Pavel Tichý

Main activities and responsibilities (co-responsibilities): - identification, definition and setting up of business processes and their subsequent implementation in a newly introduced ERP system (namely purchase, production, property records, costs sorting, sales); - budgeting and forecasting (yearly and medium-term); - reporting (daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, half-yearly, yearly); - stepwise implementation of company controlling system (purchase, investment, production, personnel, wage costs of production, occupational safety and health, shipping, financial indicators) including production pricing system; - HR (wages and salaries budgeting, workforce outsourcing; overtime); - IT (IT strategy, purchase of HW and SW (ERP, Management Information System, email, banks etc.), new implementation of ERP system, payroll processing system, energy consumption system etc.); - company cash flow – investment, working capital management, disinvestment; - negotiating with banks and leasing companies (bank accounts administration, operating and investment financing, leasing); - financial reporting, financial statements, stocktaking and statutory audit of the company (International Financial Reporting Standards – IFRS); - tax administration; - negotiating with trade unions (social commission).

Main activities and responsibilities (co-responsibilities): - creating and fulfilling company strategy; - M&A process (JITONA & Tusculum merger and consequent company restructuring plus centralization of particular activities); - budgeting, forecasting (yearly and medium-term); - detailed company controlling including calculation system, reporting; - setting up and implementation of business processes; (2x ERP system upgrade, 1x Management Information System upgrade); - property administration (centralised investment, stocktaking) including disinvestments; - HR (recruitment, selection, training and development of employees, system of wages and wages policy, benefit system, wages and salaries budgeting, workforce outsourcing, personal administration including wage department, occupational safety and health); - IT (IT strategy, HW, SW (ERP, MIS, email, banks etc.), IT services outsourcing); - company cash flow – working capital, investment, disinvestment, debts structure; - financial reporting, financial statements and statutory audit (Czech Accounting Standards); - tax administration; - legal services (employment contracts, business contracts including credit contracts, leasing contracts, Collective Agreement); - negotiating with banks and leasing companies (current bank accounts administration, operating financing, investment and project financing); - negotiating with trade unions (Collective Agreement); - preparing agenda for the Board of Directors meetings.

Main activities and responsibilities (co-responsibilities): Comprehensive responsibility for large-lot (IKEA) and small-lot (Germany, UK, Netherlands, Slovakia, Czech Republic) furniture production, in particular for: - purchase, HR, quality, safety, production and development, maintenance, economy and controlling, shipping and sales department managing; - creating and fulfilling of yearly budgets and forecasts (variable and fixed costs level managing, investment proposal); - recruitment (combination of own employees and workforce outsourcing), keeping production wage costs, Labor Code and Collective Agreement; - quality assurance of manufactured furniture including customer complaints agenda; - property administration; - negotiating with trade unions, local authorities etc.; - supportive negotiations with customers; - all activities related to the close down of the Prachatice plant (especially to meet deadline, to keep costs of the project, to safeguard property, to support employees etc.).