Board of Directors

Ing. Václav Řehoř, Ph.D., MBA 
Chair of the Board of Directors
Václav Řehoř is responsible for aviation business, economy, quality control and safety procedure management, internal audit and quality control of security at Prague Airport. From 2006, he worked as Financial Director and Secretary of CCS, a member of the Fleetcor Technologies Group, and from October 2007 to 2011 he was the company’s acting CEO. Throughout his 23-year career, he has worked in various positions in the Czech Republic, UK and Canada. For the last eight years, he has worked for companies owned by private equity funds, such as Advent International, ARX Equity Partners and Benson Oak. He is a graduate of the Czech University of Agriculture, Prague, where he was conferred with a PhD in Economics and Company Management. He received his MBA degree at PIBS - Manchester Metropolitan University/University of Economics, Prague.

Ing. Radek Hovorka
Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors
Mr. Hovorka was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors responsible for the Finance and Accounting, Taxes, Controlling and IT departments on 1 April 2016 . He is joining Czech Aeroholding having left IBM Czech Republic, where he worked over the past five years as Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary. In 2012, he was appointed to the position of IBM Central Region CFO, responsible for the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. During his tenure in IBM’s Financial Department, he participated in transformation of the Czech branch towards offering complex solutions and IT services with high added value. Radek Hovorka is a graduate of the University of Economics in Prague, specialization Accounting and Financial Management and has a diploma of ACCA (Association of Certified Chartered Accountants) in international financial reporting.

Ing. Jiří Kraus
Member of the Board of Directors
Jiří Kraus is the Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors Letiště Praha, a. s. He is responsible for air traffic, management of assets and technologies, environment, car fleet, LPH and area maintenance. He joined Prague Airport in 1997, when he was in charge of electrical and energy systems and investment construction (including Terminal 2). He came to Prague Airport from the Poldi Kladno Corporation.

Ing. Milan Špaček
Member of the Board of Directors
Milan Špaček has been a member of the Board of Directors of Letiště Praha, a.s. since 2014. He is responsible for the departments taking care of security and safety at the airport. He is in charge of security strategy and administration, the airport’s Rescue and Fire Service, airport security, passenger and luggage security check and the new phenomenon of information security. In the most recent two years, he has worked as the Security Manager and Director of Safety for Czech Railways. He is a graduate of the Czech University of Defence and in his subsequent individual training he studied internal audit at the Czech Institute of Internal Auditors, of which he become a member in 2002.

JUDr. Petr Pavelec, LL.M.
Member of the Board of Directors
Petr Pavelec joined the Board of Directors of Letiště Praha, a.s. in 2018, being in charge of development and investments. He had already joined the management of the Czech Aeroholding Group in 2014. Earlier in his career, he gained experience at renowned foreign law firms, most recently for instance White & Case, where he worked as a senior attorney at law. He focused primarily on Corporate Law, M&A and Private Equity transactions. He is a graduate of the Charles University, Faculty of Law in Prague as well as a postgraduate on the International Economic Law programme at the University of Warwick.