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    We are an innovative company in the automotive industry with a strong background in data and technology and the largest dealer of pre-owned cars in Central and Eastern Europe with a 30-year history.

    The Group sells pre-owned cars through the following key brands; Mototechna, AAA AUTO, AUTO DISKONT and, most recently, Driverama, an e-commerce platform for buying pre-owned cars in Western Europe. The Group’s fifth brand is RESULMATIC, our machine learning and big data processing agency with proprietary AI solutions for better sourcing and selling used cars.

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Management Board

Karolína Topolová

Karolína Topolová

co-Chief Executive Officer & Chairperson of Board of Directors
Karolína Topolová has been the Company's Chief Executive Officer since 2012 and the Chairperson of its Board of Directors since 2015. She began her career as an Assistant Program Manager at the Hilton Diamond Club (HDC). She later became the HDC Program Manager of a telemarketing sales team, in charge of selected VIP clients of the Hilton hotel network, at the Prague Hilton Atrium hotel.

In 1998, she established the Group's call center, which has grown from five employees to a professional team of more than 200. She held the position of call center head from 1998 to 2006. From 2006 to 2007, she served in the positions of Group HR head and call center director. From 2009 to 2012, she held various positions including Deputy CEO and COO, while she was also head of the sales, financial and insurance services, call center, human resources, IT and external communication divisions.

She has repeatedly been ranked in the TOP 25 WOMEN OF CZECH BUSINESS, in 2020 she won the 1st place in the managers category and in 2021 she entered the Hall of Fame. Karolina also regularly appears in the list of the Most Influential Women in the Czech Republic according to Forbes magazine and received the Lady Pro 2015 and Young Management Talent 2015 awards.
Petr Vaněček

Petr Vaněček

co-Chief Executive Officer
Petr Vaněček is a passionate automotive retail executive and became Co-CEO of the company in 2024. His responsibilities include executive management of the company and the business, Mototechna Group (mobility solutions for private customers and small and medium-sized companies), digitalization, innovation, IT, data management and branch network development. His task is to continue the geographical expansion of the company with a focus on the development on the Polish market. Since 2015 he has also been a member of its Board of Directors.

He has extensive experience across the full spectrum of the Company’s operations. Petr has held several management positions in various divisions, including in the Group’s buying division covering exports and imports gaining invaluable international retail experience and a deep understanding of the European pre-owned car market. During his time in the Group’s buying division, Petr was responsible for driving Aures’ cross border arbitrage business and was appointed as Director of Procurement in 2006 where he developed the sourcing infrastructure and established the Group’s pricing function sourced from sector experts and industry analysts. In 2014 he was appointed as Group Chief Operating Officer.

Since then Petr has played a pivotal role in establishing the Group’s data source division, seamlessly integrating this essential service across all of the Group’s operating divisions and played a major role in the Group’s entry into the nearly new car market through the creation of premium segment brand Mototechna.

He has transformed the organisation into a technology led operation in every aspect across the Group and played a major role in supporting Aures’ fantastic growth.

Marko Lehtonen

Marko Lehtonen

Group Chief Financial Officer
Marko Lehtonen has served as the Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Board of Directors since May 2024. He oversees the Company's overall financial management. His career began in the retail and technology sectors across various European countries. In 2013, he embarked on his automotive career as the Chief Financial Officer of Inchcape Nordics business unit. He has also held the position of Chief Financial Officer in publicly listed companies, most recently at Kamux Oyj from 2019 to 2024, one of Europe's leading used car retailers.

Marko brings extensive experience across various value drivers of the automotive business, having held numerous financial and general management positions in different European countries. He holds a Master's degree in Economics and Business Administration and is a CEFA holder.
Martin Hrudník

Martin Hrudník

Chief Operations Officer
Martin Hrudník has held the position of the Chief Operations Officer since 2024. He is responsible for determining the Company's buying strategy and related marketing activities . In addition, he also leads new projects supporting the Group's expansion. He began his career working in the construction industry and joined the Group in 1999. He started as a buying assistant and in 2004 became a regional buying manager. He has worked in different branches in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. In 2017 he became Group Purchasing Director. He graduated from the Mechanical Engineering High School.

Supervisory board

Stephen Neil Hopewell

Stephen Neil Hopewell

Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Stephen Neil Hopewell has been a member of the Supervisory Board since 2016. From 1987 to 1991, Stephen was General Manager of Pendragon Plc and was involved in its initial public offering in 1989. From 1991 to 2002, he held the position of Operations Director of Pendragon Plc. From 2002 until today, Stephen has been the owner and manager of the UK's Lindop Brothers Toyota dealership chain owning three Toyota and one Honda dealership. From 2007 to 2016, he held the position of the Head of global consulting division at ASE Global PLC. He holds a Bachelor degree in Economics / Agricultural Economics from Nottingham University.
Anthony James Denny

