Success Stories
Global HR Services Advisor for Microsoft
“Thanks to UNYP, I was able to build my corporate identity, stay motivated and do the best job I can do,” says Adam Grof, who now works as a Global HR Services Advisor for Microsoft in the Czech Republic.
Six years before beginning at Microsoft, Adam was a freshman at University of New York in Prague. He had the aspiration to work in an international corporation, but he didn’t want the...
Investment Manager
“Everyday you’re exposed to so much information and data, you need to know how to process it quickly to make the right decisions. That’s something I learned at UNYP,” Jiří Sýkora says.
As an investment manager at PPF, the Czech Republic’s largest private equity firm, Jiří spends much of his time analyzing and evaluating multiple real estate investments. PPF has an extensive portfolio in...
CEO and founder, Go Fit
“If UNYP hadn’t been there, I don’t know if I’d have done it,” Albert Ballardini says. “All the ideas came to me when doing the MBA.”
In 2009, Albert was working as a paralegal at a London law practice called Anthony Seddon Solicitors LLP. Following the global financial crisis, he found himself working in-house with several major companies. “When you’re exposed to so many entrepreneurs, you...
Partner at Roklen Holding and CEO at Fundlift
“Studies at UNYP taught me how to see the big picture and structure my thinking,” says Radek Musil, CEO of Fundlift. “Thanks to the various topics covered in the Business Administration major at UNYP, I gained knowledge of different business fields that led me to where I am today.”
After graduating from University of New York in Prague as valedictorian, Radek was accepted into a Master’s...
Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Keastone
Jeff Medeiros, and his business partner Keith Adams believe that once you filter out the unnecessary noise of managing what is currently a digital tsunami–multiple emails, calendars, contacts, to-do’s, document/content storage systems–and give people a tool to manage their basic digital lives from a single all-in-one place, anything is possible.
Jeff and Keith founded and run a software...