Empowering Europe’s Defense Capabilities for the 21st Century
Skyline is a strategic integrator of dual use procurement and supply chain resilience, uniquely positioned to accelerate Europe’s rearmament through agility, innovation, and targeted collaboration to ensure economic security. As geopolitical tensions drive Europe’s urgent need for rapid modernization, Skyline serves as a vital catalyst—streamlining procurement, strengthening indigenous production, and enhancing interoperability across defense partnerships.
With proven operational expertise from addressing critical wartime procurement shortages in Ukraine, Skyline has developed a tested capability to source and deliver essential components and systems rapidly, even under acute logistical and diplomatic constraints. This proven agility, rooted in operational realities rather than theoretical constructs, positions Skyline as an indispensable partner in realizing Europe’s ambitious defense revitalization goals.
Leveraging Wartime Innovation from Ukrainian Defense Enterprises
Skyline collaborates extensively with pioneering Ukrainian defense companies that have consistently innovated despite severe budgetary limitations and challenging operational environments. These partnerships have yielded cutting-edge solutions characterized by modularity, cost-efficiency, rapid prototyping, and battlefield-proven resilience. By translating this frontline ingenuity into scalable production models, Skyline offers a direct pathway for U.S. and European industries to benefit from proven innovations, thereby significantly boosting the effectiveness and efficiency of defense manufacturing on both sides of the Atlantic.
Integrating End-User Insights and Industry Innovation
Understanding that the most effective weapons systems arise from comprehensive collaboration between operational end-users and leading industrial innovators, Skyline prioritizes continuous engagement with military personnel, strategic planners, and defense platform manufacturers. Our approach emphasizes deep listening, collaborative innovation, and proactive integration of frontline requirements into procurement processes. By doing so, we ensure weapons systems and munitions not only meet rigorous standards of combat readiness and interoperability but actively drive future-oriented cost effective capabilities development.
Building a Resilient, Transatlantic Defense Supply Chain
Skyline proactively strengthens the resilience and diversification of defense supply chains, crucially addressing vulnerabilities exposed by geopolitical shifts and global disruptions. Our unique capacity to access non-traditional global suppliers—including trusted U.S. and allied Asian suppliers—provides European defense initiatives with critical stockpiles and dual-use technologies otherwise constrained by traditional channels.
Our leadership team, comprised of former military commanders, intelligence officers, and procurement specialists, ensures that all sourced equipment and systems are fully combat-ready, compliant, and aligned with NATO standards, supporting seamless transatlantic interoperability. Skyline’s approach significantly reduces strategic risks associated with dependence on limited sources, thereby reinforcing both European and American industrial security.
We deliver strategic value to our customers:
- Rapid Deployment Capabilities: Skyline bypasses bureaucratic inertia through its agile procurement model, enabling expedited deliveries that meet urgent operational requirements.
- Cost-Efficient Procurement: Streamlined operations and innovative sourcing strategies maximize resource utilization, ensuring taxpayer value and optimal return on investment for both European and U.S. stakeholders.
- Proven Operational Excellence: Leveraging leadership with direct combat and intelligence experience, Skyline ensures procurement decisions and product selections are realistic, practical, and battle-tested.
- Enhanced Transatlantic and Allied Cooperation: Skyline facilitates deeper collaboration between U.S., Asian and European suppliers, promoting shared innovation, regulatory harmonization, and interoperability, thereby strengthening NATO’s strategic capabilities.
- Robust Supply Chain Resilience: Skyline’s extensive network, innovative procurement strategies, and partnerships with agile SMEs effectively mitigate critical vulnerabilities within NATO and partner defense industries.
Positioning for the Future: A Strategic Partner for Defense Excellence
As Europe embarks on its largest rearmament and modernization effort in decades, Skyline emerges as a pivotal actor uniquely suited to operationalize this vision effectively and efficiently. Our experience gained through addressing urgent procurement crises in Ukraine, combined with our commitment to close collaboration with European, Asian and American defense ecosystems, positions us as a strategic partner that stakeholders can rely upon.
Skyline stands ready to deepen its engagements, confident that our expertise, innovation-driven culture, operational efficiency, and commitment to frontline realities will significantly advance mutual defense priorities, reinforce collective security, and strengthen NATO members and it’s partners.
Prioritizing European Collaboration and Integration
Skyline places strategic priority on fostering and facilitating defense procurement projects involving multiple EU Member States, reinforcing intra-European cooperation in line with EU principles. By actively enabling innovation projects among European companies, Skyline not only helps Europe achieve greater resilience but also encourages standardization, interoperability, and economies of scale, essential to an efficient defense industrial base. Our model aligns to promote European industrial integration, fostering collaborative innovation, and maximizing returns from collective defense investments—ultimately strengthening Europe’s unified capacity to respond decisively to evolving security threats.
