Žabokrtský is a graduate of the University of Economics in Prague and previously worked as the alliance sales development manager for Czech Airlines in Prague.

The Donath Burson Marsteller (DBM) public affairs team is gaining new staff. Michaela Jelínková returned from an almost-four-year tenure at the European Commission in Brussels to become a new member of the team. At the same time, Tomáš Jelínek was promoted as the director of public affairs.

Jelínková recently held the position of administrator at the EC's Directorate General for Health and Consumer Protection. She was involved in the preparation of consumer-protection information campaigns.

Bugaj has worked at Polish petrochemical group PKN Orlen, which had controlled Unipetrol, since 1970. He was also on the supervisory boards of other Czech petrochemical companies that belong to PKN Orlen, including Paramo and Chemopetrol.

Kapler joined the PKN Orlen group as chief purchasing officer (oil and energy industry) in 2005. He later became the executive director for cost control and procurement and has held this position ever since.

Another company from within the PKN Orlen Group, gas chain Benzina, has reported a change in top management. Tomasz Rejman, PKN Orlen's director of value improvement, was promoted to Benzina's board of directors. Rejman started his professional career in 1999 as a sales marketing manager at Procter & Gamble in Poland. Before joining PKN Orlen in 1995, he worked as project manager for business consultancy firm McKinsey & Company.

Tomáš Poslušný recently became business development manager at the information technology company LLP Prague.

Poslušný has worked in IT since 1998, when he began working as a pre-sales account manager at Expert & Partner Engineering company. He later moved on to work as business director of Plaut Consulting, and most recently was the business director of the CSC Computer Sciences firm.