LUCIE URVÁLKOVÁ
CFO and Vice-Chairwoman of the Board of Directors for UNIQA Insurance Company
She aligned her career for many years with auditing and counselling. She worked in “big four” consulting companies and specialized in insurance. She worked her way up to Financial Advisor for Central and Eastern Europe to help Czech and foreign corporate clients. For the past eleven years she has been working for Czech UNIQA Insurance Company and since 2014 also for Slovak UNIQA Insurance Company. She works as Vice-Chairwoman of the Board of Directors and Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
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During her tenure, the two companies she worked for achieved the highest historical gains. She works with a team of about 150 people. In recent years she has been repeatedly placed among the most important managers (TOP Women of the Czech Republic), and this year even among the 111 most influential women of the Czech Republic according to Forbes magazine. She is engaged in the Club of Managers and the Club of CFOs. She has worked for many years as a mentor for junior managers. She is the mother of a six year old son.
“Sometimes I get unpleasantly surprised by the fact that women compete against each other in the corporate world. In my point of view, we should stick together, support each other and pursue having more women in management positions. I welcome every opportunity where I can gain positive motivation and inspiration from similarly tuned active women! And the “For All the Women” festival is definitely such a venue. I know it from my own experience. Come and share your personal stories and get the energy you need!”
The festival “For All the Women” is for women who are not just men’s accessories. Their main characteristic isn’t “wife of someone significant”. They are the significant personalities themselves, who move the world, and at the same time stay women: empathetic, sensitive and beautiful beings, without whom world would languish. Jan Werich once said: “Women often see more than five men with binoculars”. And that hasn’t changed, on the contrary! So join us and let’s look around together to see where we are needed and where we want to be seen and heard!