A Berlin-based Software QA Automation Engineer with an MBA in IT Management, excels in software testing, automation, and project management. His Agile expertise, certifications, and volunteer work highlight his dynamic and results-oriented approach.

Extensive experience in financial consulting, particularly in mortgage loans. After graduating from the University of Economics in Prague (Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees), he has been working as a mortgage broker at Gepard Finance a.s. since 2009.

Martin Košťál leads growth and product strategy at the cryptocurrency exchange Coinmate, where he draws on more than fifteen years of experience in banking, consulting, and IT management — from core banking projects at Raiffeisenbank, through international banking transformation programs at Greyson and zeb consulting, to his role as CIO at Hello Bank. He has gained extensive know-how in security, regulation, and customer experience. Martin joined Coinmate at a time when the world of cryptocurrencies is transforming from a free-spirited environment into a regulated industry, and he is helping Coinmate establish processes that strengthen trust and make cryptocurrencies more accessible to everyday users.

Born in Kabul. After completing his basic and secondary education in Afghanistan, he managed to avoid conscription into the communist army by briefly serving in a local police unit. Thanks to excellent academic results, he received a government scholarship to study abroad and arrived in Czechoslovakia in 1985. Although he initially aimed to study economics, he was placed in an agricultural program. He first completed a Czech language course in Dobruška and then enrolled at the Institute of Tropics and Subtropics at the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague.
After graduating as an agricultural engineer, Nadri stayed in the Czech Republic and became involved in business. In 1992, he co-founded a boutique and wholesale shop selling Turkish leather and textiles in Prague’s Dejvice. Over the years, he also ran a university club and a popular pub, employing many foreign students and supporting the immigrant community.
In 2005, he founded the Czech-Afghan Chamber of Commerce to promote economic cooperation between the two countries. He organized a business forum at the Czech Senate that brought Afghan ministers and Czech officials together and resulted in several agreements, including a contract for the delivery of Czech helicopters to Afghanistan and training programs for Afghan military personnel. Despite administrative challenges, including a legal dispute over rental fees at the Senate, he continued his work through a restructured Czech-Slovak-Afghan Chamber.
Throughout his life, Nadri has maintained strong ties with Afghanistan and made several visits, including a final one in July 2021, just before the Taliban returned to power. He continues to live in Prague with his wife and children, contributing to intercultural dialogue and Czech-Afghan relations.