CEZ will continue to be led by Daniel Beneš – Novinky

Beneš’ current mandate expires at the end of next year. Beneš has been in charge of ČEZ since 2011, when he replaced then-director Martin Roman at the age of forty-one.

ČEZ is the largest energy company in the Czech Republic, its majority shareholder is the state, which owns approximately 70 percent of the shares through the Ministry of Finance.

Last year, the company recorded a net profit of 29.6 billion crowns, which meant a year-on-year drop of 63 percent. The main reason was extraordinary taxes and fees, for which the company paid about 40 billion crowns.

Daniel Beneš graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Mining in Ostrava a Brno Business School at Nottingham Trent University.

In the years 1993 – 1997, he worked as a sales manager at Bohemiacoal, and then he was a director of Hedviga Group. From 2000, he managed the Tchas center, which trades in fuel, for four years. From there, he moved to ČEZ to join Roman, whom he knew from his student years in Ostrava.

Beneš joined ČEZ in 2004 as director of the purchasing department. In 2006, he became the director of the administrative department. In 2007, he became the executive director, and in 2009 he was elected vice-chairman of the board of directors of ČEZ Obnovintelne zdroje, and in June of the following year he became vice-chairman of the board of directors of company.