Anthony James Denny

Supervisory Board Member
Anthony founded AAA Auto group of companies in 1992, serving as CEO from 1992-97 and 2006-2012. He has been a member of the Supervisory Board since 2015 and a member of the Management Board between 1992-2015. He has over 40 years experience in retailing new and used cars including more than30 years experience in the cross border trade of used cars around the globe.
Wojciech Adam Lukawski

Wojciech Adam Lukawski

Supervisory Board Member
Wojciech Adam Lukawski has been a member of the Supervisory Board since 2015. He has 14 years of private equity experience, predominantly in Poland focussing on consumer finance, automotive and infrastructure sectors. Previously he was on the management board of two mass privatization funds in Poland, overseeing the restructuring and disposal of over 120 former state-owned companies. Prior to this, Wojciech was Finance Director of companies in the construction and textile industries. Wojciech also spent a number of years working in a mergers & acquisitions advisory and holds a Master’s degree from Lodz University.
Stephen John Richmond

Stephen John Richmond

Supervisory Board Member
Stephen John Richmond joined the Supervisory Board of the Company in 2021 and has more than 20 years of private equity experience in CE and is a Partner and Chief Financial Officer of Abris Capital Partners. Prior to Abris, Steve was a Partner at Copernicus Capital where he was responsible for the firm’s office and investment activities, initially in Zagreb and subsequently in Belgrade and Warsaw. Before joining Copernicus, Steve held senior management positions with two PE-backed UK companies. Steve has a degree in Zoology from the University of Leeds, UK.
Lenka Zajíčková

Lenka Zajíčková

Supervisory Board Member
Lenka Zajíčková has been a member of the Supervisory Board since 2020, serving as the Group Head of Legal since 2014 and Compliance Officer since 2020. Lenka is overseeing the Company's entire legal agenda. She has been working in advocacy since 2001, attorney-at-law since 2006 and has been working alongside the Company since 2010. In 2015, she was a member of the team and the main coordinator of the post-transaction corporate restructuring that followed the acquisition of AAA Auto Group N.V. by the Company and the subsequent cross-border merger of AAA Auto Group N.V. and AAA AUTO a.s. into the Group. She is a graduate of the Faculty of Law of Masaryk University in Brno.
Martina Kahulová

Martina Kahulová

Supervisory Board Member
Martina Kahulová has been a member of the Board since November 2023. She joined the company in 1999, when her first position was in HR as an assistant. After a year and a half, she worked her way up to Head of the Personnel Department. She left the company in 2010 to gain new experience and returned to the group in 2013. Since then, she has been working as the head of the payroll and personnel department in the position of Group Personnel and Payroll Manager.

Senior Management Committee

Lenka Zajíčková

Lenka Zajíčková

Chief Legal Officer
Lenka Zajíčková has been a member of the Supervisory Board since 2020, serving as the Group Head of Legal since 2014 and Compliance Officer since 2020. Lenka is overseeing the Company's entire legal agenda. She has been working in advocacy since 2001, attorney-at-law since 2006 and has been working alongside the Company since 2010. In 2015, she was a member of the team and the main coordinator of the post-transaction corporate restructuring that followed the acquisition of AAA Auto Group N.V. by the Company and the subsequent cross-border merger of AAA Auto Group N.V. and AAA AUTO a.s. into the Group. She is a graduate of the Faculty of Law of Masaryk University in Brno.
Jiří Trnka

Jiří Trnka

Chief Performance Officer
Jiří Trnka was promoted to Chief Performance Officer in 2024. He is responsible for business controlling/planning & targeting, margin committee and F&I division. Jiří joined AURES Holdings in 2004 as Internal Audit Manager and went through several management roles in Finance Department and in years 2010 – 2015 served as Chief Financial Officer. Since 2017 he has held the position of Finance & Insurance Director. Before AURES Holdings he worked on finance positions in Continental Teves and Škoda Auto. Jiří received Master’s degree in Finance and Accounting from the University of Economics in Prague.
Eldar Vagabov

Eldar Vagabov

Chief Innovation Officer
Eldar Vagabov has been Chief Innovation Officer since 2024 and is responsible for the Resulmatic, IT (Aures ICT), Project Office and Innovation teams of the holding company. Eldar has already built a successful global biotech startup in Singapore and the UK, where he introduced new generation of DNA tests on these markets. Since 2016, Mr. Vagabov has held various senior management positions, including the position of Group CEO of an international private healthcare group Eldar brings experience from the fields of business development, expansion and growth strategies, has a master‘s degree in Business and Law and speaks fluently in three languages.

Tech savvy leadership team

Viktor Cirbus

Viktor Cirbus

Group Digital Officer
Viktor Cirbus has been the Group Digital Officer since 2018 and oversees digital transformation within the Group. Since 2014, he has been responsible for the Data Science & Business Intelligence departments and projects that bring machine learning and automation to the Company's processes. From 2010 to 2014, he was Group Business Intelligence manager with a focus on establishing data-driven decision making and KPI’s that helped increase business performance across the Group's departments.

