Daniel KÅ™etÃnský
Daniel KÅ™etÃnský is a Czech billionaire businessman and lawyer, who is the chief executive officer and 94% owner of Energetický a průmyslový holding, the largest energy group in Central Europe and co-owner and president of football club AC Sparta Prague.Early life
His father is MojmÃr KÅ™etÃnský, informatics professor at Masaryk University, and his mother, Michaela Židlická, is a lawyer and judge of the Constitutional Court.
He graduated from the faculty of law of Masaryk University and started to work as legal trainee in a law firm.Career
In 1999, he joined J&T as lawyer and became a partner in 2003. Since 2004 he is chairman of football club AC Sparta Prague and he is believed to be its 40% shareholder.
When in 2009 J&T founded Energetický a průmyslový holding, he became its chairman and 20% shareholder. He ceased to be a partner of J&T. In 2011, he became chairman and 60% shareholder of EP Industries, that was divested from EPH. In 2016, he took 94% ownership of EPH through a series of transactions including EPH's sale of a 30% stake in subsidiary EPIF where the proceeds were used to buy out other shareholders.
From 2014, he is one of the owners of Czech media house Czech News Center, among others publisher of tabloid Blesk, the most read newspaper in the Czech Republic.
In October 2018, staff at Le Monde learned that KÅ™etÃnský had purchased 49% of Matthieu Pigasse's stake in the company. Le Monde's Independency Group, a minority shareholder that aims to protect the paper's editorial independence, had not been informed of the sale, and asked Pigasse and KÅ™etÃnský to sign an "approval agreement" that would give the Independency Group the right to approve or reject any controlling shareholder., they had not done so.
On 12 March 2020, Jérôme Lefilliâtre, a French journalist, published Mister K, Petites et grandes affaires de Daniel Kretinsky, an investigative book about the Czech billionaire.Personal life
He is dating Anna Kellnerová, daughter of his business associate Petr Kellner who is the richest man in the country.
On 30 March 2020, he announced that he had tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019, so far the highest profile person to be infected during the 2020 coronavirus epidemic in the Czech Republic.
