CV of Tomas Vanek
CEO and CFO
Global Business Leadership - Strategic Planning & Execution - Revenue Growth - EBIT Enhancement Program & Project Management - Benchmarking - M&A - Crisis Aversion - Business Turnaround
Senior-level executive and finance professional with over 15 years experience delivering results. Develops and executes overall company strategy, long-term financial planning, data-driven business performance management, and M&A initiatives to maximize revenue and growth through global business development initiatives, profit-producing strategies, sizable program and project management, reversing negative trends, turning around business, and improving pricing and EBIT. Achieves operational excellence by monitoring costs, optimizing business processes, directing benchmarking, leveraging resources, and establishing results-focused objectives.
Serves as a trusted strategist and collaborative business partner to corporate executives, board members, shareholders, consulting clients, Swiss and international counterparts, media personnel, and team members. Provides business and financial insights. Inspires others to identify untapped opportunities and devises innovative solutions by guiding multinational personnel and multi-disciplinary groups. Leverages adaptive leadership methodologies to motivate individuals and build employees focused on achieving aggressive goals and objectives.
Additional competencies include:
- Digital Transformation
- ERP Selection and Implementation or system development
- Business Planning, Analysis & Forecasting
- Financial Oversight, Budgeting, & Data Analysis
- Market Opportunity Identification
- Collaboration & Business Partnering
- Management Consulting & Knowledge Transfer
- Reorganization & Performance Improvement
Professional Background
CEO/CFO, Dimabay GmbH, Berlin and Munich, Germany
Since April 2023
With responsibility for Operations, Technology and Finance., my goals are to strengthen and further develop the successful advertisement agency and its motivated team, to give new impulses from my rich expertise in media and logistics, to improve business processes and technological platforms to accomodate further growth, to serve its customers even better and to improve profitability. Dimabay is a subsidiary of the Swedish group Storskogen.
CFO ad interim, LifeBonus GmbH, Hamburg, Germany
Since March 2022
Mandated by the CEO and Founder, I developed a business plan, set-up Finance and Controlling and finance processes, took responsibility for monthly closings and supported in financing negotiations.
Chief Consultant, Founder and CEO, TMUC The Most Useful Company
Since March 2022
Consultant Tomas Vanek supports companies that strive to succeed in Switzerland and internationally.
Head of Controlling 20 minutes, TX Group AG
February 2020 - March 2022
Overall responsibility for finances and controlling of the subgroup 20 minutes, the leading Swiss media brand with 350 employees and annual revenues of CHF 140M and Digital, Print and Radio activities in all 3 regions of Switzerland as well as consolidated activities in Austria and Luxemburg.
Head of Corporate Controlling and Consulting, TX Group AG
January 2018 - January 2020
Controlling of Corporate and Group Services, Technology and Real Estate Management of TX Group, a leading Swiss private media enterprise.
Head of Controlling Strategic initiatives Publishing Tamedia AG
January 2017 - December 2017
Financial aspects of reorganization of the paid media division with over 700 FTE. Group wide optimization projects. Enterprise acquisition and integration projects.
Senior Controller, Pricing Manager, Tamedia AG
November 2009 - December 2016
Responsible for strategic and operational planning of 26 daily and weekly newspapers with revenues of more than 300 million CHF and paid circulation of 400'000. Responsible for or participant in strategic projects ranging from cost saving initiatives to editorial processes, new media and IT implementation projects. Key role in media acquisitions and integrations.
Management Consultant
May 2008 - October 2009
Consultant and core team member for strategic projects of Tamedia in Zurich and Espace Media in Berne. New positioning of "Tages-Anzeiger" and "Der Bund", editorial processes and new organization for 400 journalists. Implementation of editorial systems. Project lead in streamlining editorial production processes of local newspapers "Thurgauer Zeitung", "Thuner Tagblatt" and "Berner Oberländer".
Work for media companies in Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Managing Director and Board Member, Ecopress as, Bratislava, Slovakia
February 2007 - April 2008
Crisis management and a successful turnaround of the company on behalf of the Czech publisher Economia and the German Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt. Ecopress with 120 FTE is the publisher of the Slovak economic daily and professional press. 2008 it was successfully sold to an investor.
Head of Corporate Project Management, PNS, Prague, Czech Republic
November 2004 - January 2007
Establishment of project management, responsibility for a successful selection and implementation of SAP FI/CO/SD as well as organisation and investment projects. PNS is a national distribution enterprise with 1000+ employees and revenues of CHF 300M serving 20K points of sales.
Publishing Director and Board Member, Lidové noviny, Prague, Czech Republic
1999 - 2004
Overall responsibility for the enterprise with 150 employees. "Lidove noviny" is the oldest Czech daily still in print and reached paid circulation of 120K. Personally involved with all editorial and publishing processes as well as marketing, advertisement sales, digitization. Successful transfer of ownership between Ringier and Rheinisch Bergische Verlagsgesellschaft. Integration of the company and brand in the leading Czech media group MAFRA.