Radim Jančura is a Czech businessman. He is founder, sole owner and managing director of Student Agency and board member of its subsidiary RegioJet

RegioJet

RegioJet is a private railway operator in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. It is a subsidiary of Student Agency partnered with Keolis.-Routes:In the Czech Republic, RegioJet operates trains between Prague and Havířov...

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Radim Jančura is a graduate of Brno University of Technology

Brno University of Technology

Brno University of Technology is a university located in Brno, Czech Republic...

 in the early 1990s, he was also on the student exchange in London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

. After two months he returned to Brno

Brno

Brno by population and area is the second largest city in the Czech Republic, the largest Moravian city, and the historical capital city of the Margraviate of Moravia. Brno is the administrative centre of the South Moravian Region where it forms a separate district Brno-City District...

 and set up an au pair agency (Student Agency) working with British agencies to send Czechs and Slovaks to Britain. Student Agency is one of the most popular transport companies in the Czech Republic

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

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Jančura was named Czech Entrepreneur of the Year in 2005 by Ernst and Young company.

External links

• Radim Jančura – Founder and head of Student Agency, Radio.cz
• Radim Jančura – Man who found a passage to profit, Financial Times
• Businessman launches campaign against ČSSD , PragueMonitor.com
• Czech Business Weekly