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 Kuděj
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.

Tomáš Kozubek
Tomáš 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.

Luděk Skoupil
Luděk 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.

Michal Palata
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.

​Tomáš Petržela 
Tomáš 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.

Ladislav Šelepa
​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.

Irena Grůšová
Irena specialises in company administration and project management. She works with both the TARPAN Managers and TARPAN Partners teams. During her career, she has been involved in a number of large projects for multinational companies operating in finance, medicine and construction, including the MEDICEM Group, OVB Allfinanz, Credit Suisse Life & Pensions Česká republika and Indu Light Praha. She has a master’s degree in international relations and European studies from the Metropolitan University Prague and completed study placements in the United States and Germany. She joined TARPAN Partners in 2016.