Minister of Industry and Trade Jan Mládek entrusts Ondřej Votruba with management of CzechInvest

“My goal is to make CzechInvest an open, pro-client institution that will primarily attract to the Czech Republic new investments representing necessary new jobs and opportunities for Czech suppliers,” says Ondřej Votruba, acting CEO of CzechInvest, who further adds that this does not mean that the agency had not previously tried to achieve that goal, but rather that it did not have the necessary support. Of course, drawing financial resources from EU structural funds is also a priority.

New general director wil closely cooperate with advisor of minister of industry and trade Mr. Jan Amos Havelka. The revitalization of CzechInvest Agency will be their collaborative goal.

Ondřej Votruba was born in Prague on 15 December 1977. He is a graduate of the University of Economics in Prague. From 2002, he worked at the Prague branch of JETRO, the Japanese governmental agency for trade and investment support. In 2006 Mr. Votruba joined CzechInvest, where he served as director of the agency’s Tokyo office from June 2006 to February 2012. Upon returning to Prague, he became director of Investment Projects Department at CzechInvest and later director of the Investment Division. In addition to his native Czech, Mr. Votruba speaks English, Japanese and German.

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Adéla Tomíčková, spokesperson, phone: +420 296 342 832, adela.tomickova@czechinvest.org

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