Radovan Kavicky

Radovan Kavicky

Financial Economist

Slovak Republic

Current
  • Fellow at Virtual Scientific Laboratories
Past

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Education
  • Faculty of National Economy, University of Economics in Bratislava
  • Business Academy Dudova
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Radovan Kavicky’s Summary

Financial economist and financial market specialist with a strong analytical & mathematical background and also experience in media.

Native language Slovak & Czech; Fluent English & German (English on IELTS 8.0 level, German actively); Basic knowledge of Russian, Hebrew, French, Latin and Italian.

My motto:
"The free man will ask neither what his country can do for him, nor what he can do for his country." (Milton Friedman)

Radovan Kavicky’s Specialties:

Finance, Banking, Financial and Law Analyses, Accdounting, Information technologies, Media Relations

Advanced communication and presentation skills. Good knowladge of Slovak Accounting and Tax Rules.
Business licence (2007-present).

Computer skills:
Microsoft Office (ECDL), advanced internet skills; Econometric and statistics software – SAS, Matlab, Eviews, R, Statgraphics;

Member of the professional jury Zlata minca.

Radovan Kavicky’s Experience

  • Fellow

    Virtual Scientific Laboratories

    (Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

    September 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

    Responsible mostly for educational projects, online communication and media relations

    Virtual Scientific Laboratories is a modern, non-profit organization with the primary purpose of facilitating development, implementation and dissemination of knowledge in the area of economic and behavioral sciences. Motivation is to advocate economic principles in formation of institutions and policies in the rapidly changing region of Central and Eastern Europe.

    http://virtualsciencelab.org/en/index.php

  • PR Manager

    Neopublic Porter Novelli

    (Public Company; OMC; Public Relations and Communications industry)

    February 2009 — July 2009 (6 months)

    Responsible mostly for Financial clients.
    This involved:
    • introducing new communications channels (social media, micro sites, internal blogs, online magazine),
    • advertising,
    • media relations,
    • creating and setting up communication strategies and campaignes,
    • presenting communication concept to client,
    • reporting activities to client.

    Certificate – PNPoints Insights 2009

    Porter Novelli is a global public relations leader, was founded in 1972 and is a part of Omnicom Group Inc (NYSE: OMC). Selected 2009 PRWeek Agency to Watch as well as the 2008 winner of PR Innovation of the Year, Porter Novelli is the most large agency in the social media space. With 100 offices in 60 countries.

    http://www.neopublic.sk, http://www.porternovelli.com

  • Blogger

    Blogosfere

    (Privately Held; Internet industry)

    January 2007 — July 2009 (2 years 7 months)

    Author of one of the most popular blogs in Slovakia – Radovan Kavicky’s Blog (http://kavicky.blogspot.com)
    Many articles also on Blog of Faculty of National Economy (http://tinyurl.com/nhfblog): 1st prize for the most readed and best valuated article, nomination to 2009 European Young Journalist Award (http://www.eujournalist-award.eu/)

    Many published articles (mainly about economics) in media, for example:
    http://www.tyzden.sk/sk/kriticka_priloha/kriza_ako_dosledok_rozdrobenosti_vlastnictva.php
    http://www.ineko.sk/file_download/230/Slovensko+2006.pdf
    http://www.ineko.sk/file_download/318/SLOVENSKO+2007.pdf
    http://www.ineko.sk/file_download/464/Slovakia-2008-web.pdf
    http://ake.institute.sk/file.php/2/9._seminar/Kavicky_ESEJ_def.pdf
    http://www.konzervativizmus.sk/upload/pdf/Kavicky_ESEJ_2009.pdf
    http://tinyurl.com/hnradovankavicky
    http://www.aegon.sk/upload/Pat_rokov_na_Slovensku_1228837166.pdf
    http://www.axa-sk.com/data/Documents/Links/Mediamonitoring%20z%20080908.pdf
    http://www.zlataminca.sk/dok/tlacova_sprava_vysledky2008.pdf
    2 times chosen on headline of vybrali.sme.sk for these articles:
    http://kavicky.blogspot.com/2007/08/nobelova-cena-za-ekonmiu-ale-kdee-vek.html
    http://kavicky.blogspot.com/2009/07/preco-trhy-zlyhavaju-moze-nam.html

  • Vice President and Co-Founder

    Toastmasters Slovakia

    (Non-Profit; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

    July 2008 — May 2009 (11 months)

    Co-Foundation of first Toastmasters club in Slovakia (with Klaus Hammer, former CEO at McDonald’s Slovakia). Responsible mostly for communication, media relations and marketing activities.

