Renata Proková

Vice President, British Chamber of Commerce in Slovakia
Director General, AJS Management UK

Renata Proková is Director General and one of the founders of AJS Management Slovakia, a daughter company of a British consultancy and management company AJS Management UK. Prior to the establishment of AJS Management in August 1994, Renata was a local Phare expert at the National Phare coordination Unit at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Slovakia. For 2 years, she was responsible for preparing tenders and contracts under the Phare programme. Between 1980 and 1995, Renata was a translator/interpreter of educational documents for UNESCO before becoming editor and responsible for individual issues of the Czechoslovak Scientific and Technical Society magazine. Renata has also worked for the Slovak Technical University as Press Secretary.

Renata is responsible for the day to day management of AJS Management Slovakia. She is also responsible for the organisation of the Translation/interpretation and Event Services Departments. Her strengths lie in the identification, development and implementation of EU funded projects including Structural Funds.

Renata is one of the Vice-Presidents and founders of the British Chamber of Commerce in Slovakia. She has been supporting the Chamber as a Board Member for more than 8 years as well as assisting in the development of Chamber events, for example Business 2 Business Breakfasts which was introduced this year, and was the power engine for the development of the BCC journal, BRIDGES.

Renata is used to working in international teams, is communicative and speaks four foreign languages – English, German, Russian and Czech.

She is also a member the Slovak Association of Translators and Interpreters and the Slovak Union of Journalists.