Written by: Klára Smolová
Photo: Věroslav Sixt, Aleš Vlachovský

Haunted Karlštejn – 01.11.2003
Restaurateur Nils Jebens loves to entertain guests. The first Saturday in November he organized a Halloween Golf Tournament at Karlštejn, with mandatory fancy dress. In the evening the “ghosts” met for a dinner party at Cihelna.

Robert Hessenberger (left), general director, West LB Bank and
Michael Kinsella, business development officer, Citibank

Euan Edworthy (vlevo), CEO, Best Communications Group, and Nils Jebens

Sebastian Pawlowski, owner of Copa, with his wife Katherine Butler, owner of Sparky’s

Kings of the castle – 04.11.2003
The gala award ceremony of Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year contest took place at the Prague Castle. The Czech entrepreneurial elite filled Rothmayer hall, and the speeches of the winners enlivened a classy evening.

Zbyněk Frolík (left), director, LINET, Entrepreneur of the Year 2003, emcee Martina Kociánová and
Kvido Štěpánek, director of Isolit-Bravo and Entrepreneur of the Year 2002

Zdeněk Bílek (left), business development manager, Ernst & Young and
Jiří Kunert, general director of Živnostenská banka

Finalists for 2003: Mojmír Čapka (left), general director and chairman of the board, Brisk Tábor,
and Miloslav Čermák, director of Sněžka Náchod

Zbyněk Frolík (left) with Dirk Kroonen, managing partner for CR, Ernst & Young

Fresh off the vine – 20.11.2003
Who better than the French to welcome the Beaujolais nouveau? Accor hotel group and Air France invited guests to hotel Mercure Prague for a tasting of this year’s production. To keep the young wine going to guests’ heads too fast, a variety of excellent cheeses and salads were served.

Michel Schotman (left), general director, Peugeot ČR and
Robert-Jan Woltering, general manager, Mercure Prague

Martin Ykema (left), general manager of hotel Novotel, Gabriela Sklenářová from the Ministry of Local Development and Weston Stacey, executive director of the American Chamber of Commerce

Gilles de Camaret (left), finance and administrative director, L’Oréal ČR and
Guillaume Bertier, general director, Ticket Restaurant

Christian Ramanoel (left), general director and chairman of the board, Credit Lyonnais Bank Praha and
Petr Knebl, CEO, Aon Česká republika