GreenHack People – Mentors, Jury, Organizers
You can see profiles of the mentors who will help you with your hack as well as judges & organizers:
GreenHack Mentors
Mattoni 1873
Andrea Brožová
Group PR Manager
Group PR Manager
An accomplished communications professional with a track record of successful corporate communication campaigns across all communication channels. Passionate about sustainability and circular economy topics as a vital part of corporate communication, nurturing media relations and engaging employees into the life of the company.
Barbora Gavendová
Brand Manager Mattoni
Brand Manager Mattoni
Bára is the brand manager of the most iconic mineral water in the Czech Republic – Mattoni. She is responsible for the natural mineral water category and the development of projects focused on circularity. Mattoni has long advocated for the introduction of a deposit system in the Czech Republic, this year introducing a 1l returnable glass bottle in a unique, divisible container.
Klára Hálová
Head of Water Category
Head of Water Category
Klara has experience in Food industry since 2004. Since January 2016, she works as a Head of Water Category and Education Programme in Mattoni 1873. She is Director of AquaLife Institute, organization that brings together leading experts and scientists in body hydration, nutrition and healthy lifestyle and also hydrogeology. Klara is representing KMV in Food Drinks Czech Republic in Committee for Trade and Marketing and in the Platform for Reformulations. In May 2018, she graduated the lifelong learning programme of the Circular Economy at Faculty of Environmental protection of the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague. She is directly involved in project Zalohujme striving for introduction of the deposit system for PET bottles and cans in the Czech Republic. Klara is working on implementation of Sustainability strategy for Mattoni 1873 holding, that includes reaching climate neutrality, biodiversity protection, water management and others.
Martin Veselý
Sustainability Manager
Sustainability Manager
Martin has started his professional journey in telco industry developing complex solutions within IoT/Smart City area and lately was leading local sales teams in EU. He finds exiting circular economy and its implications especially in beverage industry and this leads him into strong support of Deposit system deployment for beverage bottles.
Magda Kroftová
Sustainability Specialist
Sustainability Specialist
Magda has been interested in sustainability since university where she studied ecology and nature conservation. In her professional career she focuses mainly on biodiversity and carbon footprint projects, she avidly explores the latest trends in sustainability and circular economy.
T-Mobile
Martin Zmeškal
Head of Retail Logistics & Warehousing
Head of Retail Logistics & Warehousing
Martin has more than 20 years of experience in the telco industry. For the last 2 years he has focused on retail logistics, ie. storage and distribution of goods to end customers. Martin’s whole team work to ensure that T-Mobile has modern, digital and at the same time environmentally friendly logistics.
Radek Janíček
Head of Experience Centres
Head of Experience Centres
Retail is about daily contact with the customer, so it is also the more agile part of the company that must respond quickly to the customer – and this dynamics is the reason why I enjoy retail. Currently I am fully absorbed in the development of the unique Magenta Experience Center concept, which is a picture of the future of retail in Europe.
Jan Fišer
Head of Terminal Management
Head of Terminal Management
Jan has long professional history in telco industry. After several years of values added services product and project management he moved into terminal management business. At present he leads many company activities related to end-user HW, both mobile and fixed. Circular economy, waste management and generally ecological impact of the HW business are very interesting aspect of his daily work with rapidly increasing importance.
Ondřej Sellner
Head of Retail Warehousing
Head of Retail Warehousing
Ondřej has been working in FMCG logistics since 90’s, in telco industry more than 25 years. He is focused on warehousing & distribution area. Ondřej believes that logistics means not only to ensure that „the right goods will be on the right place in the right time“, but for him it is also very important: „for the right costs“.
Dagmar Möllerová
Market Segment Manager
Market Segment Manager
Dagmar works as a market segment manager in strategic marketing, where her main responsibilities include creativity and hardware campaign execution. In addition to standard campaigns, she also participates in sustainability area, for example the launch of the sale of recycled iPhones. She is currently working enthusiastically to launch a campaign to motivate customers to recycle old, obsolete hardware.
