Jan Chalupa
Jan specialises in private equity and venture capital. Prior to founding TARPAN Partners, he worked in management positions in European financial institutions, mostly in the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom. Jan has experience in managing individual projects at various phases, including greenfield projects and restructuring. His expertise includes structuring and managing portfolios and funds, investment banking, capital markets, private banking and insurance.

​Michal Kudej
Michal specialises in corporate finance, investment structures and restructuring processes. He co-founded TARPAN Partners in 2010. Since 1991, in his various roles he has acted as a consultant on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions and other business combinations, and has also traded on the capital market and invested into new projects. Recently he has been involved with major restructuring projects both as part of insolvency proceedings and outside them. In 2016, he became a member of the academic board of the Harry Pollak Centre for Restructuring and Insolvency, part of the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of Economics, Prague, where he covers corporate crisis and insolvency and its resolution. In addition, he teaches turnaround management for the Faculty’s Department of Strategy. He also teaches turnaround management for the Faculty’s Department of Strategy.

​Tomas Kozubek
Tomas specialises in financial and operational project management. He formerly worked for McKinsey & Company, providing consultancy for the senior management of large corporations, and before that as a project manager in corporate finance and private equity. He has more than 20 years of experience with creating and implementing strategies, restructuring, M&A and the optimisation of company functions.

​Ludek Skoupil
Ludek applies the experience he has gained in private equity and risk capital, where his long-term focus has been questions of corporate governance, creating and managing structures and M&A. Prior to joining TARPAN Partners, Luděk worked in senior positions in international companies operating in financial services, private equity and risk capital, where he specialised in legal issues and risk management.

​Daniel Hribal
​Daniel is an expert in restructuring and revitalising companies, turnaround management, avoiding credit risk and resolving legally complicated situations in companies. During his banking carrier he worked on many projects and transactions in the area of corporate finance, syndicated loans and structured finance, M&A and trade finance, real estate transaction and financing of public and municipal sphere. He also participated in major reorganization projects and insolvency solutions.  Daniel is a member of the academic board of the Harry Pollak Centre for Restructuring and Insolvency, part of the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of Economics, Prague, and an arbitrator at the Arbitration Court attached to the Economic Chamber of the CR and Agricultural Chamber of the CR.​

​Tomas Petrzela
Tomas specialises in M&A and financing. He spent large part of his professional career abroad, mainly in Asia. He began his career at KPMG Singapore, where he focused on audit and assurances services, special situations, and due diligence. He previously managed corporate development for companies in the Czech Republic and Asia with focus on M&A, investment financing, strategy and control of the companies in their respective investment portfolios. Tomáš has experience with transactions in the Czech Republic and abroad, deal negotiation, due diligence, fundraising, corporate strategy, and finance.

Petr Bukacek
​Petr is a Senior Associate at Tarpan Partners with a previous experience in M&A, private equity, and strategic advisory. He started his career at Ernst & Young, where he worked on strategic business plans and financing of transactions or assessment and advisory on investment opportunities. Subsequently, he worked on a range of transactions from multinationals to start-ups. He was also involved in the acquisition of a major Czech-Slovak retail group into the portfolio of an investment fund and the development of the subsequent strategy for its management and further development.

​Ladislav Selepa
​Ladislav expanded the analytical team of Tarpan Partners in 2019 after previous work experience at the NSG Morison advisory team, where he specialized in the valuation of companies and real estate and participated in several significant transactions with an international overlap. He graduated from the Faculty of Finance and Accounting at the University of Economics in Prague. As part of his studies, he spent a year in Norway at two prestigious universities BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo and NHH Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen. He also completed a student internship in the US for the Southwestern Advantage focused on business development and leadership.

​Tomas Vesely
​​Tomas joined TARPAN Partners in 2023 as an M&A analyst. He gained his professional experience as a lead controller at Roche Pharmaceuticals Diagnostics, where he was responsible for the division’s financial reporting, preparation of budgets and forecasts, as well as financial valuation of new business opportunities. Tomáš gained his bachelor’s diploma in Economics in the US graduating from Lawrence University.
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