Alan Svoboda at the head of CEZ power company trade

From 1 April, 2004, Alan Svoboda will enter on the function of Executive Director Sales and will thus replace Pavel Hejkal. Ladislav Kriz, Press Officer, CEZ, a. s.

Alan Svoboda

Job Experience::

McKinsey & Company, Praha (1/00 - up to now, 8/96 - 3/98)

- global management consulting firm advising the top management of leading companies on issues of strategy

Associate Partner (until 12/02 Project Manager)

· He focused on work with clients from energy, gas manufacture, petrochemical and production sectors

· He was responsible for projects and knowledge development in above-mentioned fields in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

· He was a member of the leading energy team of the European expert group McKinsey, where he was responsible especially for knowledge development in distribution, trading and risk management

· He took active part in European petrochemistry and basic material expert teams

· He worked in a number of McKinsey offices in the long term - besides Prague also in Madrid, Amsterdam, Lisbon, DĂĽsseldorf, Moscow, and shortly in Warsaw and London

· Besides others he led energy project focusing on the following: market development, strategy planning, general company restructuring management, integration after fusions, trading, product development and sales procedures, governance assessment, risk management, improvement of cost efficiency, optimization of assets.

Zapadoceska energetika, a.s. (West Bohemian Power Company), Pilsner (4/98 - 1/00) - energy distributional company

Director of Finance and a Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors

· He was responsible for financial and management accounting, planning, controlling, treasury, taxes, insurance etc.

· He managed general company projects oriented on company transformation, changes in key processes, governing agenda, adoption of MIS and others, aimed at improvement of the company performance and its preparation for market liberalization¨

Merrill Lynch a Commerce Bank, Kansas City, USA (6/95 - 7/96)

· Practical experience during studies

Univestity/postgradual education and training:

Master of Business Administration (MBA), finance

University of Missouri Kansas City, USA (94 - 96)Master of Arts in Economics (MA)

University of Missouri Kansas City, USA (94 - 96)

Information and financial management (Ing.)

The Faculty of Applied Science, ZapadoÄŤeska univerzita PlzeĹ? (West Bohemian University, Pilsner (91 - 98)

Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)

Association of Investment Management and Research (96 - 99)

Professional training at McKinsey & Company

· Professional: energy, gas manufacture, petrochemical industry, production sector

· Functional: restructuring, risk management, assessment, management after fusions etc.

· Advisory: project management, communication, team work, presentations etc.

Public activities

· He lectured on energy development, liberalization and risk management at a number of conferences

Languages: English, German - work experience

Hobbies: Sport flying (pilot licence), yachting, tennis, skiing, cycling

30. 3. 2004