Before 2010, he held management positions in commercial controlling and finance departments at Electro World Central Europe and T-Mobile. He holds a Degree in Business Administration and Management from University of Economics in Bratislava.
Daniel Luňáček

Daniel Luňáček

Group Sales Director
Daniel Luňáček has held the position of Group Sales Director since April 2021.

He is responsible for strategically managing the Group’s branch network to improve the existing processes and modernize the auxiliary tools that lead to digitization of the sales division. An integral part of his daily agenda is working with sales managers with the help of his regional management to improve the efficiency of sales and after sales processes that lead to maximum satisfaction of our customers.

Daniel has been working for the company since 2001, beginning his career as a call centre representative where within two years he worked his way up to call centre manager in Slovakia. A year later, he moved to the sales division where he started as a site manager. Following several promotions in both the Slovak and Czech branches he became a regional manager and then Country manager for the Czech Republic.
Pavel Pospíšil

Pavel Pospíšil

Group Stock & Service Director
Pavel Pospíšil currently holds the position of the Group Stock & Service Director. He is in charge of managing the stock, service and transport department, determining the Group's strategy and setting KPIs for all subordinate departments. He began his career in the United States and joined the Group in 1999, gaining experience across several departments of the Company. He held the position of logistics manager for two years and graduated from the Mechanical Engineering High School in Prague.
Karel Smrž

Karel Smrž

Group Marketing & Communications Director
Karel Smrž is the Group Marketing & Communications Director and has held this position since 2020. Before joining the Group, he worked for Liberty Global (UPC in the CEE region), the largest worldwide fix networks operator from 2014 to 2019. He held various marketing management positions within the CEE region and was part of the management board for Czech and Slovak operation. More recently he was responsible for the group media buying in Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary and Romania. Mr. Smrž's previous experience also includes a four year engagement at global marketing agency, Ogilvy, based in their Czech office as Business Director responsible for key regional clients including Zentiva, Sanofi and Telefónica O2.
David Čížek

David Čížek

Group Office Operations Director
David joined AURES Holdings in 2018 as Group Office Operations Director. He is responsible for facility management, car transfers, company cars, construction, logistics, warehouse, archive, Security, development and travel agendas for senior executives. One of David’s major roles is to implement standard processes in all countries within the Group, to reduce operating costs. Another important task is the service for group development, which is supported by the construction and facility departments.

David previously worked with Intersnack Ltd., as the Director of Procurement and Investment, concurrently he was a lead buyer, responsible for purchasing flexible packaging in CEE and Austria and was a member of the Supervisory Board. Prior to Intersnack David worked in the pharmaceutical industry, where he worked as Chief Operating Officer.
Petr Havel

Petr Havel

Contact Center Director
Petr Havel joined AURES Holdings as Group CC Director in 2020. He has over twenty years of experience in contact centres. He has worked, among others, as Director of Call Centre Operations at Conectart, the largest BPO provider in the Czech Republic, and as Telesales Manager for SME customers at Telefonica O2. He is married and has one daughter.
Jiří Čabrádek

Jiří Čabrádek

Chief Information Officer
Jiří Čabrádek has been working in IT for more than 20 years, he has worked in all areas of IT, participated in the introduction and development of IT technologies in various companies and at the same time has been actively involved in this field for many years. In 2003 he joined AURES Holdings where he was the technology lead for call center innovations, leading IT projects for the group and subsequently various IT departments. Since 2016, he has held the position of Chief Information Officer and manages the company's IT division.
Jan Hrubý

Jan Hrubý

Managing Director
Mototechna Drive
Jan Hrubý is responsible for the complete strategy of the Mototechna division, budget management, margin management and other business objectives. His responsibilities include dealing with the Group's key suppliers and representing the company.

He started at AURES Holdings in 2009 as a luxury car analyst while he was still in college. He was involved in the group's expansion into Russia, where he was a supervisor of the valuation team. Since 2013, he has led a dedicated Segment Buying team that specializes in the purchase of pre-owned and luxury vehicles. This department then became a separate division Mototechna, where Jan has been Business Director since 2017. Since 2019, he has also been the Procurator of the innovative car rental company Mototechna Drive, which he co-founded.

Country management

Luboš Vorlík

Luboš Vorlík

Managing Director
Czech Republic & Slovakia
Luboš currently works as Managing Director for CZ & SK. He joined the company in 2003 as a sales representative. He quickly worked his way up to Branch Manager, Regional Sales Manager and Sales Manager for the Czech Republic. He graduated from the Secondary Technical and Agricultural School in Pilsen and has worked his entire professional life in sales. He has been responsible for the creation of many sales processes and reward schemes for sales positions within the company.
Miroslav Vápeník

Miroslav Vápeník

Managing Director
Poland
Miroslav Vápeník joined the company in 2007 as manager for the Auto Diskont brand. He gradually gained more responsibilities as Regional Sales Manager and Country Sales Manager for the Czech Republic. Since July 2023 he has been responsible for the Polish market as Managing Director. Miroslav is a former professional football player and has two daughters.
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