“Established for the future
in the right moment of now”
That’s how DABRICON started,
That’ s how it progresses till today.
As DABRICON founder Dan Bican stepped down as a partner of a Big4 consultancy by the end of 2017, he wanted to reconsider his business and private lifes for the future. After many difficult brainstorms, he decided to start his own business. Not far from the 20-years proven consultancy, but boutique-type yet wide-ranging to advise any client in the field Dan loved and was good at – risk management.
His vision was to offer his clients an exceptional support with a small and flexible team of seasoned experts acting as multifunctional group to resolve any risk issue that bothers their clients, concerning in particular operational risks, compliance, forensics, disputes and similar challenges.
“Business reality
with risks under control”
Our motto sets the scene for DABRICON’s assistance to clients.
The motto links to our pursuit of excellence in any given business situation requiring fast, flexible and professionally unparalleled help and advice. Our clients are served with the utmost confidentiality and discretion that are a prerequisite of trustworthy relationship of the risk advisor and his client. With no exceptions.
1. EXPERTISE
We are experts with a long and deep expertise, certified in various areas such as forensic investigations (CFE), anti-money laundering (CAMS), internal audit (CIA), and financial audit (FCCA). Our team has gathered unparalleled experience from hundreds of projects of risk management, fraud and bribery investigations, compliance management implementations, and process controls.
2. WE KNOW YOUR INDUSTRY
Among our clients are global and multinational corporations of all kinds, sizes, and industries, from financial services to FMCG and pharma to automotive to real-estate, as well as small and medium-sized enterprises, and family businesses. Our team is prepared to understand your business fast and without significant lead-in time.
3. THE TEAM TO MEET YOUR SPECIFIC NEEDS
For each project, Dan Bican is supported by the right mix of specialists in risk management, accounting, finance, IT, and law, to deliver the best possible service tailored for each client.
4. WE SOLVE YOUR PROBLEMS CONFIDENTIALLY AND DISCRETELY
Absolute discretion, confidentiality, and security of your information, combined with a personal approach with no unnecessary middlemen form crucial factors of successful mitigation of risks in your firm and, when possible, use it to your benefit.
5. WE ARE FAST AND FLEXIBLE
It doesn't take us weeks to meet you, understand your needs and conclude a contract! We are flexible in initial admin and do not slow down the process of starting the project ASAP.
Our team
Tailor-made team of professionals at your disposal
From a one-man show to dozen of experts, Dan has built the DABRICON team using the potential of practitioners who have already had major experience in the areas needed to serve the clients at the highest level
– risk management, forensics, accounting, auditing, ICT, cybersecurity, law, business intelligence, disputes, and others.
The vast experience and hands-on approach gathered together, enabled tackling of any clients’ problems and requirements throughout DABRICON’ s existence and has been the best asset for its future prospect.
Due care, confidentiality, and discretion are the most important values that we share with our clients.
Due to the sensitive nature of our work, which in some cases requires concealing our identity and the real purpose of our involvement, we do not provide the names of our team members here. We are, however, very happy to send you detailed CVs of our experts upon direct request or at any stage before the commencement of our cooperation.
Get to know our team:
Over the past 24 years, Dan and his teams have gathered vast experience in risk management, compliance and forensics working for the world’s biggest audit and consulting companies. In various positions up to a partner, he led and managed everything from big international to local projects of risk assessments in business transactions (acquisitions, mergers, JVs), special reviews within insolvencies and restructurings, compliance reviews and system setups, forensic investigations and others.
His multinational, medium-sized, and local clients were from a range of industries, in particular financial services, automotive, FMCG, pharma, and manufacturing, just to name a few. His career path led him to personally work for clients with his teams in Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, and the UK.
Dan’s current team consists of contracted auditors, forensic experts, lawyers, IT specialists, finance advisors, and detectives that are ad hoc forming specialized teams ensuring the best possible solution for clients’ needs in the best quality and within a reasonable time and economy frame. Their brief CVs can be found below.
