First Jamie Smith replaced Gabriel Berdár as Cesky´ Telecom's CEO. In the most recent news, Salvador Anglada stepped in to fill the vacancy after Michal Heřman resigned as Eurotel's CEO and managing director.

Before moving to the Czech Republic, Anglada acted as the sales and marketing director at Telefónica Empresas Espana and Telefónica Espana. In Telefónica Empresas Espana, a unit of Telefónica Espana, he was in charge of services provided to corporate clients. In the past, Anglada also worked for Dell Computers and Dow Jones Markets. Anglada studied industrial engineering at the Escuela Superior de Ingenieros Industriales in Madrid, and he also holds an MBA from the Instituto de Empresas in Madrid.

One week before making the decision about privatization of aircraft maker Aero Vodochody (see story, page A7), the government made a personnel change within the company's top management.

Petr Klimeš, who worked as board chairman, replaced Antonín Jakubše in the position of Aero's president. At the same time, Zdeněk Sýkora and Olga Svědínková were replaced on the board of directors by Zdeněk Stuchlík and Jan Štechr. Stuchlík will be deputy chairman of the board of directors and vice president for military aircraft. One seat on the five-member board of directors remains vacant.

Jakubše was Aero's president from 2001 after moving to the company from Czech Airlines, where he was president for five years. Klimeš joined Aero from Czech Television in 2003.

CMS Cameron McKenna law firm has recruited senior associate Jan Kotík to its Prague team. Kotík will be focusing mainly on the areas of energy and projects and corporate law. He will also be the Energy & Projects team coordinator responsible for this area within the Czech Republic, as well as working with other colleagues in Central and Eastern Europe.

Kotík spent the last seven years with Dewey Ballantine law firm, where he advised on various mergers and acquisitions. His previous job experience included working for Lovells and for Zeiner Golan Nir and Partners in Prague, Vienna and Tel Aviv. Kotík has lectured at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark on Czech and Slovak law and local business practices. He also ran his own consulting firm in Denmark providing advice on small business and private enterprise development in the former Czechoslovakia and throughout Central and Eastern Europe.