Daniel Křetínský, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Daniel Křetínský

Czech lawyer and businessman

Date of Birth: 09-Jul-1975

Place of Birth: Brno, South Moravian Region, Czech Republic

Profession: lawyer, entrepreneur

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Daniel Křetínský

  • Daniel Kretínský (born 9 July 1975) is a Czech entrepreneur and lawyer who is the chief executive officer (CEO) and majority owner of Energetický a prumyslový holding (EPH) and co-owner and president of football club AC Sparta Prague. His father is Mojmír Kretínský, informatics professor at Masaryk University, his mother Michaela Židlická, lawyer and judge of Constitutional Court.He graduated from the Faculty of Law of Masaryk University and started to work as legal trainee in law firm.
  • In 1999, he joined J&T as lawyer and became a partner in 2003.
  • Since 2004 he is chairman of football club AC Sparta Prague and he is believed to be its 40% shareholder.When in 2009 J&T founded Energetický a prumyslový holding, he became its chairman and 20% shareholder.
  • He also ceased to be partner of J&T.
  • In 2011, he became chairman and 60% shareholder of EP Industries, that was divested from EPH.
  • From 2014 he is one of the owners of Czech media house Czech News Center, among others publisher of tabloid Blesk, that is the most read newspaper in the Czech Republic. In October 2018, staff at Le Monde learned that Kretínský had purchased 49% of Matthieu Pigasse's stake in the company.
  • Le Monde's Independency Group, a minority shareholder that aims to protect the paper's editorial independence, had not been informed of the sale, and asked Pigasse and Kretínský to sign an "approval agreement" that would give the Independency Group the right to approve or reject any controlling shareholder.
  • As of September 2019, they had not done so.

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