Petr Borkovec

Borkovec studied at the Faculty of Business and Economics of Mendel University in Brno and subsequently taught there. His official biography dates his financial career to 2000, covering financial and capital markets, securities and international finance while he developed an independent financial-advisory practice.⁠[1][2]

Borkovec met Radim Lukeš while working at OVB Allfinanz. In 2007, they and other partners founded Partners Financial Services, developing a personal-financial-advice business. Borkovec remained involved in management and the subsequent expansion into additional financial services.⁠[1][3]

His official biography states that Borkovec has led the Partners financial group since 2012. Its development extended from advisory and distribution networks into investment management, insurance and pension products, combining customer-facing channels with financial-product businesses.⁠[2]

The Partners chronology dates the creation of life insurer Simplea and property fund Trigea to 2019, followed by pension company Rentea in 2021. These businesses formed part of the financial-product expansion during Borkovec’s leadership. Partners HoldCo was established in 2021 as the group holding platform.⁠[4]

Partners Banka, a project Borkovec helped develop, formally launched in March 2024, combining a mobile app with the adviser network. In an interview at launch, he described it as his largest project to date and set a goal of one million customers by 2030. That figure was a target rather than an achieved customer count.⁠[5]

The changes announced on June 10, 2024 made Borkovec vice-chair and co-CEO of Partners Banka, focusing on products, distribution and marketing while continuing to lead the group. More of the adviser network’s day-to-day management passed to Petr Jan Křen.⁠[6]

Effective February 1, 2026, Borkovec succeeded the departing Marek Ditz as CEO of Partners Banka. The bank announced the transition on January 22 as part of its next development stage. The appointment differed from his earlier co-CEO arrangement alongside Ditz.⁠[7]

In the August 5 bitcoin-service announcement, Borkovec argued that public interest contrasted with an unnecessarily complicated buying process, and advocated integrating it into the banking app. The service launched on August 10 with AnycoinAnycoinAnycoin is a Czech crypto-asset trading and custody service operated by MP Developers s.r.o. Marek Kyrsch and Martin Čech started the project in late 2018. It offers fiat and crypto-asset exchange to individuals and businesses and obtained Czech National Bank authorisation under MiCA in 2026. That August, it became the execution and custody provider for Partners Banka’s in-app bitcoin service.Open the full entry handling trading and custody. He also described bitcoin as a portfolio complement requiring attention to risk.⁠[8]

Outside finance, institutional biographies describe Borkovec’s involvement with NextPage Media and food businesses. His professional profile mentions a past investment in online grocer Rohlík and involvement in building Sklizeno. These references establish investment history rather than confirming that every holding remains current.⁠[1][3]

An official biography is available on Partners Banka’s leadership page: https://www.partnersbanka.cz/o-nas (opens in a new window). LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry: https://www.linkedin.com/in/petrborkovec/ (opens in a new window). This entry concerns the financial entrepreneur, distinct from the Czech poet of the same name.⁠[2][3]