M&A
Eva Kováčová as the leader of the M&A division brings more than 15 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry with a diversified skill set and background. She has led multi-bilion carve outs and created JV companies in EMEA and LATAM regions. She was responsible for the entire carve-out process including setting up new legal entities, transferring people, assets, contracts, marketing authorisations/CE mark, ERP implementation, office relocations, manufacturing site transfer, artwork change etc. She has worked as a Director Corporate Development for one of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies, where she worked on various M&A deals prior to their signing. Prior to that she worked as In-Licensing Director for the CEE region and Country Finance Director.
Eva is ACCA qualified and has a degree in Finance and International Trade from the Economic University in Bratislava, Slovakia. She is fluent in English, Slovak, Czech and Russian.
Contact: eva.kovacova (at) aqbios.com
Michal is a Junior Project Manager with strong analytical, organizational and interpersonal skills. He is qualified project manager (CAPM), currently studying ACCA and eager to pursue his future career in M&A integration project management. An ethical and pragmatic individual, with a sense of humour who is always willing to embrace new challenges. He is fluent in English, Slovak and Czech and speaks German as well.
Contact: michal.cesnak (at) aqbios.com
Aquatic Ecology
Vladimír Kováč (Professor of biology and ecology at Comenius University, Bratislava) has been dealing with implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive for more than ten years. His activities are devoted mainly to fish biology and ecology, including the assessment of ecological status of water bodies based on fish communities. In 2007 he participated at the Joint Danube Survey 2 as one of key experts for fish ecology from Slovakia. In 2013 and 2019 he took the role of leading expert for fish ecology and manager of the Slovak team during the Joint Danube Survey 3 and Joint Danube Survey 4.
V. Kováč is the leading author of the National method for assessment of ecological status of water bodies based on fish communities (WFD; Kováč 2008, 2010, 2015). This method is based on the multimetric index (Fish Index of Slovakia; FIS) that has been applied successfully in the assessment of ecological status of water bodiesin Slovakia. In 2008-2011 V. Kováč represented Slovakia in the process of intercalibration of national methods „River Fish Intercalibration“. In 2009 he became the leader of the Danubian Geographical Intercalibration Group (Austria, Slovakia, Czechia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria). As the key expert he has been managing the monitoring of fish communities in surface water bodies of Slovakia (projects in 2011-2012, 2015 a 2018-2020, a total of over 1 000 sites). He has published more than 70 scientific papers in referred journals, and provided invited lectures at universities and/or conferences in Czechia, Austria, France, UK, Canada and USA.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vladimir_Kovac/publications
Contact: vladimir.kovac (at) aqbios.com