    Toastmasters is non-profit organization, which organize lectures mainly for managers about rhetoric and public speaking. The mission of a Toastmasters is to provide a mutually supportive and positive learning environment in which every member has the opportunity to develop communication and leadership skills, which in turn foster self-confidence and personal growth. Toastmasters help people lose the fear of public speaking and learn skills that will help them be more successful in whatever path you have chosen.
    http://www.toastmasters.org/, http://www.toastmasters.sk/

  • Economic Editor (HNonline.sk, FinWeb.sk)

    Ecopress, a. s.

    (Newspapers industry)

    September 2008 — February 2009 (6 months)

    Responsible mostly for preparation and running (technical aspects and also content) of new financial portal FinWeb.
    This involved:
    • editing and writing economic articles (for HN, HNonline, and FinWeb), mostly about financial market and actual activity on market,
    • adjustment of website through internal CMS,
    • communication with banks, insurance companies, stockbrokers as for potential co-operation,
    • online communication a preparation of communication strategy as for FinWeb and HNonline (including social media),
    • preparation actual topics and co-ordinating them with colleagues from HN and HNonline,

    Ecopress, a. s. is a publisher of Hospodarske noviny (Slovak major economic daily).

    http://www.finweb.sk, http://www.hnonline.sk

  • Project Manager

    Visegrad Business Community

    (Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

    February 2008 — December 2008 (11 months)

    Responsible mostly for communicating activities of VBC to public in CEE region, developing implementing projects (mostly educational).

    Presentation of activites on Barcamp conference: http://video.joj.sk/barcamp.html

    The Visegrad Business Community is a combination of two social forces:

    - An organisation committed to maximizing the economic, political and social potential of the post-communist European countries; particularly the enormous potential we see in the young Central European generation.
    - A global social network connecting a community of successful Central European professionals with professionals from the rest of the world.

    We see enormous human potential in Central Europe and believe that greatest positive change in this region can be achieved by promoting and supporting micro-entrepreneurship, professional development, transparency, scientific education and research.

    Most of the members of the Visegrad Business Community are either students or alumni of universities such as Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge, Princeton, LSE, Upenn and others.

  • HESO Project - Evaluation of Economic and Social Measures

    INEKO (Institute for Economic and Social Reforms)

    (Non-Profit; Think Tanks industry)

    August 2006 — December 2008 (2 years 5 months)

    Responsible for creating analyses (law, but also economic) of actual legislature and the impacts of new government laws on slovak economy.
    Participation (as an author) on three publications published in years 2006 - 2009.
    http://www.ineko.sk/file_download/230/Slovensko+2006.pdf
    http://www.ineko.sk/file_download/318/SLOVENSKO+2007.pdf
    http://www.ineko.sk/file_download/464/Slovakia-2008-web.pdf

    HESO (Evaluation of Economic and Social Measures) project creates a platform, where independent economists, analysts, journalists, academics, people from business community, representatives of trade unions, employers' associations and NGOs express their opinions on quality and importance of different proposed and passed economic and social measures of legislature, executive power, as well as on decisions of public institutions on a quarterly basis.

    http://www.ineko.sk/static/heso_en/index.php

  • Financial Planning Advisor

    ING

    (Public Company; ING; Financial Services industry)

    August 2007 — September 2008 (1 year 2 months)

    Responsibile for devise long term plans and objectives of the client and to search for the optimal financial products combination based on analysis of the clients needs and possibilities.

    NBS licence for selling bank products and insurance, including stock broker licence.

    ING was the first ever foreign financial holding company which in 1991 through ING Bank N. V. invested own funds to invest in Slovakia. Today, ING in Slovak Republic offers products and services in the field of corporate and retail banking, life and pensions and savings, as well as ever-increasing investment and asset management.

    http://www.ing.sk/

  • Back Office

    Dexia

    (Public Company; DEXB; Banking industry)

    2004 — 2005 (1 year )

    Mostly administrative work.

