Board of Directors

Ing. Václav Řehoř, Ph.D., MBA 
Chairman of the Board of Directors
Václav Řehoř is responsible for aviation business, quality and safety procedure management, corporate and marketing communications, security quality control, airport coordination, audits, risk and compliance management, human resources management and corporate governance. Beginning in 2006, he was the Financial Director and Company Secretary in the CCS of the Fleetcor Technologies Group, and between October 2007 and 2011, he was the Acting CEO/General Director of the said company. He has worked in various positions in companies based in the Czech Republic, Great Britain and Canada throughout his 23-year career. In the eight years preceding his current position, he worked for companies owned by the following private equity funds: Advent International, ARX Equity Partners and Benson Oak. He graduated from the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, where he also obtained a doctoral degree in Economics and Company Management. He earned an MBA from Prague International Business School at the University of Economics in Prague/Manchester Metropolitan University.

Ing. Jiří Kraus
Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors
Jiří Kraus has been on the Prague Airport Board of Directors since 2014. He is responsible for air traffic, power engineering and technology management, protection of the environment, facility management services, building maintenance and area upkeep. He has been working at Václav Havel Airport Prague since 1997, when he was primarily in charge of power and energy systems, and investment construction (such as Terminal 2). He came to Prague Airport from Poldi Kladno.

Ing. Milan Špaček
Member of the Board of Directors
Milan Špaček has been on the Prague Airport Board of Directors since 2014. He is responsible for those departments which ensure airport safety. He is in charge of strategy and security management, the Prague Airport Fire and Rescue Service, airport security, passenger and baggage security checks, detection and analysis of risk behaviour and a new phenomenon – information security. Prior to joining the airport, he worked as, among positions, the Security Manager and Director of Safety at České dráhy, a.s. (Czech Railways). He graduated from Military University, and as part of his subsequent personal development, he studied internal auditing at the Czech Institute of Internal Auditors, of which he became a member in 2002.

Jiří Černík
Member of the Board of Directors

Prior to joining the airport, Jiří Černík was Chief Financial Officer at Skanska, where he acquired extensive experience in the construction industry, which will bring substantial benefits in view of the planned investments in the development of Prague Airport. Before working for Skanska, he gained a broad range of experience in finance management, controlling and auditing in the fields of consulting, gas, industry and technology. Specifically, he worked at Ernst & Young, Jihomoravská plynárenská, Honeywell and Zetor.

The new member of the Prague Airport Board of Directors will be responsible for finance, purchasing and information technology