Management of ABC

Ondřej Frydrych, Partner

As one of the core Adastra employees specializing in business consulting, Ondřej Frydrych has established Adastra Business Consulting as an independent company within Adastra Group. As the company’s founder and partner, he defines the strategic vision for Adastra Business Consulting and creates the conditions to achieve them. He combines his skills in understanding and delivering procedural, organizational and systematic solutions to meet the needs and expectations of corporate executives. Although he started his professional career in IT in such positions as web project manager and Chief Technology Officer, he gained renown as a leading expert in management and entrepreneurship. He is still a driving force behind ABC projects as he advises leading financial institutions in the area of risk management (collections) and large IT system feasibility studies in both the Czech Republic and abroad including the USA, Russia, Kazakhstan, Vietnam, and Ukraine.

Ondřej received his MBA title from the Rochester (USA) Institute of Technology, diplomas in Computer Science from the Dublin Institute of Technology and in technical cybernetics from the Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic. He is a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, an honor society for business students and scholars, which fosters ethical business leadership, as well as being a member of the honor society of Phi Kappa Phi, the oldest, largest and most selective all-discipline honor society in the United States.

Tomáš Kočka, Partner

As partner of Adastra Business Consulting, Tomáš Kočka uniquely combines his understanding of modern business philosophies with an extensive knowledge of advanced computer technologies in Data Mining. He is a renowned expert on risk and fraud management in banking, and in the insurance and telecommunications sectors. He has participated in numerous international business-oriented projects in Canada, Denmark, Italy, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Russia, Ukraine and China amongst others. Based on his strategic advice, Home Credit Group, the leading provider of consumer financing in the markets of Central and Eastern Europe and Middle Asia, significantly reduced fraud losses in less than one year.
Tomáš is an in-demand speaker at many financial and IT conferences and also contributes to international and Czech trade media.

He received his Ph.D. degree at the University of Economics in Prague. He was awarded the Dean’s prize for the best Ph.D. student presentation.

Jana Kolářová, Director of Marketing Consulting

Jana Kolářová has vast experience in telecommunications and banking, specifically in the field of marketing. In the telecommunications sector she specialised in marketing in both mobile and fixed business and its convergence. Throughout her marketing career, she held various managerial and leading positions while developing retention, CRM, segment marketing and analytical teams. She oversaw the full customer life cycle ranging from acquisition to development and retention, including extensive loyalty programs and initiatives.

Jana received her Honors Degree in Technical Cybernetics from the Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic.