E-shops riding the AI wave

Dominik Píchal

CEO & Founder, Grizly

Dominik Píchal is the CEO and founder of Grizly, a Czech healthy-food brand best known for its wide range of nuts, dried fruit and snacks. Since 2014 he has grown the e-shop into one of Central Europe's leaders in the healthy-nutrition segment, with more than half a million loyal customers.

Táňa Ondrejková

Founder & Investor, pelikan.sk, Gluon Syndicate

Táňa Ondrejková is the co-founder of the travel portal pelikan.sk. She has also co-founded fashion e-commerce platforms operating across the V4 countries and is an angel investor. Over the past three years she has invested in several startups as well as scale-ups. As an investor she appears on the show Jama Levova, a licensed format of the American Shark Tank. She is a co-founder of Gluon Syndicate – an angel investor club in Slovakia.

Michal Pastier

Creative Director, Co-founder Darwin & the Machines, GoBigname, angel investor

Michal Pastier is an entrepreneur, investor and marketer with over 15 years of experience, during which he has worked on more than 250 projects building new brands and revitalising existing ones. He was also named among the Top 100 European Innovators by Google and the Financial Times, made the cover of Forbes and the Forbes 30 Under 30 list.

Jiří Zima

Founder NICEBOY® & FURIOSA®

Jiří Zima is the founder of the brands NICEBOY® and FURIOSA®. He built one of the fastest-growing Czech companies in consumer electronics and gradually expanded his business into the world of jewellery and fashion accessories. With NICEBOY he reached revenue exceeding half a billion CZK and became an active figure on the Czech e-commerce scene.

Radovan Andrej Grežo

Managing & Creative Director

Radovan Andrej Grežo invented the Dedoles hamsters, and today that's all anyone cares about. But before that, all anyone cared about was that he spent 10 years as Creative Director at Apple. And before that, that he created international TV campaigns for T-Mobile. And before that, nobody cared about Radovan at all. Today he runs his own agency in Prague called Somebody&Somebody, working both for major clients (XXXLutz, Tento, Subway, Footshop…) and for many smaller brands among e-shops (Kulina, MK Lůžkoviny, mioWell…).

Tomáš Čech

Founder Angry Beards

Tomáš is the founder of the Třebíč-based men's grooming brand Angry Beards, known for its unconventional, honest communication, bold marketing and a strong focus on direct D2C sales. He started his business during his studies at the Prague University of Economics, launching the first Angry Beards beard products in 2017. He never returned to his studies and fully devoted himself to building the brand. Together with creative teams he gradually shaped the strategy and direction of three brands, which last year reached revenue of nearly a quarter of a billion CZK. After eight years at the helm, where he also served as marketing manager among other roles, he handed over his executive positions. Today he is the majority owner of the company and focuses on its further growth while broadening his experience across the industry. A Třebíč native, wannabe boxer, Forbes 30 Under 30 2024, and proud owner of a dog named Mikeš.

Adam Bórik

CEO JabkoLevně

Adam Bórik is the owner of JabkoLevně, a company focused on selling refurbished and used Apple products. He started selling more than 8 years ago, and recently the company has taken off primarily thanks to its focus on a personal brand.

Jan Hospodka

CEO, Shoptet

Jan is CEO of Shoptet, the leading e-commerce platform provider in Central Europe. More than 45,000 online stores in Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary run on its platform. His background is in finance; he has been with Shoptet since 2019.

Adam Bórik

CEO JabkoLevně

Adam Bórik is the owner of JabkoLevně, a company focused on selling refurbished and used Apple products. He started selling more than 8 years ago, and recently the company has taken off primarily thanks to its focus on a personal brand.

Radovan Andrej Grežo

Managing & Creative Director

Radovan Andrej Grežo invented the Dedoles hamsters, and today that's all anyone cares about. But before that, all anyone cared about was that he spent 10 years as Creative Director at Apple. And before that, that he created international TV campaigns for T-Mobile. And before that, nobody cared about Radovan at all. Today he runs his own agency in Prague called Somebody&Somebody, working both for major clients (XXXLutz, Tento, Subway, Footshop…) and for many smaller brands among e-shops (Kulina, MK Lůžkoviny, mioWell…).

Tomáš Čech

Founder Angry Beards

Tomáš is the founder of the Třebíč-based men's grooming brand Angry Beards, known for its unconventional, honest communication, bold marketing and a strong focus on direct D2C sales. He started his business during his studies at the Prague University of Economics, launching the first Angry Beards beard products in 2017. He never returned to his studies and fully devoted himself to building the brand. Together with creative teams he gradually shaped the strategy and direction of three brands, which last year reached revenue of nearly a quarter of a billion CZK. After eight years at the helm, where he also served as marketing manager among other roles, he handed over his executive positions. Today he is the majority owner of the company and focuses on its further growth while broadening his experience across the industry. A Třebíč native, wannabe boxer, Forbes 30 Under 30 2024, and proud owner of a dog named Mikeš.

Pavel Ungr

SEO consultant & online marketing specialist

Pavel Ungr is an experienced SEO consultant and online marketing specialist with more than 20 years of experience. He has been doing SEO since 2005 and over his career has worked on hundreds of projects of various sizes, from small micro-sites to large web portals. He focuses on strategic SEO, content marketing and long-term growth of websites' visibility in search engines. He is known for his analytical approach, his emphasis on content quality and his ability to connect technical solutions with clients' business goals.

Raul Rodriguez

CEO Dajana Rodriguez

Raul Rodriguez is the CEO of the fashion brand Dajana Rodriguez. In recent months he has fully brought AI and vibe coding into the real day-to-day running of the company – not just as a topic for presentations, but as a tool that moves the numbers. Using AI he has built several internal applications, automated company processes and cut fixed costs by more than €24,000 a month. He shares his experience directly and without theory: showing concrete deployments that have an immediate impact on the business. His motto: “No fluff, no waffle – just pure practice.”