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Michal specialises in investment projects and consulting on strategy, corporate finance and restructuring. Previously he worked for Enterprise Investors, one of the largest private equity funds in Central Europe, and McKinsey & Company, a global consulting firm for senior management. Michal has experience in strategic and operational planning and management, developing and restructuring companies, and motivational structures and mergers and acquisitions. His experience covers a number of sectors, including retail, financial services, consumer goods, energy and media.
From 2008–2012, Michal was the Enterprise Investors representative for the Czech Republic (he opened its Prague office in 2009), which is one of the largest private equity funds in Central Europe and has invested sums of EUR 20–100 million in corporate acquisitions (in the Czech Republic, e.g., Kofola and AVG). He was responsible for identifying and analysing new investment opportunities, and for managing and overseeing select portfolios of companies in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Michal mainly specialised in retail, consumer goods, financial services, media and construction.
From 2004–2007, he was a consultant at McKinsey & Company, which provides consulting services for senior management at major companies. As a member of Corporate Finance & Strategy, he focused on projects concerning corporate and product strategy, financial planning and management, motivation systems and M&A in a range of sectors (insurance, media, the automobile industry, banking, energy) and countries (the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Italy, Germany, Russia).
Prior to 2004, Michal had an internship at HSBC and was a senator’s assistant in the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic.
Michal has a Ph.D. in economics (1998–2004, Charles University Faculty of Social Sciences), an LL.M. in law (1998–2005, Charles University Faculty of Law) and an MBA in international trade (2001–2002, ESC Rennes, France).
