Management changes in Financial Market Supervision Department II divisions

Three divisions are to be renamed and three division directors changed in Financial Market Supervision Department II at the Czech National Bank (CNB). Luděk Pestr will become director of the Enforcement Division, Jan Bridzik will head up the ICT and AML/CFT Risk Management Supervision Division and Tereza Kyliánová will take the helm of the Payment Services and Currency Exchange Supervision Division. The Bank Board decided on these appointments at its meeting on 14 March 2024, with effect from 1 April 2024.

Luděk Pestr graduated with a master’s degree in law from the Faculty of Law at Masaryk University in Brno in 2002. After completing his studies, he continued to work in the legal field at Brno-venkov District Authority, the Office for Government Representation in Property Affairs and the Office for the Protection of Competition. From July 2004 to April 2006, he worked in the Methodology and Analysis Division and the Enforcement Division at the Czech Securities Commission. Since the integration of financial market supervision into the CNB, he has worked in various legal positions at the CNB. From 2011, he led Enforcement Unit II. When the Licensing and Enforcement Department was incorporated into Financial Market Supervision Department II, he was put in charge of the Enforcement and Professional Standards Division.

Jan Bridzik graduated in computing from the University of Defence in 1998 and qualified as a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) in 2016. After completing his studies, he worked at the Ministry of Defence and in the Armed Forces of the Czech Republic between 1998 and 2016, mostly as a systems specialist and IT analyst. In August 2016, he joined ADP Employer Services ČR, where his job was to provide information system and process automation technical support. He has been working in Financial Market Supervision Department II at the CNB since October 2019. In October 2023, he was put in charge of IT Risks Unit I.

Tereza Kyliánová graduated in business economics and management from the Faculty of Economics at the University of West Bohemia in 2015. After completing her studies, she joined Kooperativa pojišťovna as a product manager. She has been working in Financial Market Supervision Department II at the CNB since 2017. In February 2020, she was put in charge of the On-Site Supervision Unit.

The new division structure is as follows:

651 – Consumer Credit Supervision Division
653 – Securities and Investment Firms Supervision Division
654 – Payment Services and Currency Exchange Supervision Division
655 – Retail Distribution Supervision Division
656 – Retail Distribution On-Site Supervision Division
657 – Fund Investment Supervision Division
658 – Enforcement Division
659 – ICT and AML/CFT Risk Management Supervision Division

Jakub Holas
Director, Communications Division