Jakub Havrlant, Rockaway

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Jakub Havrlant

Founder of Rockaway

After successful exit from the role of CEO in a multinational e-commerce group, Jakub founded Czech investment group Rockaway Capital with the aim to bring a broader meaning to ā€œinternet businessā€. As a CEO of Rockaway he managed to build a strong portfolio of companies which achieved aggregate sales of more than EUR 2.5 billion in 2019 while employing more than five thousand people in 17 European countries. In a recent milestone Rockaway has sold its share in Mall Group, a leading e-commerce player in CEE, to the Polish e-commerce group Allegro for 1.13 billion USD making it the fifth largest sale of a domestic company with Czech owners in the last ten years.