This is to inform you that on November 1, 2020, Petr Kohout joined APS Group as Group Chief Financial Officer in November 2020.

Petr has more than 25 years of experience in financial services industry both in the Czech Republic and internationally. He started off as a M&A advisory and strategy-development consultant and later assumed numerous CxO roles in B2C and B2B lending providers. He spent 12 years in Société Générale Group, where he served (among other roles) as a CEO of its consumer finance subsidiary in Vietnam. Petr acted as a Group CFO of Homecredit, the largest POS financing provider in the world and worked also for names like PricewaterhouseCoopers and ING.

Petr is a graduate of the Prague School of Economics and Colorado State University. He speaks English, French and Russian.

Petr traveled extensively both in the Northern America and South-East Asia. He is a keen golfer and likes playing soccer, basketball and ball games in general. He has a 2.5 year old daughter, who requires also quite a bit of his spare time.