Tomáš Kubín
Retail Sales Support and Development Manager
Retail Sales Support and Development Manager
Tomas joined his career with T-Mobile CZ. He moved from sales positions through training to regional retail management. He is currently in charge of the retail channel development and support team. His agenda now also includes collecting equipment for recycling.
Deloitte
Eva Neudertová
Sustainability manager
Sustainability manager
Eva focusses on ESG, non-financial reporting and climate change related strategies as decarbonisation. Eva comes with the background in civil/environmental engineering with more than 12 years of professional experience covering green/sustainability roles in various companies dealing with both products and strategies (building, civil engineering, energy sector).
Eva Pčolka
Energy and Resources Manager
Energy and Resources Manager
Eva is a manager in Deloitte Energy and Resources team. She has passion for both the data and also for energy sector. In Deloitte, she is responsible especially for delivery of advanced data analytics projects for the whole energy sector. She has delivered a wide range of data driven solutions helping the companies to improve their digital maturity and energy efficiency, spare energy and reduce carbon footprint. She has participated in delivery of energy management systems, tools for prediction of energy prices and consumption, energy trading optimization.
Lucia Krajčovičová
Energy Consultant
Energy Consultant
Lucia studied at Central European University in Vienna and the University of Glasgow. She has 2+ years of professional experience in the field of energy and sustainability in market analysis, strategy and advocacy roles. Alongside her work, she is passionate about non-formal education. She is the founder and president of a youth NGO BETA Slovakia aiming to raise awareness about the EU and improve critical thinking among the youth. She successfully organised the first international conference Model European Union Bratislava 2020 funded by the International Visegrad Fund in cooperation with MEPs, Oxford lecturers and European institutions. As a start-up co-founder, Lucia is currently part of the McKinsey Next Generation Woman Leaders 2022 program and the Central European University Innovations Lab incubation program.
Kateřina Čermáková
Senior Sustainability Consultant
Senior Sustainability Consultant
Kateřina is helping companies develop their sustainability strategies and decarbonization pathways. She has background in sustainable construction and building certifications, BREEAM particularly. Previous work in energy sector brought her closer to the topics of energy efficiency and decarbonization which quickly became close to her heart. Apart from sustainable topics she is a big fan of anything sweet. If you need help from her, pay her with sweets.
Cyrkl
Roman Gdovjak
Country Manager for Slovakia & Expansion Manager at Cyrkl.com
Country Manager for Slovakia & Expansion Manager at Cyrkl.com
Roman is a Country Manager for Slovakia & Expansion Manager at Cyrkl.com – green-tech start-up and trading platform with focus on circularity in waste management. In the European biggest recycling platform, waste of one company could be a wealth for another one and when using machine learning, Cyrkl can manage the right match. He has been focusing on the topic of circular economy for a couple of years now, in the start-up world, but prior to Cyrkl, also in public administration and NGO sector. In public administration in Slovak Environment Agency, he was responsible for the topic of Sustainable consumption and production, while also representing Slovakia’s circular economy activities in Brussels and organising an international conference for Eco-innovation. He is a graduate of the University of Economics, where he focused on International economic relations.
Peter Kisel
CTO at Cyrkl.com
CTO at Cyrkl.com
Peter is a CTO at Cyrkl.com – green-tech startup and trading platform with focus on circularity in waste management.
Reknihy
Tadeáš Kula
CEO and founder of Reknihy
CEO and founder of Reknihy
Tadeáš Kula is the CEO and founder of the startup Reknihy. It is a digital platform that allows people to efficiently sell books lying unused in their library. Tadeáš is a web designer, which, apart from UX, is his primary speciality. He started his business career very early – at the age of 13 when he managed and owned popular game servers. As a teenager, he was still creating websites or participating in the expansion of FaceUp abroad. Tadeáš gifted the creation of Reknihy as his 22nd birthday gift to himself. As he says, it was born out of his own need to send his books out so that someone else could be enriched by them and save the environment at the same time.
