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Changes to the composition of the O2 Czech Republic a.s. board(ENP Newswire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) ENP Newswire - 25 June 2014 Release date- 24062014 - On 23 June 2014, the Supervisory Board of O2 Czech Republic accepted the resignation of Martin Bek from his position of board member. The Supervisory Board appointed TomaS Budnik to the vacant position. Mr Budnik will also assume the position of Chief Executive Officer of O2 Czech Republic from 1 July 2014. TomaS Budnik graduated from the VSB-Technical University of Ostrava. He has spent more than 20 years in the field of telecommunications, including periods at INEC, Cesky Telecom and GTS, where he occupied various management posts in sales, marketing, customer care and oversight. His last position at GTS saw him take responsibility for the planning, construction, development and operation of telecommunications networks as well as customer service. Subsequently, as CEO, he partook in restructuring efforts at MobilKom, the provider of the U:fon network. In 2011, he joined PPF, where he initially served as IT Manager at the Eldorado subsidiary company. In 2013, he led a PPF project to create a fourth major mobile phone operator in the Czech Republic. Since April 2014, he has served at O2 in the post of Director of the IT & Demand Management division. About O2 Czech Republic O2 is the largest integrated telecommunications provider in the Czech market. At present we operate close to eight million mobile and fixed accesses, which ranks us among the market leaders in fully converged services in Europe. To users of mobile services in the Czech Republic we offer state-of-the-art HSPA+ and LTE technology. We have the most comprehensive proposition of voice and data services in the Czech Republic, and we actively exploit the growth potential of the various business lines, especially ICT. Our data centres, with total floor area of 7,300 square metres, rank us among the leaders in hosting, cloud and managed services. O2 data centres are the only ones in the Czech Republic and in Central Europe to have TIER III certification. With our O2 TV we are also the largest IPTV service provider in the Czech Republic. In January 2014, O2 became a member of the Czech investment group PPF. About PPF Group PPF Group invests into multiple market segments such as banking and financial services, insurance, real estate, energy, metal mining, agriculture, retail and biotechnology. PPF's reach spans from Central and Eastern Europe to Russia and across Asia. PPF Group owns assets of EUR 22.113 billion (as at 30 June 2013). Contacts Lucie Jungmannova [email protected] tel: 800 163 342 (800 1 media) (c) 2014 Electronic News Publishing - |