Skyline Leadership Team
Dr. Jiri Svoboda (Managing Director/Owner) served in the Czech Army in combat missions. During his active service, he held leadership and professional positions at various levels of command and control. At the level of the General Staff of the Army of the Czech Republic, he participated in the coordination and development of force capabilities within NATO. Following his service in the Army, he worked at a senior position in the Ministry of Interior of the Czech Republic. After retiring from government service, Jiri Svoboda has worked relentlessly on ensuring that Czech and allied forces are outfitted with the best gear and munitions to defend democracy. Jiri Svoboda completed doctoral studies in economics and management at University of Defense Brno.
Mr. Josef Machacek (Security and Compliance Director/Owner) served in Czech Republic’s counterintelligence service. Following his operational service he was then head of security for the City of Prague, then deputy chief of administration of the Central Bohemian Region, and then advisor to the Minister of Interior of the Czech Republic. Currently Josef Machacek is adviser to the Mayor of Prague for Security Affairs. Mr. Machacek focuses on resiliency and security of Skyline supply chains and processes.
Dr. Marcela Hradecka (Financial Director) – A licensed tax consultant since 1996, previously served as an internal auditor for the Czech Ministry of Defense at the VOP plant. She oversaw a strategic project for the adaptation of the CV90 infantry fighting vehicle, managing financial processes for a multi-billion contract.
Mr. Jonathan Zimmerman (Director of U.S. and Asia Strategic Procurement) – A business executive with extensive experience in mining, energy, and international trade, particularly in Asia and the United States. He has managed oil, gas, and mineral rights projects, including precious group metal (PGM) mining in Latin America, and has worked closely with state-owned enterprises and private sector partners in Asia on joint ventures, licensing agreements, and complex corporate transactions. His background includes serving as international legal counsel for major manufacturers in Asia and holding leadership roles in U.S.-based firms specializing in technology licensing, export controls, and regulatory compliance. With deep expertise in U.S.-Asia business relations, infrastructure development, and cross-border investment, he is adept at navigating supply chain challenges and complex international trade regulations.
Mr. Armen Agas (Strategy Director/Owner) – is a finance and security expert that in parallel serves as Vice Chairman of SARN, a U.S.-based firm specializing in distressed asset management in the security and energy sectors, and the Richard Richards Foundation, which promotes ethics in governance. SARN, led by former U.S. government officials, has played a key role in defense procurement, integrating Central European firms into the U.S. market, and supporting Iraq’s efforts to combat ISIS and Ukraine’s efforts to liberate its territories from Russian occupation. Agas has also been active in transatlantic policy, advising senior officials, military leaders, and policymakers across Europe.
Mr. Ondrej Slouf (Director Government Relations), has over two decades of experience in government public affairs in EU and Czech Republic. During this time, he lobbied on behalf of CEZ, SZ (Railway Infrastructure Manager), The Energy Regulatory Office, and others. he was a registered lobbyist in Brussels and spent eight years as the CEO of Access EU – EEIG (European Economic Interest Grouping), where he represented the interests of various energy, transportation and other assorted companies. He holds a law degree.
Mr. Marek Rejman (Director Public Relations), has been working in marketing and communications for over 25 years for clients such as Nokia, T Mobile and others. Rejman has also been involved in political campaigns, and headed Press Office of Central Bohemia region. Rejman was a head of advisors to Vice Chairwoman of the Parliament of the Czech Republic.
Dr. Arnošt Marks (Advisor for Innovation) is a seasoned expert in governmental innovation strategy, with over two decades of high-level experience in research and development policy, strategic innovation planning, and international scientific cooperation. His most prominent public service role was as Deputy Vice Prime-Minister for Research, Development, and Innovation of the Czech Republic (2014–2018), where he chaired national committees on applied research and cultural industries, led the reform of the national scientific evaluation system, and managed a €1.5 billion annual R&D budget. Earlier, as Director General at the Ministry of Regional Development (2003–2006), he was instrumental in drafting and negotiating the Czech Republic’s first EU-funded R&D Operational Programme (€2.7 billion). He also directed the €250 million CEITEC investment project integrating universities and the Academy of Sciences in biotech, nanotech, and materials science. Marks has consistently bridged government, academia, and international partners—especially in Germany, the US, Israel, and Taiwan—bringing systemic innovation strategies to life at national and EU levels.
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