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Radim Jančura (born 12 January 1972 in

Ostrava Ostrava (; pl, Ostrawa; german: Ostrau ) is a city in the north-east of the Czech Republic, and the capital of the Moravian-Silesian Region. It has about 280,000 inhabitants. It lies from the border with Poland, at the confluences of four rive ...

) is a

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businessman. He is the founder, sole owner and managing director of

Student Agency Student Agency is a Czech travel agency whose main focuses are on au-pair programmes, resale of airline tickets, bus and rail transport. Its headquarters are in Brno, Czech Republic. Despite the company's name, their services are not sold exclu ...

Commercial register at justice.cz, identification number (IČ) 25317075 (STUDENT AGENCY, s.r.o.) and a board member of its subsidiary

RegioJet RegioJet a.s. ( VKM: RJ) is a private Czech provider of passenger rail and bus transport. The company Student Agency, owned by Czech businessman Radim Jančura, is the sole owner. A sister company of the same name, with its registered office in ...

. In the early 1990s Radim Jančura graduated from

Brno University of Technology Brno University of Technology (abbreviated: ''BUT''; in Czech: Vysoké učení technické v Brně – Czech abbreviation: ''VUT'') is a university located in Brno, Czech Republic. Being founded in 1899 and initially offering a single course ...

and was also an exchange student in

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

. After two months he returned to

Brno Brno ( , ; german: Brünn ) is a city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers, Brno has about 380,000 inhabitants, making it the second-largest city in the Czech Republic ...

and set up an

au pair An au pair (; plural: au pairs) is a helper from a foreign country working for, and living as part of, a host family. Typically, au pairs take on a share of the family's responsibility for childcare as well as some housework, and receive a monet ...

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

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today. Jančura was named Czech Entrepreneur of the Year in 2005 by

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.Press release of Ernst & Young dated 23 February 2006
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Radim Jančura – Founder and head of Student Agency
Radio.cz

Financial Times
Businessman launches campaign against ČSSD
PragueMonitor.com
Czech Business Weekly
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