Jan Jírovec has become the new COO in Jakub Havrlant´s Rockaway group. His task will be to fulfill the long-term vision of the group and manage its strategic activities. He will also participate in searching new investment opportunities on Central European as well as global market. Jan Jírovec came to Rockaway from Allegro Group CZ which he led as a Country Manager. In the Czech Republic, Allegro runs projects such as Heureka, Aukro or NetDirect.
Rockaway team has been strengthened also with Michaela Papežová who left Allegro Group CZ as a PR manager. In Rockaway, she will deal with the communication with media and fulfilling the communication strategy. She worked for Allegro for more than three years and was responsible for external communication of all brands from the portfolio as well as for internal communication.
Internet businessman Jakub Havrlant joined all his activities under Rockaway group last year. There are both portfolio projects in which he has his share as well as his strategic activities in which Jakub Havrlant and his team actively participate. At the end of 2013, the turnover of the projects of Rockaway reached 780 million CZK. This year, he plans to invest 300 million CZK into Czech and foreign projects from the field of consumer internet via newly opened fund Rockaway Capital. He also announced new investments into Brazilian project of personal financing and into Brand Embassy company; at the end of March he launched his project Bileto.cz.
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