Company Management

Lead Partner, Broader Assurance Services

Tomáš Kuča has been working at PwC for more than 28 years. In addition to the Czech Republic, he worked for two years at PwC Canada and five years at PwC in Slovakia, where he led the Consulting team for the three years. In the Czech Republic, he is now the leading partner of Audit Services. Tomáš Kuča focuses on services in cyber security, quality, data processing, cloud solutions, or internal controls. Has experience managing compliance projects or implementation measures related to Sarbanes-Oxley requirements. His portfolio includes companies of all sizes from various fields of business, with a primary focus on telecommunications and energy. Geographically, he has experience providing services to clients across Central and Eastern Europe, Western and Northern Europe, North America, and the Caribbean. Tomáš Kuča obtained a master's degree at the VUT in Brno and a management degree at Sandwell College in Great Britain.

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Lead Partner, Tax&Legal Services

Martin Diviš has been working for PwC since 1999, and has been a member of the Chamber of Tax Advisers since 2001. Since the summer of 2016, he has been our tax partner of highly valued expertise in the area of indirect taxes. As of 2020, he has been the CEE TLS Technology leader and his team has been long dedicated to digitalisation of tax services and to the use of automation.

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Lead Partner, Consulting

Petr Ložek has worked as a consultant for over 20 years. He focuses primarily on financial services and technology consultancy. He has worked for most leading banking and insurance groups in the region of Central Europe and has been engaged in numerous technology transformation projects.

The main areas of his expertise include IT and digitising strategies, multi-channel solutions, process automation and digitisation, business intelligence solutions and core banking transformations.

Before joining PwC, Petr Ložek worked for Accenture as the Managing Director, where he was responsible for key accounts in the area of financial services in the Czech and Slovak Republics, Hungary and Romania.

Petr Ložek believes that the principal advantage of PwC compared to classic technology suppliers lies in PwC’s ability to pair technical skills with in-depth knowledge of the individual sectors, commercial perspective and regulatory issues, data analysis skills and, where relevant, also legal and tax aspects, whereby it can provide its clients with a comprehensive service package.
Petr Ložek is married and has two children. His hobbies include playing golf and running.

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Lead Partner, Core Assurance

Michal Stránský joined PwC in 2004; he has been a partner of Audit since 2017. He used to be responsible for audit teams in offices in Ostrava and Brno and, at the same time, he managed a segment focused on clients with multinational Shared Service Centres in the Czech Republic. As of 2023, he is the Lead Partner of Audit Services in the Czech Republic.
Michal Stránský has also spent 3 years at PwC Norway where he mainly performed audits of companies listed on stock markets in New York, Singapore, Oslo, Paris and Rio de Janeiro.
Michal Stránský studied the field of finance at the Faculty of Economic at the Technical University of Ostrava. He is a statutory auditor and is certified under FCCA, the international qualification for auditors and accountants.

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Market Leader for Czech Republic

David Borkovec joined PwC in 1999; he is a senior partner in Tax and Legal Department since 2010. He specializes in providing consultancy services concerning international and Czech tax issues and transfer pricing.

He is a chartered tax consultant, a member of the Chamber of Tax Advisors of the Czech Republic and also a court-appointed expert in the fields of taxes, customs duties and levies. He is also a member representing the Czech Republic in the independent expert body for the purpose of establishment of an advisory committee pursuant to the EU Convention establishing the procedure to resolve double taxation cases (the EU Tax Arbitration Convention).

He was honoured as the best tax consultant in the Czech Republic in the area of transfer pricing for the years 2012 and 2013. David Borkovec graduated with a degree in Economics from the University of Economics in Prague. In 2014, he completed the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School, Harvard University. He is married and has two children.

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COO

Petr Smutný is a partner of the PwC Czech Republic, heads restructuring department (Performance and Restructuring) and also holds the company's chief operating officer position. He conducts restructuring consulting in the Czech Republic and the entire Central and Eastern European (CEE) region. He has dealt with endangered companies in the Czech Republic and Europe for over 25 years. Among the most famous restructurings he led are Sazka, Nová Huť/Mittal Steel Ostrava, Kordárna, Jablonex Group, Tatra, and Zoot. He is also the chairman of the Czech Turnaround Management Association (TMA).

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Diversity&Inclusion leader

Olga Řehořková became a partner of PwC Czech Republic in 2022 and is in charge of the Diversity&Inclusion agenda. At the same time, she leads the Future of Finance platform focused on digitizing the financial function and manages a portfolio of audit clients from the fields of real estate, energy, and TMT.
Olga has a Ph. D. at the University of Economics in Prague and is a member of ACCA. She is also a registered auditor of the Chamber of Auditors of the Czech Republic. In addition to working at PwC, she lectures at her alma mater, VŠE on the Master's course in Auditing and Master in Finance and Accounting English.

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