Petr Smutny is one of the cofounders of the Masaryk University Project Management Centre of Excellence and has over 15 years’ experience as teacher and trainer. Petr contributes and leads courses focused on management, leadership skill development and project management. He currently holds position of vice-dean for international relations at Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University.

Petr started his career as teacher and trainer in 2001. He is co-author of several business gaming simulation applications focused on entrepreneurial, managerial and leadership skills development. He has used these to deliver courses in academic and professional programmes at several leading universities in the Czech Republic (Masarykova Univerzita ,VŠE Praha). His background includes 10 years long experience as trainer in MBA program (BIBS Brno) as well as a number of in-house corporate training assignments (incl. Sika Brno, SSŽ Praha ).

Tuck MacRae is one of the cofounders of the Masaryk University Project Management Centre of Excellence and has over 30 years of experience in project and programme management. Tuck oversees the courses delivered at the centre in conjunction with his duties as an assistant professor within the faculty of Economics and Administration.

Tuck started his career in 1981 as a process engineer in the telecommunication industry. After several years designing production systems he moved from telecommunications into military and space technologies assuming roles ranging from project manager up to senior vice-president operations. Tuck’s extensive background in defence and aerospace industry project management allows him to deliver a blend of project management theory and real world application. Working with organisations such as Boeing, Grumman, Sikorsky, Marconi, NASA, Canadian Astronautics, and the Canadian Government, Tuck has had the opportunity to experience first-hand how to and how NOT to manage small, medium and large sized projects. Tuck has also served as a Project Board advisor and consultant to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation helping set the ground work for initiatives such as NATO channel TV, the NATO Executive Development Programme, the NATO Ethics Policy and the NATO Code of Conduct. From Directing a Project all the way down to creating a simple Gantt chart, Tuck delivers a contextualized blend of learning materials that allows participants to quickly grasp the concepts and to apply them in the real world.