As of December 1, 2011, Jiří Hosnedl will be appointed a new general manager of Fortuna Lottery. Prior to that, he has been working as Operations & IT Director of Fortuna and he also gained long term experience with the lottery business at Sazka. Mr. Hosnedl is replacing Martin Illner who is leaving the position of general manager from private reasons.

„Under the management of Martin Illner, Fortuna Lottery has been established in the Czech numerical lottery market, managed to build strong brand awareness and introduced to the market two numerical games. My priority will be bringing the distribution network of terminals to 3,000 sales points, enhancing dynamic growth of Loto and Golden 11 and introducing new games and scratch tickets to the market. I am taking over from Martin a quality and highly efficient team of people which a key for a further development.“ Said Jiří Hosnedl, new general manager of Fortuna Lottery.

Jiří Hosnedl (48) has a degree from the College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering and from the Open University. He started his professional career at ČKD Kompresory. From 1991 until May 2011 he worked at Sazka at different positions, at the end as Director of Operational and Technical Division. Since June this year he worked at Fortuna as Director of Operations & IT.