Dan holds global auditing, internal audit, forensic and anti-money laundering qualifications (FCCA, CIA, CFE, CAMS). Additionally, Dan is a registered arbitrator with the Czech Arbitration Court at the Chamber of Commerce & the Agrarian Chamber.
He is also an internationally recognized conference and seminar speaker. Previous talks have been focused on compliance, forensics, risk, and cybercrime events.
Dan speaks Czech, English, German and Slovak.
Alex focuses mainly on senior consulting for DABRICON clients in the areas of preventing and combating corruption and economic crime, financial fraud, embezzlement, breaches of ethical rules, and corporate governance, especially in multinational companies, where he has personally gained over 25 years of extensive experience up to the most senior positions. Specifically, he spent several years as the Head of Compliance and Security at a major European bank.
Prior to joining DABRICON, Alex pursued his career in working for clients primarily in the region of Central and Southeastern Europe. His clients included international and local companies from a wide range of industries, such as pharmaceuticals, financial sector, automotive industry, or FMCG. Alex is a leading expert in designing, implementing, and reviewing of compliance management systems, which include risk compliance analysis, employee training, employee and third-party screening, KYC principles, building and operating ethical lines, and internal investigations.
He holds the FCCA qualification and also completed several international educational courses in, e.g., forensic accounting and management, in the Czech Republic, USA and South Africa. He is also fluent in Slovak, Hungarian and English.
Andrea is a member of DABRICON’s team in forensic and special reviews, risk assessments, risk management systems implementations, and compliance projects.
She has over six years of experience in forensics, auditing, and compliance in the leading international consulting companies as a consultant, senior advisor, and project manager. She has participated in forensic investigations, process reviews, disputes support, compliance reviews, due diligence, financial and internal audits, risk management, and internal controls evaluations. She led projects for clients in various industries, such as pharma, e-commerce, oil & gas, construction and development, financial services, retail, as well as for governmental institutions and NGOs. Currently, her work also focuses on projects related to cost optimization, process analysis, and improvement.
She holds a master’s degree in management and corporate governance from the London School of Economics, and has also completed study programs in the Czech Republic, France, and the US. She holds an ACCA qualification in accounting.
Marek cooperates with DABRICON on forensic investigations and audits, special reviews, and compliance projects.
Over the last 16 years, he has worked in auditing, forensics, accounting, and compliance in big multinational and consulting firms. He has experience with leading projects for companies from various industries, such as pharmaceuticals, public sector, industrial services, automotive, energetics, and finance services, in the Czech Republic and abroad.
Marek has also wide experience in fraud investigation and compliance reviews in accordance with US and UK anticorruption regulations (e.g., FCPA, UK Bribery Act). He also has experience with implementing compliance management system and its certification with regard to the U.S. Department of Justice monitorship and Deferred Prosecution Agreement due to a former FCPA violation.
Marek graduated from the University of Economics in Prague and is a Certified Fraud Examiner (ACFE).
At DABRICON Jakub specializes in designing effective internal controls and compliance systems, primarily for financial institutions.
At the beginning of his career he gathered practical experience at prestigious audit & consultancy firms. He participated in many audit and consulting assignments including due diligence investigations for large local and multinational companies. Later he was a manager in charge of consulting assignments.
Further he pursued his career in one of the biggest financial groups in Central Europe where he held managerial positions within Internal audit and Compliance. He managed transformation of both functions aiming at higher process effectiveness and customer satisfaction. He implemented with his team a sophisticated automatic system for the detection of suspicious transactions and he promoted awareness and implementation of compliance policies into bank processes.
He obtained ACCA, CFE and FRM certifications.
Aranka cooperates with DABRICON on special reviews and forensic audits of small and medium enterprises.
For over 20 years, she has provided her accounting and tax consulting services on a wide range of engagements in various industries. Starting at one of Big4 advisory companies, she had worked on acquisitions, due diligences and general tax compliance advisory. She opened her own practice after 4 years there and started to also work locally for a variety of international developers and small businesses. Occasionally, she also provides consulting pro bono services to individuals in bankruptcy.
