studied economics and management at the Czech Technical University in Prague. He worked in sales and management positions in retail, distribution and telecommunications. At the end of the nineties he initiated one of the most successful online stores in Central Europe – KASA.cz. Since 2005, held senior management positions at Nokia as Sales Director for Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia, and later General Manager for Czech Republic and Slovakia. Since 2012 he works as CEO of Pilulka Corp., one of the fastest growing pharmacy retailer in central Europe (www.pilulka.cz, www.pilulka.sk, www.pilulka.ro). He is fully engaged in company management since 2012. He is also member of YPO (Young Presidents’ Organization).
