Marek Tichý
Marek is the founder of INVISORY and acts as an Executive Director in the company with responsibility for all M&A processes, deal structuring, and process management.
Before founding INVISORY, he worked at Raiffeisenbank a.s., which he joined in 2004. Marek reported to the bank’s Board of Directors as Executive Director of Corporate Finance with responsibility for M&A transactions and securities issues, including bond issues, both in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. He and his team were responsible for the implementation of more than a hundred client M&A transactions, including the acquisition of eBanka and City Bank, which involved the purchase of the entire retail banking division together with the portfolio of card business, branches, and ATM network. With these transactions, Marek contributed to the bank’s further significant growth in the Czech Republic. Marek was also instrumental in unlocking the Slovak market and the “cross-sell” between Raiffeisenbank and Tatra banka on the M&A front, having assembled the Slovak team and secured a strong pipeline between 2017 and 2020.
Mark’s professional experience goes back to 1992 when he started working as a trader for Rentia Capital a.s., which was a founding member of the Prague Stock Exchange. Then, in 1998, he joined Brno Broker Group a.s., which became the second-largest securities trader in the Czech Republic within five years. As part of the company’s divestment, in which Marek participated, it became part of J&T Bank a.s. For many years he was a member of the Listing Committee of the Prague Stock Exchange and also participated in preparing the new Czech stock market for small and medium-sized enterprises, PX START, which became part of the Prague Stock Exchange.