Ms Weaver is Founder and Managing Director of JWA Prague s.r.o., one of Central Europe’s leading marketing and PR agencies for B2B, finance and real estate, operating in the Czech Republic since 1992. As Chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce in the Czech Republic from the beginning of 2004 until October 2007, she was the longest standing Chamber Chairman in the history of the Chamber. Ms Weaver was voted as one of the top five foreign businesswomen in the Czech Republic in 2001, and nominated for the "Women of the Year" awards in the category of "marketing and communications" in 2005 and 2006. She was a judge for the ‘Women of the Year’ competition in 2007 and 2008 and now heads up the IBF’s Women in Business Group. She is a frequent speaker at seminars and conferences on business and public relations in Central Europe and serves on the Brand Council of Superbrands in the Czech Republic.
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Monika Frankova
Expat Center, Ceska sporitelna
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Monika Frankova was born and raised in the Czech Republic. In early 1990’s she was involved in founding and developing the Prague subsidiary of the Californian Investment Company as well as preparing its investment and mutual funds for coupon privatization. In 2001 she joined Česká Spořitelna to work directly for the CEO, Jack Stack. Since 2003 she has been co-managing the Česká Spořitelna Expat Center project – a unique tool for providing comfortable banking services in three major languages to expatriate clients living and working in the Czech Republic. She became the head of the Expat Center in 2005.
Monika was a board member of the Expat Business Association from 2005 until its merger with the BBF in 2008 and has also been a member of the administrative board of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in the Czech Republic since 2005.
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Jan Grozdanovic
JGA Legal
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Born in Czechoslovakia in 1959, Mr Grozdanovic studied law at Prague's famous Charles University before defecting to the United Kingdom in 1980. From 1981-1985 he attended the London School of Economics, taking articles at Gregory, Rowcliffe & Co., and in 1988 qualifying as an English Solicitor. He spent one year at City of London firm Berwin Leighton, 6 years at the international firms of Baker & McKenzie and Allen & Overy, and, finally, 11 years at Seddons Solicitors, the last two as Managing Partner of their Prague Office, before opening JGA Legal in 2006. Mr Grozdanovic was admitted to practice law in the Czech Republic as an advocate in 1995 and is presently the only dual-qualified English and Czech solicitor in the world. He was a founder of the Association for Foreign Investment in the Czech Republic, is Chairman of the British Czech and Slovak Law Association of the United Kingdom, and was a member of the Board of the British Chamber of Commerce from 1997-2000 and again from 2003 until 2006. He is a frequent public speaker on legal aspects of doing business in the Czech Republic.
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Jonathan Hallett
Cushman & Wakefield
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Jonathan Hallett has over 15 years of international working experience in Brussels, Paris, London and Prague. He has been a partner in Cushman & Wakefield since 2001 and is currently the Managing Partner of C&W’s operations in the Czech and Slovak Republics, with overall responsibility for 112 people. He has successfully offered development, leasing and property management advice to some of the biggest names in the international corporate world and has helped to establish some of the leading retail brands presently operating on the Czech market.
Cushman & Wakefield has earned numerous awards under Mr Hallett’s management, including “Best Brand in Practice for the Central European Region” and several years as “Czech Real Estate Agency of the Year.”
Mr Hallett is married with two children and speaks fluent English and French as well as reasonable Czech.
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Greg Gibb
Presidia Consult
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Greg Gibb, is a Yorkshire man, proud father of three children and is of British nationality.
He has attained over 25 years' experience in the professional property market both as a developer and as an agent. He has worked in the UK as a developer with Revival Properties specialising in out-of-town supermarket retail schemes. As an agent with Donaldsons Chartered Surveyors in their commercial department, acting for and advising institutions, developers and private clients. Greg entered the CEE property market over 5 years ago and joined the agency CERES Group in Prague as Director, head of the Investment Division and one of its principal shareholders. The CERES Group was the first residential agency in the Czech Republic to win CNBC International Property Awards in 2007.
At the beginning of 2009 he cofounded Presidia Consult with his Partner Ulrike Schneider, a real estate investment and development advisory and agency for the Central European region based in Prague.
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Martin Howlings
Expats.cz
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Martin Howlings is Founder and Managing Director of the web portal Expats.cz, the mission of which is to help expats adapt to life in the Czech Republic by means of a comprehensive web portal and offering such services as a business directory, discussion forums, classified ads, entertainment and much more.
Before coming to Prague, Martin used his background in graphic design to become one of the four founding partners of Engine, which is now one of the UK’s leading design firms, where he was also responsible for website development for key clients.
Now celebrating 10 years living and working in the Czech Republic, Martin is looking forward to getting more involved with the IBF as a board member. Moreover, he would like to give back to the business community all of the expertise and know-how he has learned along the way in the hopes that he can help others to grow and develop their companies.
Martin is happily married with two beautiful children.
Michael Stimson is an individual member of the IBF, one of the founding members through a former association with an SME company.
Michael has over 20 years experience working in Central and Eastern Europe, being based in the Czech Republic. Michael has worked for a number of large IT companies in the past, starting up operations in the region and managing diverse sales and marketing teams across various countries. Building on experience from companies such as Oracle, Siebel Systems and Microsoft, Michael is involved in business consulting for customers who wish to improve their sales and customer service processes.
Currently, Michael is a Vice President of the Prague Society for International Cooperation; working in support of governments, institutions and the private sector on issues of particular importance to Central and Eastern Europe, where talents, skills and energy have yet to be fully realized.
Michael is married to Olga with a small son, Marek.
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