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PwC appoints partner

By František Bouc
Staff Writer, The Prague Post
January 31st, 2007 issue

Hackworth
Michael W. Hackworth has been appointed managing partner for operations and markets at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). He will be responsible for Central and Eastern Europe as well as the Commonwealth of Independent States. In addition to his new responsibilities, he will continue to serve as managing partner of PwC Czech Republic.
In his new role, he will be responsible for overseeing all regional aspects of the firm’s internal operations and market activity, which includes 24 countries and employs more than 6,000 people.
Hackworth has worked at PwC (formerly Price Waterhouse) for 26 years. He is an experienced business development leader and a specialist in international privatisation and forensic accounting. He has been living and working in the region for 15 years. He was posted to Moscow in 1992, where he helped establish the Price Waterhouse practice in Russia. Since 1996, he has lived in Prague and served as managing partner of the Czech practice.
Hackworth graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in accounting and finance. He is a certified fraud examiner. He also served for five years in the U.S. Marine Corps.
Milan Beutl was recently promoted to business director by GE Money Auto. Beutl has worked with the leading Czech car leasing provider since 1999, most recently as the manager of independent dealers. In his new position, Beutl will further work on developing GE Money Auto networks in the Czech Republic.
The Prague office of the international law firm Clifford Chance has hired Juraj Lipka to focus on its Slovak law practice.
He is an attorney and a member of the Czech and Slovak bar.
Beutl
He graduated from Central European University in Budapest with a degree in international business law. He studied in Poland (College of Europe), Slovakia (Comenius University, Faculty of Law) and Norway (University of Oslo) and speaks Slovak, Czech, English and French.
Libor Vacek has joined Clifford Chance’s banking and finance practice in the Prague office.
Vacek is an experienced lawyer who has been focusing on the field of banking and finance for more than six years. He previously worked for two years for the Czech Securities Commission and was an active member of the Legislative Committee of the Union of Investment Companies in the Czech Republic.
Vacek
Vacek graduated from the Law Faculty of Masaryk University in Brno. He is a co-author of the commentary to the Investment Companies and Investment Funds Act and also the co-author of the commentary to the Concession Act.
Polish group PKN Orlen — which privatized the leading Czech petrochemical holding Unipetrol in 2004 — has announced a change. Igor Chalupec was dismissed from his position as board chairman Jan. 18 and replaced by Piotr Kownacki, who previously worked as the board’s vice chairman.

František Bouc can be reached at fbouc@praguepost.com


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