Vera Koubkova

Věra was born in the Czech Republic. After gaining her Masters degree in Mathematics in 1997, she joined Andersen Consulting (later Accenture) in Prague. Věra has been living in the UK since 2000, working as a consultant and a project manager leading international change and software implementation projects in the UK, Europe and Russia. Until 2009 she held a senior management position at Barclays Commercial Bank.

Whilst studying for her MBA, she set up a consulting company FIFTY’TEN Ltd. She now works as an independent management consultant and focuses on international project leadership, project delivery and management training. Since 2011 she also works as a university lecturer at the BPP Business School, European School of Economics and St Patrick's College in London, leading postgraduate classes in Project Management, Quantitative Business Methods and Economics.

Věra is an Executive Committee member of the British Czech Chamber of Commerce and a founder and a trustee of a charity organization Kipepeo Foundation that sponsors educational projects for orphans and disadvantaged children from the Kenyan coast.

• PRINCE2 Practitioner (2007)

• TEFL - Teaching English as a Foreign Language (2006)

• English

  (Native or bilingual proficiency)

• Czech

  (Native or bilingual proficiency)

• Russian

  (Limited working proficiency)

• Spanish

  (Elementary proficiency)

• Volunteer Experience

  • Founder & Director

    Kipepeo Foundation

    • Children
    2007 – present (5 years)

    Kipepeo Foundation is a small charity supporting Africans in their initiatives to improve education for orphaned and disadvantaged children in Kenya. We aim to reduce marketing and administrative overheads by emphasizing direct personal connections and involvement in small projects.
    
    I run the charity together with my husband and with support from friends, relatives and colleagues. Please visit us on www.kipepeofoundation.org.uk.
    Thank you.

Websites:

• My Charity: Kipepeo Foundation
• Czech Chamber of Commerce, UK

Interests:

Travel and foreign cultures, photography, SCUBA diving, academic reading, my two cats. I'm a keen, albeit incompetent, gardener.

Groups and Associations:

Project Management Institute, UK Chapter Czech British Chamber of Commerce, London, UK British Chamber of Commerce, Prague, Czech Republic STEM network

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  Accenture Employees and Alumni
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  Banking Connects
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  Banking Technology Professionals
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  Czech Expats
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  DESERTEC
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  Excenture
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  MFF UK
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  People Deliver Projects
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  Project Management Institute - UK Chapter
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  Project Zone - Project Management Excellence Network
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  W-Tech 2009 - Women in IT event