Audit Committee

Otakar Hora

Born 1960

Chairperson of the Audit Committee since 3 July 2024
Member of the Audit Committee since 3 June 2016

He graduated from the University of Economics in Prague in 1984, in the discipline of Economic Information and Control; he completed his scientific research assistantship at the Department of Accounting of the UoE in 1993. Between 1984 and 1991, he worked at the Department of Accounting of the UoE, later at the Department of Management Accounting as an assistant professor, and then as the deputy head of department. Since 1992, he has been a member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Finance and Accounting of the University of Economics in Prague. Between 1998 and 2000, he was Vice President of the Czech Chamber of Auditors. From 1991 to May 2016, he worked at KPMG Česká republika Audit, s.r.o., from 1996 as a partner. He was responsible for the energy sector and for a group of industrial companies, taking care of the company’s most important accounts. He was also responsible for the operational management of the KPMG Group in the Czech Republic, as the COO.

Jiří Pelák

Born 1977

Vice-Chairperson of the Audit Committee since 29 June 2022
Member of the Audit Committee since 28 June 2021

He studied accounting and corporate financial management at the Faculty of Finance and Accounting of the University of Economics in Prague, where he also completed his doctoral studies. He studied at the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, for six months, and at St. Marks International College in Australia for another half year. At present, he works at the Department of Financial Accounting and Auditing at the Faculty of Finance and Accounting of the University of Economic in Prague; he is an auditor and the First Vice President of the Czech Chamber of Auditors. As a methodologist, he was, for three years, responsible for managing subsidiary reporting, consolidation, and reporting to the parent company, at Global Payments Europe. As an expert, he is the author of a number of interpretations of the National Accounting Council, application clauses for the Czech Chamber of Auditors, and has taken part in the translation of international financial reporting standards.

Petr Šobotník

Born 1954

Member of the Audit Committee since 29 June 2022

He is a graduate of the University of Economics in Prague. Between 1983 and 1991, he managed accounting departments in the field of telecommunications and post, on the corporate and ministry level. From 1991 to 2010, he worked at the audit firms Coopers & Lybrand and PricewaterhouseCoopers, where, from 1995, he was a Partner in management positions in the audit department. He has many years of experience with audits at large supranational corporations as well as the largest Czech companies. In terms of sectors, he has specialised on auditing infrastructure companies in the energy sector (including coal extraction), gas industry, and telecommunications. He obtained his audit licence in 1991, and then worked as a statutory auditor and member of the Chamber of Auditors for 27 years. Between 2007 and 2014, he was repeatedly elected President of the Czech Chamber of Auditors for two consecutive terms. At the Czech Chamber of Auditors, he was also responsible for implementing the IFAC Code of Ethics in the Czech environment, and for many years, he represented the Czech Republic in the Ethics Committee of a European auditing association. Since 2011, he has specialised in the operation of audit committees, and at present he works primarily as an independent member of audit committees, for example, at Letiště Praha, a.s., ČEPRO, a.s., MERO, a.s., and in the ČSOB Group.

Andrea Lukasíková

Born 1980

Member of the Audit Committee since 28 June 2018

She graduated from the University of Economics, Faculty of International Relations, majoring in international trade, European integration, and law in business. She worked at the Office of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic in the Independent Department for European Integration. Between 2004 and 2014, she worked at Deloitte Audit s.r.o. in the Risk Management Department. She is a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) and a Certified Government Audit Professional (CGAP). In 2013 and 2014, she was a member of the Council of the Czech Institute of Internal Auditors. At present, she is a member of the audit committee at Letiště Praha, a. s. (formerly Český aeroholding, a.s.).

Tomáš Vyhnánek

Born 1977

Member of the Audit Committee since 28 June 2021

He studied economics at the Institute of Economic Studies and political science and international relations at the Institute of Political Studies of the Faculty of Social Sciences, at Charles University. Between 2015 and 2020, he worked as Deputy Minister of Finance, managing the Financial Management and Audit Department. At present, he works at the Ministry of Finance as the head of the Internal Audit Harmonisation Department. He has worked on the topic of financial management, control, and audit, both in government administration, in management positions as the head of analytical departments of the Ministry of Health and the Office of the Government, and in management positions at the consultancy firms Deloitte and ČSOB Advisory.