Pavel Tykac

Coal, energy and real estate investor Pavel Tykac began as a computer distributor in the early 1990, plowing profits into a small regional bank.In 1992 he and four colleagues cofounded Motoinvest, which specialized in hostile takeovers during the Czech Republic's privatization program.His largest assets are two Czech coal mining firms and a power plant that he owns through newly created Lichtenstein-based Sev.en Energy Group.