    Dexia banka Slovensko provides a complete range of financial services and products, from
    personal banking to investment to corporate or municipality financing.

    http://www.dexia.sk/

  • Finance Department

    Volkswagen

    (Public Company; VW; Automotive industry)

    2003 — 2004 (1 year )

    Administrative work, facturation, accounting.

    Volkswagen Slovakia is member of the German factory group VW AG, which produces passenger
    cars. Currently, Bratislava completely manufactured cars Volkswagen Touareg, Audi Q7 and Skoda
    Octavia.

    http://www.vw.sk/

Radovan Kavicky’s Education

  • Faculty of National Economy, University of Economics in Bratislava

    Ing. (MA, cum laude) , Finance, Banking and Investment. Specialization: Finance , 2004 — 2009

    Certificate – Academy of Classical Economics I 2007/2008 (1st place for best essay)
    Certificate – Academy of Classical Economics II 2008/2009
    Certificate – Workshop: New Venture Finance delivered by Rodolphe M. Valee, Martin Bruncko and Ann Meceda (U. S. Embassy)
    Certificate – Workshop on Experimental Economy delivered by Bart Wilson (George Mason University, 2008)
    Certificate – Workshop on Public Economics and Economic Freedom delivered by Dan Mitchell and Marian L. Tupy (Cato institute, 2008)
    Certificate – Workshop: Role of the law in process of monetary succession delivered by Georg Winkler (rector Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, 2008)
    Certificate – Workshop: On Macroeconomics and Real Business Cycles delivered by Nobel Prize 2004 laureate, prof. Edward C. Prescott (Arizona State University, 2009)
    IELTS 8.0 certificate
    Certificate – ECDL (three modules finished – Word, Excel, Internet)
    1st academic citation: http://is.bivs.cz/th/8339/bivs_m/DP.pdf (pages 17 and 81)

    Activities and Societies:
    As an excellent student I was accepted to the university without entrance examination (three faculties – Faculty of National Economy, Faculty of Commerce and Faculty of Business Management).
    Final thesis: Entrance to eurozone and adoption of the euro in Slovakia, possible impacts on economy. Risks, advantages and disadvantages of monetary policy delegation (on ECB).
    2004 – 2007 Member of University handball team and representation of the university in Paris (2007)

  • Business Academy Dudova

    Graduation (summa cum laude/with honors) , Banking, Finance, Accounting , 2000 — 2004

    Activities and Societies:
    As an excellent student I was accepted to the high school without entrance exams.
    Winner of several Mathematical Olympiads. Member of High-School Soccer Team (as a goalkeeper), which won many tournaments.

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Radovan Kavicky’s Interests:

books (economics, psychology, philosophy, history), rhetoric, music (mainly jazz, swing, blues, soul), bicycle, futsal Professional and Academic interests: financial econometrics, advanced statistics, behavioral economics and finance, neuroeconomics, monetary economics

Radovan Kavicky’s Groups:

Bratislava Economic Club (founder), Academy of Classical Economics, Club of Economists at University of Economics, Slovak Economic Society, Mensa, New Acropolis, Virtual Scientific Laboratories, Toastmasters International, Ron Paul Meetup Group

  •    IASE
  •    The Friends of Israel
  •    Mensa - International
  •    Czech & Slovak Professional Community
  •    biz SLOVAKIA
  •    Finance Professionals Slovakia
  •    ING Network
  •    Toastmasters Slovakia
  •    University of Economics in Bratislava
  •    Web 2.0 Slovak
  •    PR & Media Slovensko a Čechy
  •    Economic Psychology & Behavioural Economics
  •    HR JOBLIFE Slovakia

Radovan Kavicky’s Honors:

Member of the professional jury of Golden Coin (Zlatá minca, 2008 and also 2009) (http://www.zlataminca.sk/porota2008.html)

As an excellent student I was accepted to the university and to high school without entrance examination.

Master's degree in Finance (cum laude) and also graduation in Banking and Finance (cum laude).

Author of one of the most popular blogs in Slovakia – Radovan Kavicky’s Blog (http://kavicky.blogspot.com)
Many articles also on Blog of Faculty of National Economy (http://tinyurl.com/nhfblog): 1st prize for the most readed and best valuated article, nomination to 2009 European Young Journalist Award (http://www.eujournalist-award.eu/)

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