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VLADIMIR J. ROTT
MAS ETH MTEC / MA ETH
EUR ING

  


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  • 1950 born in Prague, Czechoslovakia
     
  • 1963 first visit to my grandparents in Switzerland (the Iron Curtain opened a bit... fully breathing in the fresh air of freedom, for the first time in my life!)
     
  • 1968/72 studying and working in Prague (getting into some troubles, minor at first, for being much too a free citizen)
     
  • 1972 escaping «for USA», via Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, Austria (by foot in a beatifull moonlight night over the Arlberg) «got stuck» in Switzerland (do not complain, on the contrary!)
     
  • 1972/74 working in Thun (architecture, engineering - enjoying the people, country and atmosphere) and half a year in London (Baker Street)
     
  • 1994/98 studying and working in Zurich,
    graduated 1998 (ETH)
     
  • 1998/86 working in Zurich and surroundings (architecture, engineering),
    (post)graduated 1986 (BWI, today MTEC, of ETH)
     
  • 1986/90 working in Zurich (engineering, management consulting)
     
  • 1989/90 setting up V J Rott in Zurich, as well as some partnership networks
     
  • 1989/90 the Soviet empire collapsed
     
  • 1990/91 first visit to my first home country, Czechoslovakia (after two decades, still a very «gray» country back then)
     
  • 1991/93 succesfully privatized the leftovers of my forebears' company (only to get them robbed!) up to 1999 fighting to get three crisp-clear cases through the Czech courts (forget it over there!)
     
  • 1991/99 working in Prague and Zurich, partnerships and further own businesses (business development, media, real estate)
     
  • 1999/2000 closing the Czech businesses
     
  • 2000/today fully based in Zurich, keeps on supporting the development of Czechia - economy, democracy, society

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