Jo Weaver
JWA Prague
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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 appointed a judge for the ‘Woman of the Year’ in 2007 and will be on the judging panel again in 2008. 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.
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.
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.
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 one child and speaks fluent English and French as well as reasonable Czech.
Daniel Hron
Mid Europe management consulting
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Mr Hron, Czech by birth, grew up in Canada and graduated with an undergraduate degree in economics. After four years of work experience in the management of elevator companies, he returned to Prague and worked for Schindler Elevators. He went on to spend two years in the company’s head office in Switzerland and three years as CEO of the Slovak operations. Mr Hron completed a Masters in Business Administration and has been an executive search consultant since 2001.
He has served as a board member of the Czech Management Center in Celakovice as well as a supervisory board member for both local and international ventures in the Czech Republic and CEE region. Today he is a managing partner of Mid Europe management consulting.
Gerald Cary-Elwes
European Renaissance
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With a background in urban regeneration and economic development in the UK and in many other countries, Gerald established European Renaissance s.r.o., in the Czech Republic over four years ago. Its main activity is the formation of the Future Cities Forum, a one-stop revitalisation agency to bring together all those involved in the future sustainable development of towns, cities and neighbourhoods worldwide. Gerald has also worked in the retail sector (including Harrods and Harvey Nichols), and then as a Conference Director, organising events nationally and internationally, on freight transportation, property, urban regeneration and food. This included conferences to accompany trade fairs and exhibitions in London, Madrid, Brussels, the Middle East, Chicago and Singapore.
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