All employment relationships to date:

•  2009-2013 – Business mentoring at various accelerators, including Springboard (UK), Seedcamp (Europe), Startup Wise Guys (Estonia), Starcube (Czech Rep), iHUB (Ukraine). I provide tough love and tactical hand-ons help with business strategy, go-to-market, fundraising and hiring
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• 2009-2013 –
  e-commerce projects
  my roles – project management, advisory – building partners’ network, online marketing, PR
• 2007 – 2009 – PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS
  Corporate Finance manager, Prague/London/CEE
  Pre-deal and deal advisory, Support to M&A managers across the CEE region, Search of investment opportunities in CEE for private equity houses, Dealing with management and owners of large multinational and local corporations
• 2005 – 2007 – ING INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT
  Buy-side investment analyst , Prague
  Equity research – blue chip companies in CEE, Equity portfolio management

Professional experience:

• business development

Skills:

• E-commerce development manager with more than ten years experience in financial and business analysis. In deptk knowledge of internet based sales and marketing tools.

References and main professional successes:

• I connect talents with right investors. I identify new rocket-star startups in the CEE region and help them raise funding at right time
• I’m a mentor at Springboard (UK), Seedcamp (Europe) , Startup Wise Guys (Estonia), Starcube (Czech Rep), iHUB (Ukraine). I provide tough love and tactical hand-ons help with business strategy, go-to-market, fundraising and hiring
• I love APIs – I’m the founder of API Mashup Contest (@APImashups) – the biggest API playground in the world – and an investor at Apiary
• I write about startups and stuff I like for TheNextWeb
• I hold MBA from Chicago’s DePaul MBA Alumni
• I worked for ING Investment Management and PwC (M&A)
• I always love to meet/speak to interesting & intelligent people with ideas