Who we are

David is a partner in our company. He is responsible for clients who use our investigative services and business reporting. His clients are mainly Private Equity funds, law firms, FMCG companies and manufacturing companies.

David is the author of a unique solution for automated risk analysis - SCAUT.cz - which was named security project of the year by a Czech subsidiary of the international association ASIS International.

He has extensive experience of investigating employee criminality, forensic audits and designing and implementing fraud prevention systems. David previously worked in the Department of Fraud Investigation and Dispute settlement in Ernst & Young. He also worked in the BlueLink company, a subsidiary of Air France.

Leopold is a manager responsible for the area of corruption, prevention and investigation of fraudulent behavior and economic crime in the private and public sector. He gives lectures on these subjects to professionals and non-professionals from various educational institutions, public organizations and private entities.

For more than 15 years, Leopold has been working in the field of highly professional security area focusing mainly on corruption, economic and financial criminality, crimes against the financial interests of EU and money laundering.

Between 2008 and 2013, he worked for the Police of the Czech Republic as the Head of the corruption and protection of EU interests responsible for combating corruption and financial crime. Leopold managed a team of 50 specialists focusing on the investigation of the most serious cases in the Czech Republic.

Ivan is a partner in our company and he is responsible for the development of activities in Central and Eastern European markets. Currently, he is devoted mainly to the development and management of activities of our subsidiary in Slovakia.

He focuses on international projects investigating large corruption cases, employee criminality and organized crime. Ivan also specializes in providing services to foreign corporations which have become a target of attacks by organized criminal groups.

After leaving the Czech diplomatic service, where he was a delegate during UN disarmament negotiations in Geneva, he became one of the founders of a unit to combat organized crime in the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic and later in the Czech Republic. He was also responsible for co-operation with member countries using the specialized services of Interpol. Ivan then worked as an AML and risk management specialist in the banking sector. For several years, he held the position of global chief of Compliance and internal audit for a leading world manufacturer of pottery. He is a co-founder and partner in a Swiss consulting company specialized in management consulting and risk management. From this position, for the last 15 years, he has co-ordinated important greenfield projects for multinational corporations entering markets in Central and Eastern Europe. He has also held executive posts in those companies.

Josef is a manager and executive head of our Slovak subsidiary. He specializes in projects in the area of personal risk management and business reporting. He also focuses on the Pre‑Employment Screening service, which he promotes and of which he is a guarantor in Slovakia. Josef is also active in the development of security projects and providing professional services in the field of security logistics and loss prevention.

Josef has a degree in psychology and during the investigation process, he specializes in providing psychological services, conducting anamnestic interviews, profiling of the offenders personality, analysis of the scene of the crime and other related psychodiagnostics services.

Formerly, he held a post of director of a private security agency where he devoted himself to consulting in the area of personal security. Before that, he worked for several years in a managerial position in a specialized unit of the Foreign Police of the Police of the Slovak Republic.

Honza is a consultant focusing on the areas of Business Intelligence, investigative activities and company marketing.

During his university studies of journalism and media, Honza started profiling as an investigative analyst. For four years he worked as a reporter for the Czech Centre for Investigative Journalism, a media nonprofit specializing in covering cross-border organized crime, where his main area of interest was data analysis and visualization. One of the most important projects he had a chance to work on was the largest data leak in history known as the Panama Papers. For his project ideas concerning data analysis and visualization, Honza was twice nominated as one of three finalists of the Google Award for Young Talents in Data Journalism, handed out by the Prague branch of the Open Society Fund as a part of their Journalism Awards competitition.

As a reporter and a fact-checker, Honza has also collaborated with several international organizations, including another media nonprofit, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), a nonprofit analytical organization C4ADS (Centre for Advanced Defense Studies) or the Poynter Institute, a nonprofit specializing in journalism education and establishing the International Fact-checking Network.