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Ilja Laurs, CEO of independent app store GetJar.
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Ilja Laurs: World-Class High-Tech Trailblazer from Lithuania
Few people, if any, in the Baltic countries can rival Ilja Laurs in high-tech entrepreneurship.
The length of the trail he has blazed and the depth of his thinking has catapulted him to top level global telecommunication events worldwide, with the BBC, Forbes, The New York Times, USA Today and other media outlets queuing for his insights.
Accomplishments of Laurs, a native Lithuanian of Dutch descent and co-founder and CEO of Nextury Ventures, a venture capital fund that invests in early stage startups and new fast growth and high potential value ideas, have brought him major international rewards to be envied by many others from much larger technological superpowers than Lithuania.
A living business prodigy, he became European Manager of the Year 2011, an acknowledgment Laurs obtained from the European Business Press Association.
He was put on the list of Top 25 European Tech Leaders by Wall Street Journal and was in