Ondřej Benáček
Managing Director
FUND ROLE
Team leader, responsible for entire fund strategy, human resources, processes, standards and performance, leads and executes complex deals.
POST ACQUISITION ROLE
Business strategy, legal affairs.
INDUSTRY FOCUS
Aerospace, composites, energy, industrial automation, machine vision, SW for industrial applications.
EXPERIENCE
Ondřej has twenty years of experience in investment management. Throughout his career, he has worked with leading private equity funds, including six years at Penta Investments and five years at Innova Capital.
Ondřej also brings extensive expertise in the active management of industrial companies. He served on the board of directors of Aero Vodochody, where he was directly responsible for securing the Latecoere and C-Series business programs. In addition, he held the position of Managing Director at Rotortech Aero Composites (UK), was a member of the supervisory board of TES Vsetín, and served as Chairman of the Board at ELCOM (now part of Averna International).
Currently, Ondřej is Chairman of the Board at Jihlavan, Chairman of the Supervisory Board at AMiT Holding, and Chairman of the Supervisory Board at BLOCK and TIMOTEC Gruppe companies—portfolio companies under his management.
EDUCATION
Ondřej holds a degree in Quantitative Economics as well as a Law degree from Charles University, a Master’s Degree in Management and Strategy from USBE Sweden. He also studied MBA courses at Harvard University USA.
AERO VODOCHODY
Successful business development of the company via targeting orders from renowned Tier 1 OEM producers. Together with the operational restructuring, the strategy led to the restart of a traditional yet previously loss-making producer.
In figures, the strategy resulted in doubling the revenue and in a 20% increase in efficiency.
Involved team members:
Ondřej, Petr
TES Vsetín
The management of TES Vsetín company led to an increase in operational performance which is reflected in an EBITDA margin increase from 20% to 30%.
Strict cost control, implementation of lean management principles as well as an increase in revenues were key to the improved results.
Involved team members:
Ondřej
Jihlavan
Jihlavan is another example of a combination of operational improvements with successful business expansion.
Business relations with SLS customer have been developed thanks to a strategy targeted on becoming the supplier of choice for OEMs in the aerospace industry. Via SLS, Jihlavan now participates in deliveries to Airbus.
On the operational side, internal production capacities have been increased by one third due to the removal of bottlenecks in the production process and an increase in internal efficiency of 9%.
Involved team members:
Ondřej