The team behind Byzzard, by Byzkids

Before Byzzard

I founded Byzkids and have spent that time studying how digital banking, telco, and retail apps evolve across CEE and worldwide. Before Byzzard, I led innovation consulting engagements for the region's largest banks and telcos, building the benchmarking discipline that eventually became Byzzard's editorial backbone.

Notable work

• Founder and product lead of Byzzard, the B2B innovation intelligence platform used across CEE by banking, telco, retail, and entertainment teams. The platform holds a curated library of 4,000+ scored innovations, evaluated against Byzkids' proprietary ASVP framework.
• Principal author of Byzzard's blueprint library, including Mobile Account Opening in Banking Apps, digital mortgage journeys, telco hardware sale, and AI-guided complex sales. These blueprints are used by CEE product and design teams as reference best practice.
• Grew Byzkids into a leading CEE innovation consultancy over 20+ years, delivering benchmarking studies, strategic playbooks, and mystery-shopping programs to enterprise clients in banking, telco, retail, and streaming.

Before Byzzard

I joined Pricewise in 2013, right after my seminar paper Big Bank Change won the best paper award that Pricewise ran with VŠE Prague. There I learned market analysis, competitor benchmarking, product portfolio repricing, and customer research design. Since 2015 I've been at Byzkids, helping banks, telcos, and retailers in Czechia, Slovakia, and Croatia grow revenue and customer satisfaction through better digital experiences.

Notable work

• Designed the evaluation criteria behind Byzzard AI Radar, the framework Byzzard uses to assess AI innovations in banking and beyond.
• Redefined the value proposition of a leading CEE payment gateway provider for both end customers and merchants. The work combined competitor benchmarking across key payment scenarios (BNPL, subscriptions, payment links) with merchant interviews, and fed into a prioritized feature roadmap.
• Led a Byzzard pilot with a major Czech bank on a strategic retail banking topic, from intro workshop to innovation research and recommendations.

Before Byzzard

Before fully committing to Byzzard, I spent 7 years in consulting projects focused on mobile app performance increase across banks and telcos in CEE and DACH region.

Notable work

• Author of Byzzard's first public blueprint: Mobile Account Opening in Banking Apps.
• Complete mobile app redesign project for major telco company in Czech Republic (feature prioritization, mockup and user testing), implementing scenarios for increasing daily app usage (doubled within one year) and merging the world of telco and entertainment into one app.
• Execution of company expansion to Austria. Based on GAP analysis we provided prioritized development plans for key Austrian banks (banking groups) that were distributed and executed on a group level across CEE and DACH markets.