- About us
- Our management team
Our management team
Reinhold Knödl
Managing Director, CEO
Reinhold Knödl holds a degree from VWA University in Regensburg. He began his career at Sparkasse Regensburg, where he worked in the risk audit department and later in risk management. In 1989, he joined GEFA, a Deutsche Bank leasing company, as regional sales manager. Five years later, he joined the international marketing team at Deutsche Credit Corporation, a Deutsche Bank subsidiary in Chicago. From 1996, he was involved, as CEO, in developing Deutsche Bank’s leasing business in the Czech Republic, and, from 1998, in Slovakia as well. In 2001, the company was acquired by Société Générale Group.
Eva Jiránková
Authorised Signatory, Director of Business & Marketing and International Vendor Cooperation
Eva Jiránková obtained her MBA from Freie Universität Teufen under the patronage of the University of Economics, Prague.
She gained her first experience in lease financing at the Czech leasing company Master. She was one of the founding members of Société Générale Equipment Finance in the Czech Republic, starting out here in 1995 as Senior Account Manager for vehicle and food-processing technology financing.
Since 2002, Eva Jiránková has been responsible for financing high-tech, aircraft and railway technology, both in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. In 2021, her role expanded to include marketing and business strategy and the development of international vendor cooperation.
Zdeněk Kejval
Authorised Signatory, Chief Digital Officer
Zdeněk Kejval graduated from the Faculty of International Relations of the University of Economics, Prague.
Before joining Societe Generale Equipment Finance, he spent 11 years at CAC Leasing (UniCredit Leasing), where he held various positions ranging from account manager and department manager through to plant and equipment financing director and head of corporate financing. From 2003 to 2006, he sat on the supervisory board here.
In 2006, Zdeněk Kejval joined SGEF as Head of Business Development, where he worked several years on strategy and marketing and was appointed an authorised signatory. He is now responsible for the company's digital transformation, including the adoption of new technologies and the digitization of processes.
Libor Košíček
Authorised Signatory, Director of Sales Development and Regional Offices
Libor Košíček graduated from Technical University in Liberec and Internationales Hochschulinstitut in Germany. He also spent some time studying at the University of the West of England. Libor started his career at Škoda Mladá Boleslav. He first joined SGEF in 1999, and between 2007 and 2009 worked at the company as a Sales Director in Slovakia. He moved from Bratislava to Prague in 2010 to head PEMA, a leading rental provider of heavy-duty semi-trailer trucks in Europe.
In 2016, Libor Košíček returned to SGEF as Sales Director, where he took over the management of his sales team. Since 2024, he has been responsible for the management of all regional offices across the Czech Republic.
Pavel Němec
Pavel Němec graduated from Prague University of Economics and Business, where he earned a degree in finance. He began his career at ČSOB in 1999. Here, he worked for the risk management department, where he held various positions from analyst to risk manager and contributed to the development of training programmes for bank advisers and the risk management department. From 2007 to 2013, he worked at Komerční banka as a risk manager, managing the risks involved in key transactions. He served as Risk Management Director at SGEF from 2013 to 2019, before returning to Komerční banka, where he held the position of Supervision and Risk Prevention Manager from 2019 to 2021. In this role, he was responsible for coordinating and developing synergies in risk management across KB Group companies. Since 2021, he has been back at SGEF, reassuming his role as Risk Management Director.
Petr Němec
Petr Němec graduated in Finance from the University of Economics, Prague. He is an ACCA chartered certified accountant specialising in IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards), and was awarded his Executive MBA title by the University of Pittsburgh.
He took the first steps in his successful career with the consulting company PricewaterhouseCoopers, where, over the next six years, he worked his way up to the position of manager in the risk management and operational excellence section. From 2004 to 2006, he was the economics and finance director at ČEPS.
In 2007, Petr Němec accepted an offer to work for SGEF, where he initially took over the reins of internal operations management, before being promoted to CFO and authorised signatory.