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I humbly lead a ~<50 ppl team of mathematicians and programmers who have been developing a proprietary trading algorithm for all relevant derivatives exchanges that is now being run and supervised by a major prop trading firm. We serve as a software provider and consultants, tirelessly improving the whole thing and ourselves. Our software runs 24/7 and trades -among other things- probably all futures you can name.

Saving the planet by making energy markets better. Through our fully owned subsidiariesSecond Foundation Trading (whole of Europe, US, Japan)in.power (German RESS and BESS marketing)Nano Energies (CEE flexibility aggregator)We are probably the biggest intraday trader in the European continuous intraday power market by volume, as well as flexibility and ancillary services provider. We optimize, steer and market renewable assets as well as provide our customers - asset owners in Europe - with other innovative monetization streams. During 2024 we have started building our own BESS portfolio in Germany.

Equilibre aim at totally disrupting investing with their bringing reinforcement learning to another level of complexity.

Transforming scientific work into genuine artificial intelligence solutions. Currently focusing on VIVIDI - an ingenious piece of hardware that understands a lot of what it sees and transforms it into valuable data. You can see the hardware cruising Prague and being responsible for correct parking, for example.

Emotional as well as financial investment into a place where I spent a lot of time in my childhood (no golf course back then!), organised my first ever team-building (and several others since) and even got married (the best day of my life until kids were born).

Family foundation trying to help where we find it wise and impactful. Examples: Music: Czech Philharmonic, Suzuki school, Arts: Libensky / Brychtova heritage, Local initiatives: Polubensky Jan, Vilduv mlyn, etc.

Nano Energies empower you to live in sync with the Earth. We aim for a sustainable energy environment through aggregating flexibility and decentralizing energy supply in the grid, as well as green energy supply. We provide ancillary services and flexibility through several aggregation blocks, combining cogeneration units, biogas plants, diesels, greenhouses, freezers etc. I became the sole owner of Nano Energies in August 2023.I have sold the flexibility aggregator and AnS provider to Second Foundation in February 2024.I have divested the Retailer Nano Green (now Delta Green) and became a minority shareholder, together with a few VCs. The company shifts to retail flexibility and has a completely new leadership driving this change.

With the whole team from Qminers we moved under a much bigger roof for a few years to get everything up and running. Our software runs 24 hours a day on three continents with >100% profits and Sharpe >10, making markets - more efficient, more liquid, better. MifidII and other business needs meant restructuring and dividng development and supervision. Supervision and operations staid at Tower. Development of the software is back at Qminers.

Owners nominated me to Šporkovský palác, a.s.; Palác Národní, a.s.; Maninské Břehy, a.s.; MedPort, a.s. and Sebre, a.s. My role was mainly formal, the owners personally communicated with the management on a regular basis.

partly at UTIA CAS, dissertation on jump processes in econometrics, teaching stochastic calculus in finance.I have dropped out of my PhD. program to focus on other career goals. I received an MPhil. degree.

Started as a market analyst specialized in various generally nonlinear regressions trying to uncover market inefficiencies. Also studied central banks policies in an attempt to algorithmically capture the main features of the news conferences into predictions. As of 2011/01 I became a team lead - with the team we developed a thorough backtest framework, formulated and backtested a strategy based on extracting a latent fair price from the observed tick by tick quotes and trades, we designed a trading GUI, communicated the implementation of all the features connected with HFT with specialized programmers etc.Due to some management needs I continued my work from iMath with the team under a new company name - Imperis Invest.Those of us with their background closer to finance needed to control the algorithm behaviour at the exchange - for this purpose I obtained a sort of an Eurex platform trader certification and learned all the neccessary details in Bloomberg handling.When deploying the strategy at a main european exchange I quitted for reasons not directly connected to my position.

information security projects, it audits - both specialized and as part of financial audits, various advisory projects - mainly an excel based business case for a tertiary education reform and students loans funding.

Various analysis of the portfolio - finding the most efficient hedging strategies for high yield distressed opportunities, risk measures and a VBA implementation of some of them into an Excel portfolio control sheet, verification of some statistical arbitrage trading strategies. Refereeing two intuitive trading strategies via risk neutral pricing in a binomial tree etc.