_Richard Curran and David Sajner appointed to the Management Board of Knight Frank, Czech Republic

The commercial real estate company, Knight Frank will be increasing the size of its management board. The current top management, Zdenka Klapalová and Přemysl Chaloupka will be joined by two new members. Richard Curran, who held the position of Managing Director at CBRE until last year, and David Sajner who has held the position of Sales Director at Knight Frank up to now.
April 13, 2021

Richard Curran MRICS (50) joins Knight Frank as a Managing Director with responsibility for managing the company's operations and growing the business. A graduate of the National College of Ireland, Richard began his career at Cushman & Wakefield (formerly Healy & Baker) before joining CBRE in 2004 as Head of Agency. From 2008 until March 2020 he held the position of Managing Director at CBRE, Czech Republic.

“I am excited to be joining Knight Frank, the longest established international real estate consultancy in the Czech Republic. We have a great reputation, brand and client base which we will build on, as we focus on growing our business in the post Covid world”, said Richard Curran.

"We are happy to have Richard on the board. His long-term management experience within a company operating on the Czech real estate market will be definitely very useful for the further development of our firm", said Přemysl Chaloupka, Director at Knight Frank.

Andrew Sim, Managing Director, Europe, at Knight Frank, said: “I am thrilled to welcome Richard to Knight Frank as Managing Director in the Czech Republic and to announce that David, who has been with the firm for over 15 years will be joining the managing board. Both Richard and David bring with them huge amounts of experience and their appointments are testament to the firm’s committed expansion of the breadth and depth of our offer across Europe.”

Ing. David Sajner, MSc (40) graduated from the CVUT in Prague and then obtained degree of MSc Real Estate Investment and Management at Sheffield Hallam University & Nottingham Trent University in Great Britain. With more than 15 years at Knight Frank, he gained extensive experience with the sale and acquisition of commercial properties such as office buildings, shopping centres, logistics and hotels, all around the Czech Republic. He specializes in the sale of properties requiring active asset management, searching for development and investment opportunities for local investors and Czech premium clients. David also deals with the optimization of real estate portfolios, real estate valuation and feasibility studies.

In his new role, he will continue to focus on commercial real estate investing, especially in the SMI (Small and Medium Investment) segment. "Knight Frank has a wide investment scope and, is one of the few consulting companies on the Czech market dealing with opportunities in the regions and services related to distressed assets. We have a database of investors, segmented according to their individual investment focus and the preferred size of transactions and thanks to that we are able to offer each investor a suitable investment opportunity", said David Sajner to his further plans.

“David fully deserves his position on the management board, and we are happy that his hard work over a long period of time for Knight Frank is being rewarded. We are always happy to promote our own people into senior positions”, said Zdenka Klapalová, Director at Knight Frank.