Aranka´s current clients are typically from the real-estate, property development and management areas including also property co-ops and property owners’ associations. She also advises Czech and foreign individuals on tax structuring in respect of their business as well as non-profit activities.
Among other activities, she teaches Czech and international taxation at a private university.
As an IT advisor, Luboš is a member of DABRICON's teams on data analytics, forensic technology and e-Discovery, technology risk advisory, and IT consulting.
His career started in leading consulting companies as a forensic data analyst. He specialized in a wide range of projects such as data analyses for internal audit purposes throughout various business processes (ordering, purchasing, manufacturing, accounting, travel expenses, etc.), forensic analyses on journal entries, conflicts of interest, and other customized analyses requiring specific approach. Moreover, he gained a significant amount experience in forensic collection and analyses of electronic data such as analyses of deleted data, operating systems, data of external carriers’ connections to mainly identify potential leakages of sensitive company data.
Later, he led a team of forensic technology consultants and supervised projects with a wide range of responsibilities everything from budgeting, to the used methodologies and the technological part of the projects, down to quality review of outcomes. He also worked as a project manager taking care of the development of customized solutions for various clients. Among other areas, he also acts as a product manager focusing on development of enterprise applications for a specific industry.
Luboš has provided his experience to a wide range of major Czech as well as international clients in retail, banking, public, pharmaceutical, automotive or energy industries.
Furthermore, he is experienced in different ERP systems, and he is a Nuix Certified eDiscovery expert.
Jiří is DABRICON’s expert for IT risks management, advisory and compliance systems in IT environment of our clients.
His career path started at the international technology companies IBM and ICL, where he led implementation projects within the application and technical infrastructures. In the following 15 years he worked in an international auditing and advisory firm up to senior manager level, where he led local and international teams in the Czech Republic and abroad. Jiří worked in the management of a financial institution for five more years, leading the IT and IT security departments, later also internal audit.
Apart from his specialisation in IT audit, IT risks management, and IT compliance, Jiří expanded his expertise to other areas such as evaluation and implementation of IT security management, forensic audits, compliance assessments (ISO/IEC 27000, ISO/IEC 20000), business continuity management, data quality management, and project management.
He has used this knowledge and experience to serve clients from various industries including FSI, telco, down to public sector.
Jiří holds a number of international certifications within IT audit, IT security, internal audit, and project management.
Vladimír supports DABRICON on due diligence, special review, and forensic assignments for companies of all kinds and sizes.
He is a financial management and reporting professional with more than 20 years of experience, including auditing and financial reporting in accordance with US GAAP and IFRS and local auditing standards. He has also gathered vast experience in setting up and auditing internal controls’ systems.
A significant part of his career was developed within the Big4 companies, where he audited major international and local companies, supplemented by due diligence engagements on transactions of significant enterprises.
On the executive side, he was mainly responsible, among other things, for setting up and managing systems of internal controls in the environment of a multinational firm. As a project leader he also has experience with restructuring/system implementation projects leading teams of lawyers, tax advisors, and other external consultants.
Among other activities, he currently advises a number of companies in various sectors on financial management.
Dominika participates in DABRICON on forensic investigations, compliance audits, AML and anti-corruption reviews, in particular from the legal perspective.
Before joining DABRICON, she used to work as a senior associate in a forensic department of a Big4 firm. In addition, she spent eight years in various large law firms in Germany, the UK and Cayman Islands with specialization in civil litigation, lawsuits, insolvency, bribery and business intelligence.
Dominika graduated from the University of Buckingham and City Law School of London gaining the LLB and LPC qualifications. She is also a Certified Fraud Examiner (ACFE).
Certifications
To support the credibility of the DABRICON group of experts, we hold professional certifications and validations including ACCA, CAMS, CFE, CIA, CISA and FRM to name just a few.
Continuous learning, gaining new knowledge and acquiring current methods are a prerequisite of any and all of the DABRICON members’ highest qualification to satisfy the requirements even in the most difficult business situations. They also serve the purpose of providing certain clients with an officially valued proof of quality, should these be required in particular situations, such as formal tenders.