Successful Alumni

Markéta Dvořák
Business Development Manager
Wellington Management Singapore
Based in the Singapore office, Markéta is a Business Development Manager at one of the world’s largest asset management firms, Wellington Management. Prior to moving to Singapore in 2015, she worked in the firm’s London office and their European investors. Markéta holds a double Masters degree from the University of Economics in Prague and Helsinki School of Economics (CEMS). She and her Singaporean husband have a two-year-old son. In her free time, Marketa devotes her energy to supporting the cultural legacy of her great-great-grandfather, Czech Composer Antonín Dvořák.
CEMS graduate 2005

Andrea Hurychová
Chief Strategist & Co-founder
WeDigital Prague
Andrea started her career as an intern at Google in Prague. After experience in digital marketing, she became festival director of Utubering – one of the biggest events for generation Z – focused on influencers. Nowadays, she is co-founder and chief strategist in her online marketing agency WeDigital focused on influencer and video marketing. With her team, she cooperates with the brands such as Asahi beer, Avon, Google or Czech Olympic team. During her CEMS studies, she spent a semester abroad at the Louvain School of Management.
CEMS graduate 2014

Hana Scharffová
Reporter/Presenter
Czech TV
Hana is a Czech TV presenter of the Horizont ČT24, a programme dedicated to current world affairs. During studies, she spent two semesters abroad at the Universität St. Gallen and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She has worked in media since 1999, during years 2005-2009 as a foreign correspondent of the Czech TV in Germany, where she interviewed many of its high representatives, including Chancellor Angela Merkel. In 2006 she received a prize for journalist under 33 (Novinářská křepelka). She is a Taekwon-do ITF medallist and likes to spend her time with family, friends, in nature or training, around people who inspire her and at all the places where life reaches a spiritual level.
CEMS graduate 2002

Tomáš Hruška
Country Managing Director CZ/SK/HU
L’Oréal
Tomáš started his career in the L’Oréal’s Marketing Department in the Czech Republic. He then worked in marketing and commerce in France; in Sweden as Country Managing Director, in Italy as General Manager Consumer Products Division, in the Czech Republic as Country Managing Director for the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary. Since March 2020 Tomáš has been operating in Denmark as Country Managing Director for Nordic countries.
CEMS graduate 1998

Matouš Michněvič
Vice President – Head of Credit Product Europe
Mastercard
Matouš started his career in an advisory at KPMG in Prague and later Amsterdam. He was at the start of the strategy team at PwC for middle and eastern Europe. He has been working at Mastercard since 2013. Matouš was awarded the Silver Medal of prof. Jan Jánský for his blood donation. He lives in London with his wife and two daughters.
CEMS graduate 2006

Petr Šmíd
Head of Consumer Marketing, CEE
Google
Petr has been working for Google since 2013. Before that, he worked as an Associate and Business Analyst and later as an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company. Being a CEMS and INSEAD MBA graduate himself, he’s passionate about education – leading frequent workshops for students, professionals, startups, and other businesses. He has always enjoyed travelling, skiing & ice hockey, for the past 3 years all of this with his little daughter.
CEMS graduate 2005