Michael Kocáb

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Michael Kocáb is a Czech composer, singer and political activist.

Kocáb is leader of Pra?ský výbÄ?r, popular music band, which was suppressed by Czechoslovak communist regime in the 1980s. The band is now called Pra?ský výbÄ?r II as most of the band members were changed.

In the beginning of the 1990s, he was the leader of a Parliament commission which negotiated the repatriation of Soviet soldiers from then-Czechoslovakia.

In April 1990 Kocáb founded together with OldÅ?ich Lichtenberg and Miloslav Zapletal a company Art Production K, where he served as chairman of the board. In May 1991 he became board member of newly privatized building company Montované stavby Praha. In January 1992 MSP founded Investment privatization fund TREND and Kocáb became chairman of its board. Another board Member was his brother-in-law Martin Kratochvíl. In January 1993 companies Art Production K, Bonton, MSP and Bankovní d?m SKALA founded a limited liability investment company IC TREND to manage portfolio of IPF TREND for a fee. In February 1995 the managers of IPF TREND founded a closely owned corporation IC TREND for the same purpose.