VITA KLÁRA BRACHTLOVÁ
KLÁRA BRACHTLOVÁ
- Personal Data
- Year of birth
- 1971
- Nationality
- Czech
- Residence
- Prague
PROFESSIONAL CAREER
since 2024
Interim Deputy CEO & Chief External Affairs Officer at CME – Central European Media Enterprise, Prague / Czech Republic
since 2023
Chief External Affairs Officer at CME – Central European Media Enterprise, Prague / Czech Republic
since 2023
President at Association of Commercial Broadcasters (AKTV), Prague / Czech Republic
2014 – 2023
Executive Director at TV Nova, Prague / Czech Republic
2019 – 2022
co-CEO at TV Nova, Prague / Czech Republic
2007 – 2019
Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Deputy CFO, other finance roles at TV Nova, Prague / Czech Republic
2004 – 2007 / 1994 – 1999
Manager Audit Department, Technical Committee Member at PricewaterhouseCoopers Audit, s.r.o., Prague / Czech Republic
Klára Brachtlová earned her master’s degree from the PragueUniversity of Economics and Business, and she currently serves as the Interim Deputy CEO of CME, responsible for Slovakia, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Croatia, while concurrently maintaining her responsibilities over CME’s external affairs regarding the Czech Republic and with the EU authorities as Chief External Affairs. She heads CME’s regulatory and public affairs strategy as well as participating in implementing the group’s ESG initiatives and she actively oversees key media and policy developments within the Czech Association of Commercial Broadcasters, where she was also serving as the president until April 2025.
Ms. Brachtlová has over 15 years of C-level executive management experience at TV Nova across television broadcast operations and finance, having previously served both as co-CEO and CFO in addition to her current role as executive board member of TV Nova, the most successful private TV station in the Czech Republic. Ms. Brachtlová successfully oversaw TV Nova’s digital transformation agenda, securing a leading position on the Czech and Slovak markets. Before entering media, Ms. Brachtlová was a manager in the audit department at PwC for several years, and is a certified Statutory Auditor, Tax Advisor, and has ACCA qualification.