Jan Havel (CZ)
Co-Founder and Managing Partner at ACTUM Digital
Leads our Swiss Innovation Group
An avid runner based in Prague
Meet Jan at:
Boye Aarhus 26 conference
Track leader: Tech Leadership
Presentation: TBD from Digital Strategy track
Dates: November 3 - 5
About Jan Havel
Jan is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at ACTUM Digital, an investor, board member, and university teacher, dedicated to strategic leadership with a vision of building a company that will last a hundred years.
He's held the role for 30 years since co-founding the company in 1996, and is responsible for strategic development and global presence, sitting on the Executive Board as statutory representative of ACTUM Digital Czechia and Chairman of the Board of ACTUM Digital Switzerland.
Beyond ACTUM, Jan sits on the Board of SNAXE.io, a company building digital solutions to help people build resilience against toxic work environments - think Duolingo for workplace resilience. He's also Member of the Board and CTO of the Wharton Club of Germany and Austria, and works as a university teacher, bringing his experience in strategic and digital leadership into the classroom.
Based in Prague, he's built ACTUM into a group of companies with offices across Europe and clients worldwide.
Jan was a guest star in our Swiss Corporate Innovation Group in February 2024, where he introduced us to the SCARF model. The SCARF model involves five domains of human social experience: status, certainty, autonomy, relatedness, and fairness. Today Jan leads this group
About ACTUM Digital
ACTUM Digital is a group of companies headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic with offices in Germany and Netherlands and global clients from US to Japan to Bahrain. Founded in 1996, Actum employs 250+ experts who serve the world's largest companies including Christie's, Allianz, METRO, Innogy,Microsoft and Allianz.
Actum strategically designs, implements, and maintains platforms of digital marketing and commerce. That includes advanced web content management, e-commerce, search, digital asset management, campaign management, predictive analytics, e-mailing and engagement automation, and more.
Their consulting unit helps clients leverage their investments in digital platforms by providing content strategies, advanced segmentation, and mathematical modeling, e-mailing execution, performance-based marketing, and commerce, reporting & optimization.
Blog posts with Jan
There's something happening with search (October 2024)
Past conference appearances
Boye Aarhus 24 conference
Track leader: Corporate Innovation
Date: November 7
Boye Aarhus 23 conference
Presentation: The present and future of evaluating content performance
Track: Digital Communication
MarTech briefing Hamburg 2023
Presentation: How and why we moved on from focusing on increasing ecommerce revenue
Slides: Download (as PDF)