Juraj Vaculík has over twenty years’ experience of working as a leader with broad experiences from political revolution to international media and advertising industry. In 2010, Juraj co-founded

AeroMobil The AeroMobil s.r.o. AeroMobil is a prototype roadable aircraft, designed by Štefan Klein and first flown in 2013. The aircraft will be produced by Slovak company AeroMobil s.r.o. AeroMobil s.r.o. company co-founder and CEO Juraj Vaculík ...

and manages the company as its CEO. He also acts as an

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with investments into successful start-up projects in the media content, IT, and alternative transport sectors throughout Europe and the US.

Velvet Revolution

During

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in 1989 which ends communist era in former

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Juraj Vaculík was one of the key persons in Student Movement which has started process of democratization and established new post-revolution government in Slovakia.

Advertising Industry

At the beginning of the 90’s he started his career as a creative director for major global advertising agencies which started their operations in Czechia and Slovakia. In 1996 Juraj founded MADE BY VACULIK - one of the leading independent advertising agencies in the CEE region, extending its reach to over 30 countries.

Revolution in personal transportation

In 2010 Juraj co-founded

and manages the company as its CEO. In 2013, together with the inventor and co-founder Stefan Klein, he unveiled the pre-prototype of AeroMobil 2.5 at the SAE Conference in Montreal. A year later, an experimental prototype of AeroMobil 3.0 was developed under his lead with the team of 12 people and presented at the Pioneers festival in Vienna. At the beginning of 2015, AeroMobil successfully attracted the attention of visitors and potential customers at the most prestigious supercars show, Top Marques Monaco alongside the prestigious sports vehicles from around the world. Later in June, AeroMobil was presented at the Founders Forum event in the UK, where it caught the attention of many visitors and the Financial Times. In October, the public experienced the prototype at the

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in Milan, where it was part of the Slovak exposition. Renowned magazine, Popular Science, presented AeroMobil with Invention of the Year 2015 award and UK edition od

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ranked the project among the top 10 rule breakers in 2014.

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