Movers and Shakers
Wittman joins exec search
By Frantisek Bouc Staff Writer, The Prague Post March 10, 2005
| Holy | TTC Telsys has named Jan Holy its director of telecommunications. Before joining TTC, he consulted in the area of information and financial systems and business development for foreign companies and participated in numerous international projects in the field of software research and development.
Holy has worked at Digital Equipment, Computer Equipment, MC2 International, Euronet Services, IBM and Finmatica. He was one of the first Czech members of the American Chamber of Commerce in Prague and is a board member.
| Wittman | After setting up the Czech office for executive search firm SpenglerFox in November 2003, country manager Blake Wittman will now oversee the firm's expansion to Slovakia. SpenglerFox intends to open its Slovak office in April. Wittman has been active on the recruitment market in the region of Central and Eastern Europe for more than three years. He has a degree from Middlebury College in the United States, and in addition to his native English, he speaks fluent Czech and German. When not headhunting, he is a ski instructor and avid linguist.
| Rovetta | Brian Rovetta has joined SpenglerFox, where he will be leading the technology practice across the CEE region. He joins the agency after working in the field for more than eight years in Central and Eastern Europe. Rovetta holds a bachelor's degree in political science and Russian and a master's degree in international management from the Garvin School of International Management. He will divide his duties between Moscow and Prague. When he has the time, he also teaches scuba diving and is an underwater photographer.
| Pechouckova | GE Money Bank has promoted Jana Pechouckova to director of its internal audit department. Pechouckova joined GE Money Bank in 2001 and worked until the end of 2004 as an internal auditor. Previously, Pechouckova worked as an assistant to the general director in Optaglio holographic component manufacturer. Pechouckova studied economics at the University of Pardubice.
Ludek Skoupil has been appointed chief executive officer in the Czech office of Credit Suisse Life & Pension. Until the appointment Skoupil was director of the pension fund's legal department. Skoupil's experience includes participating in two of the Czech Republics' largest mergers of pensions funds: Winterthur's merger with Bansky a hutni penzijni fond and Penzijni fond Vseobecne zdravotni pojistovny CR in 2001, and Credit Suisse Life & Pension's merger with Vojensky otevreny penzijni fond in 2002. Meanwhile, Petr Zaluda remains general director for the pension fund unit as well as for the entire Czech Credit Suisse Life & Pension group.
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