Kateřina Zychová is Verdi Capital‘s founder and CEO. Prior to founding Verdi, she worked at several investment houses in New York’s Wall Street and in the City of London, including JP Morgan, Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs. During her career in finance, she focused on capital markets transactions for both corporate clients and governments of developing countries. She specialized in structured finance and acquisition financing for private equity groups. Kateřina is a member of 100 Women in Hedge Funds. She is a Supervisory Board Member of the foundation “Dejme Dětem Šanci” (“Lets give Children a chance”), she is a referee at the OCP, a competition promoting women entrepreneurs in the Czech Republic. She is also an avid supporter of the reSITE organization. Kateřina holds an MBA from Rochester Institute of Technology, USA and a BA in Economics from Silesian University, Czech Republic.