In this lecture, Jan Švejda will describe his upbringing and how his studies and internships led him to choose finance, explain how he earned admission to Bocconi University and what helped him succeed there, outline his first full-time roles at BHM and then at Wood in Prague, introduce Wood’s investment banking services, and walk through the Doosan Škoda Power IPO, a landmark €100.5 million transaction, as a real-world example of equity capital markets advisory,
