Born in London in 1964, Mr Woolf was educated at Westminster and the London School of Economics before qualifying with Price Waterhouse. After relocating to Prague in 1990, he founded the private investment company Flow East, which owns a portfolio of prime commercial and residential properties, a non-performing debt company in a joint venture with Goldman Sachs, the Hotel Jalta and the Plaza Alta Hotel and a chain of centrally located retail shops called Blue Praha. Mr Woolf has acquired a wealth of knowledge in the Czech business market and is a regular contributor to the letters page of the Financial Times.
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Jiří Krejča
G4S Security Services
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Jiri Krejca is the Chairman of the Board and Managing Director of G4S Security Services CZ, a subsidiary of Group 4 Securicor, one of the world’s leading providers of cash and security services. He has spent the last 24 years in a variety of international business environments, both in the Czech Republic and abroad, and has launched a number of global brands on the Czech market.
Before joining Group 4, Mr Krejca was the Managing Director of Travelex Czech Republic, having worked for Thomas Cook prior to its foreign exchange sector being integrated with Travelex in 2001. Previous to that, he worked for PZO Strojexport, including spending some time in Iraq, Kuwait, UAE and Jordan.
Mr Krejca is Czech and is fluent in English and German. He is married with five children.
Michael Al-Nassir
Pedersen & Partners
Michael Al-Nassir is a Partner of Pedersen & Partners and is in charge of developing the firm's presence in Middle East & Africa. He has been in the executive search industry in Central and Eastern Europe since 1996 and has handled over 300 searches. He has completed senior management recruitments across all sectors, but has focused in particular on companies in the technology sector, within which he is recognised as one of the most experienced consultants in the emerging markets. For several years, Michael Al-Nassir was the Vice-Chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce in Prague, is one of the founding Board members of the International Business Forum, and has a number of Non-Executive roles in businesses and associations. Mr. Al-Nassir has spoken at a number of conferences on management and coaching issues. Before entering the executive search industry, Mr. Al-Nassir worked for six years in IT consulting in the UK, following his BSc studies at the Polytechnic of Central London. Michael Al-Nassir speaks fluent English, French and Czech, and can communicate in Arabic.
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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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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.
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