Promet Group has a new CEO
Denisa Matera, daughter of the company's founder René Matera, has been appointed. This move completes the period of handing over the management of the Group to the second generation of the Matera family. Denisa Materová will continue the development of Promet Group and its companies with an emphasis on investments strengthening the strengths of individual companies of the group and with the ambition of its organic and acquisitive growth in the future.
Denisa Materová joined Promet Group ten years ago. She was mainly devoted to the development of marketing, which she also led as director for three years. For the last five years she was also a member of the Board of Directors. After the death of her father, René Matera, in October last year, she began to manage the company together with her mother, Hana Materová, and the CFO, Martin Kamarád. Brother Radim Matera is a member of the supervisory board and is in charge of the management of the family assets. Denisa Materová now takes on the role of CEO.
"Appointing Denisa as CEO of our family business is the best choice for us. She knows the operational, personnel and investment history of the entire group. Moreover, with her experience in marketing and business, which she has been developing for ten years, she will certainly successfully build on the work of her father and company founder René Matera," says Hana Materová, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Promet Group, on the choice of CEO.
René Matera built Promet Group for more than thirty years. He started thinking about handing it over to his children about five years ago. They have therefore gradually become more and more involved in its operation and decision-making in the company's management, each in the areas entrusted to them. Denisa Materová in the commercial part of the company and as a member of the board of directors, brother Radim in the area of new technologies, family asset management and the supervisory board.
This is the beginning of a new era for the group, which, in addition to engineering, is also active in metallurgy and engineering. "I am very pleased to take over the responsibility for the management of the Promet Group. For me, it is a family legacy and the legacy of my father, who built it up over many years. I want to build on his work and continue to strengthen our position in the industries in which we operate. Together with the Board of Directors, we will work on the development of individual teams, build the company culture and create a quality and motivating work environment for our employees," Denisa Materová describes her plans after being elected to head the company. "Our common goal is also to further develop the competencies of the companies in the group. This is linked to investments in innovation and modernisation. All with the ambition to continue the organic and acquisitive growth of the Promet Group," adds Denisa Materová.
Denisa Materová studied marketing at the Hult International Business School in London.
