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Chief Business Officer, Intesa SanPaolo Cards

Vladimíra Josefiová graduated from the University of Economics in Prague and the Harvard Business School in Boston. As the Director of the Department of Foreign Investment she has also worked at the Ministry of Privatization of the Czech Republic. Since 2006, her career has been associated with the VUB Bank, where she worked in the Board of Directors as a Managing Director of the Department of Human Resources.

Consultant for Egon Zehnder International

He studied at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava and at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He started his career at the Wood & Co. company as a stockbroker and later helped starting up businesses and restructuring companies, and since 2005 has been working for the executive search firm Egon Zehnder International, where he is in charge of managerial talent search in the Czech and Slovak Republic.

Director of Human Resources consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers for the Czech and Slovak Republics

He obtained postgraduate qualifications and scientific PhDr. and PhD. at the Charles University in Prague in sociology, where he currently possesses a position of a lecturer. Branislav Hunčík acts as an advisory director for Human Resources at PricewaterhouseCoopers in the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic and since 2005 he has been working as a regional coordinator of projects aimed at the measuring of return on investment in human capital within Central and Eastern Europe.

Chairman of the Consumer Finance Holding and founder of Joblife portal

He graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Technical University in Kosice. Mr. Kiska is a founder of successful companies named Triangel (1996) and Quatro (1999). In 2006 the companies merged into a holding called Consumer Finance Holding. In 2008 Jaroslav Kiska was nominated for the Manager of the Year 2008 prestigious prize.

CEO and Chairman of the Board of Asseco Solutions

He graduated from the Civil Faculty of Slovak Technical University in Bratislava and holds a professorial Diploma of Management from the City University in Bratislava. In February 1990 he co-founded the DATALOCK company and in May 1991 he took the lead of its management. Currently Mr. Lang sits as a Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of Asseco Solutions. He is also a Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Asseco Solutions, Prague.

Owner of HighChem

Róbert Mistrík has received his engineering degree from the Faculty of Chemical Technology of the Slovak Technical University and subsequently completed his doctoral studies at the University of Vienna. He is a founder of HighChem, a successful company, which he still manages and owns. The results of his work are often presented in professional journals and at international symposia. Róbert Mistrík won a prestigious award called Head of 2008 for the most important innovation.

Researcher at the University of Cambridge

Amir Shirzadi has been working at the University of Cambridge for 15 years. He earned his PhD degree from the University of Cambridge and took several positions within the University. In addition to the current position of the researcher in Cambridge Amir Shirzadi lectures on "The Open University".

Managing Director, Philips India Ltd.

He graduated from the Economics University in Bratislava Faculty of Management. He has built up his career through various economic positions to the independent auditor's post in 1992 - 1993. In 1993 he was promoted to Executive Director at Philips India Ltd., which he successfully holds to today.