People of APS

Martin, the Chairman of the Board and CEO of APS Group, founded APS in 2004. He is responsible for the overall strategy and direction of APS Group and its businesses. With over 21 years of experience in distressed debt management, investment, and advisory, he has overseen APS Group’s operations since its inception. In 2015, he became the sole owner of APS Group. Martin earned his MBA degree from the University of Rochester, New York.

Petr has more than 25 years of experience in financial services industry both in the Czech Republic and internationally. He spent 12 years in Société Générale Group and acted also as a CEO of its consumer finance subsidiary in Vietnam. Prior to joining APS, he acted as a Group CFO of Homecredit, the largest POS financing provider in the world and worked also for PriceWaterhouseCoopers and ING.

Roman has been working in APS for more than 8 years: initially as the Head of Recovery in APS CZ&SK, later in Business Development establishing new APS Recovery subsidiaries and since 2020 he took over also the responsibility for the teams covering ‘Under 5’ investment projects, HR, Reporting and Business systems. And then he acted as COO of APS Recovery. He graduated from University of Economics in Prague.

Viktor is leading the APS investment team in Bratislava and Bucharest and joined the Investment team in 2013. Viktor is managing acquisitions across all the markets where APS is active or expanding and has experience with the wide spectrum of distressed assets. Prior to joining APS, Viktor was working for more than seven years in private equity. Viktor served as the Head of Fund Administration at Munich Private Equity Partners, prior to that Viktor was working with Swiss Re Private Equity Partners.

Tereza is responsible for managing internal legal services across Europe and coordinating external legal advisors. She joined APS in 2015 after spending 5 years at Clifford Chance and 2 years at Allen and Overy Prague, where she focused on cross border M&A, corporate and anti-trust law. In 2013 she qualified as advocate registered with Czech Bar Association.

Mihai re-joined us in 2022 and taking on responsibilities as a Transactions Leader. He was previously with APS Investments for five years before spending three years at Balbec Capital in a regional transaction role. Prior to that, Mihai led M&A transactions for EY and a boutique investment bank for 11 years.