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Martin Vohánka
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Martin Vohánka

Czech entrepreneur and philanthropist

Martin Vohánka is a Czech entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is the founder and chief executive of Eurowag, which provides payment and mobility services to road-transport companies.2

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Born Dec 11, 1975.1

About

Vohánka founded the business in 1995. Its parent company, W.A.G payment solutions, floated on the London Stock Exchange in 2021.

Vohánka is also involved in philanthropy and initiatives supporting civil society and economic reform in the Czech Republic. He co-founded the BLÍŽKSOBĚ Foundation and the Independent Journalism Foundation and was one of the investors behind the launch of Deník N.

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Companies

Early life and education

Vohánka grew up in Most, in northern Bohemia. After secondary school, he worked in life-insurance sales before moving into fuel trading and founding the business that became Eurowag in 1995.

Eurowag first served road hauliers with fuel-related services. Fuel cards and toll payments were added as the business grew. By 2016, it was among the larger fuel-card providers in Europe. That year, US private-equity firm TA Associates acquired a stake of about one-third in the company.

Eurowag expanded into other European countries and moved beyond fuel-related services into software and fleet management. Vohánka said the company wanted to give smaller hauliers access to more of those services through one platform.

In October 2021, W.A.G payment solutions, the company behind the Eurowag brand, completed an initial public offering in London. W.A.G payment solutions was valued at about £1 billion when it listed in London in October 2021. Vohánka stayed in a leadership as chief executive and kept a substantial stake in the company.

Eurowag later combined payments and toll services with navigation and fleet-management tools on one platform. In 2025, Bloomberg reported that Vohánka was looking to digitalisation as the trucking industry faced a shortage of drivers.

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Career

Occupation: manager, businessperson.6

  • Date not recordedFounded Nadace Independent Press3
  • Date not recordedFounded The Endowment Fund for Independent Journalism4
  • Date not recordedChief executive, W.A.G Payment Solutions5

Personal life

  • BornDec 11, 1975, Most7
  • CitizenshipCzech Republic8

Philanthropy

Vohánka has also funded projects in education, civil society and independent journalism. In 2016, he co-founded the BLÍŽKSOBĚ Foundation, which supports projects in civil society, education, democracy and cultural heritage.

He was also a co-founder of the Independent Journalism Foundation, which supports independent and investigative journalism. In 2018, he was one of the investors behind the launch of the Czech newspaper Deník N.

He was a founder of the Second Economic Transformation, a business-led initiative focused on the long-term competitiveness of the Czech economy.

In 2026, Vohánka became the first recipient of the Philanthropic Impact Award, presented by Forbes Poland, Impact CEE and Philanthropy for Impact for philanthropic work in Central and Eastern Europe.

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Awards

  • 2026Silver Medal of the President of the Senate9 10

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