Martin Novák
Member of the Board of Directors
Member of the Board of Directors since May 21, 2008
Chief of the Finance Division since January 1, 2016
Chief Executive Officer’s Deputy for Operations
Martin Novák graduated from the University of Economics in Prague and started his career as a tax advisor at PriceWaterhouse in 1994. From here he moved on to Česká rafinérská, where he worked from 1996 to 2001. He spent the next 5 years at Conoco in Houston, ConocoPhillips in London and ConocoPhillips in Prague. In 2007 he undertook the Executive MBA programme at the University of Pittsburgh.
He has been working in the CEZ Group since 2006. Since 1 January 2008, he has been the Finance Division Director of CEZ Group. Since May 2008, he has been the Member of the Board of Directors. He was Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors (20th October 2011 - 31th December 2019). In the course of his employment with the CEZ Group, he has managed to accelerate considerably the reporting of results, simplify many processes, reduce the number of Group accounting departments and improve the efficiency of provided services with a direct impact on cost reduction. Since January 2016, he has been the Chief Financial and Operations Officer.