CEE Hacks
Tomáš Studeník
Radical Innovator & City Hacker
Radical Innovator & City Hacker
Tomáš is a radical innovator who helps global companies awake their innovative potential and seek new opportunities in the post-digital era. He holds MBA from the University of Liverpool and MSc in Innovation from HEC in Paris. He is the CEO of management consultancy Insane Business Ideas as well as a creative director of Confidence Digital. He organizes official FuckUp Nights in Prague and other major cities in the Czech Republic, and stands behind CEE Hacks innovative marathons (Hackathons), where global hackers and students solve problems in transport, energy, healthcare and social innovations. In 2019 and to celebrate the centenary of invention of the word “robot”, Tomáš started a project called THEaiTRE in which artificial intelligence wrote the script of the 1st theatre play ever written by non-human author.
GreenHack Jury members
Klára Hálová
Head of Water Category at Mattoni 1873
Head of Water Category at Mattoni 1873
Klara has experience in Food industry since 2004. Since January 2016, she works as a Head of Water Category and Education Programme in Mattoni 1873. She is Director of AquaLife Institute, organization that brings together leading experts and scientists in body hydration, nutrition and healthy lifestyle and also hydrogeology. Klara is representing KMV in Food Drinks Czech Republic in Committee for Trade and Marketing and in the Platform for Reformulations. In May 2018, she graduated the lifelong learning programme of the Circular Economy at Faculty of Environmental protection of the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague. She is directly involved in project Zalohujme striving for introduction of the deposit system for PET bottles and cans in the Czech Republic. Klara is working on implementation of Sustainability strategy for Mattoni 1873 holding, that includes reaching climate neutrality, biodiversity protection, water management and others.
Petr Jonák
Head of Corporate Affairs & Sustainability at T-Mobile
Head of Corporate Affairs & Sustainability at T-Mobile
Petr Jonák is Head of Corporate Affairs & Sustainability at T-Mobile. Previously he has held similar positions in Coca-Cola and BXR Group. Since 2015, he has also been a member of the Board of Directors of the Confederation of Industry, where he leads the Expert Committee for Sustainability. Petr is also a member of the Government Council for Sustainable Development. All his life, Petr’s lifelong mission is to connect worlds that don’t talk to each other much, but should.
Radek Hartman
Member of the Board of Directors
Member of the Board of Directors
Graduating from the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University, Prague, Radek further completed an MBA program specializing in strategic and change management at the Sheffield Business School. He has held managerial positions at companies including Arthur Andersen, MONDI Štětí, Cap Gemini, CE WOOD, U & SLUNO, and Ernst & Young Czech Republic.
Eva Neudertová
Sustainability manager at Deloitte
Sustainability manager at Deloitte
Eva focusses on ESG, non-financial reporting and climate change related strategies as decarbonisation. Eva comes with the background in civil/environmental engineering with more than 12 years of professional experience covering green/sustainability roles in various companies dealing with both products and strategies (building, civil engineering, energy sector).
Peter Kisel
CTO at Cyrkl.com
CTO at Cyrkl.com
Peter is a CTO at Cyrkl.com – green-tech startup and trading platform with focus on circularity in waste management.
Organizers
Tomáš Studeník
Radical Innovator & City Hacker
Radical Innovator & City Hacker
Tomáš is a radical innovator who helps global companies awake their innovative potential and seek new opportunities in the post-digital era. He holds MBA from the University of Liverpool and MSc in Innovation from HEC in Paris. He is the CEO of management consultancy Insane Business Ideas as well as a creative director of Confidence Digital. He organizes official FuckUp Nights in Prague and other major cities in the Czech Republic, and stands behind CEE Hacks innovative marathons (Hackathons), where global hackers and students solve problems in transport, energy, healthcare and social innovations. In 2019 and to celebrate the centenary of invention of the word “robot”, Tomáš started a project called THEaiTRE in which artificial intelligence wrote the script of the 1st theatre play ever written by non-human author.
Petr Žabka
GreenHack Project manager
GreenHack Project manager
Petr studied Finance and Management at the University of Economics, Prague. He currently works as a hackathons organizer & consultant and helps to grow people and create new businesses in mentorship programs. Petr spent recent years in one of the big 4 consultancy companies providing a technology consulting services (bank regulations mostly) for various clients in Europe. He likes sharing economy & solutions for sustainable future. He developed his own NGO called Library of Things and currently is writing a thesis about circular economy.
