Audit Committee

Chairman

Petr Kříž is a consulting partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he has been working at senior management positions since 1991. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Business at the University of Economics in Prague and the British ACCA professional training. He focuses on audits and consulting for banks and other financial institutions, areas of accounting methodology, regulation, public policy and macroeconomics. Between 2001 and 2004, he held the position of the President of the Chamber of Auditors of the Czech Republic and in 2015 and 2016 also the President of Accountacy Europe (Federation of European Accounting Auditors). Petr Kříž is the recipient of the 2008 ACCA Annual Award for the Development of the Finance and Accounting Profession in Europe. Currently, he is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Charles University, Vice-Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of Economics in Prague, a member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Finance and Accounting of the University of Economics in Prague, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Transparency International Czech Republic, and a member of the working group for the preparation of the new Accounting Act at the Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic.

Member

Graduated the Financial and Administrative College, major: finance and financial services with focus at investment banking. He started his career in local office of information and rating agency Dun & Bradstreet, where he acted as key account manager for Czech Republic and Slovakia for the sector of financial services and international corporations. In the field of risk management, he profiled himself since 2001 in the leasing company CAC Leasing, a.s., in the position of risk manager for the field of leasing financing of machines and equipment. He started his career in banking, precisely in internal audit in 2006 in Česká spořitelna, a.s., where he took the position of internal auditor and where he continued in the position of deputy division manager of the division of internal audit of subsidiary companies of the group of Česká spořitelna. Since 2015 he held the position of head of department of internal audit in Česká exportní banka, a.s. In march of 2016, he was elected the vice-chairman of the board of Podpůrný a garanční lesnický a rolnický fond with authorization to run the division of risk management, operations and legal. From 2006, he is a member of the Czech Institute of internal auditors.

Member

He graduated from the University of Economics in Prague. He began his career as an auditor immediately after his studies at Deloitte, in which he became a partner in 2000 and dealt with leading the audit team, contact with clients and the application of auditing or accounting regulations. In addition, he has worked on other accounting projects. He also worked briefly as an audit manager at Coopers & Lybrand. He left Deloitte in 2015 and holds a position on the audit committee of several companies, such as ZOOT a. s. (2017–2020) or Raiffeisenbank a. s. (since 2016) He has been a member of the Chamber of Auditors of the Czech Republic since 1997, between 2004 and 2010 he also acted in its supervisory commission. Since 2018 he is in the executive committee.