Strategic investments – a key driver for Eastern European security

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Henry Foy

Financial Times

 

Henry Foy is the FT’s European Diplomatic Correspondent, based in Brussels. He reports on the EU’s foreign policy, relations between Brussels and other world powers, and the diplomatic intrigues between member states. Previously he was Moscow Bureau Chief, where he interviewed president Vladimir Putin and charted his regime’s descent into repression. He has also been posted in Warsaw and London. Henry joined the FT in 2013 from Reuters, where he was a correspondent in India.

 

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Beata Daszyńska-Muzyczka

BGK

 

Beata Daszyńska-Muzyczka has been professionally active in the banking sector for over 25 years. From 1994 to 2016 she was employed at Bank Zachodni WBK (currently Santander Bank Polska). She managed many divisions and, among other things, the implementation of strategic projects, such as a new branch model or MiniBank24 electronic banking. She was responsible for the restructuring and optimization of banking processes. She managed the Logistics and Real Estate Division and she was the Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board of BZ WBK Nieruchomości. She was responsible for the project of transforming the organizational culture „Bank of the New Generation”. She also headed the Business Partnership Division. In 2015, Beata Daszyńska-Muzyczka was appointed the Management Board Member of BZ WBK. Beata Daszyńska-Muzyczka is the 20th president of BGK since the bank was founded almost 100 years ago. Together with other members of the management board, she prepared and implemented a four-year strategy for 2017-2020, which allowed BGK to focus more on the key areas of activity: financing and mobilizing capital for investments, export and enterprise development, supporting sustainable development, as well as efficient distribution of EU funds. Within four years, BGK’s ability to mobilize capital for economic development increased fivefold. Additionally, the bank, while implementing its new strategy, strengthened its activity outside Poland and opened representative offices in London, Brussels, Frankfurt and Amsterdam. More are planned in the United States and Asia. The bank’s management board has prepared another strategy for 2021-2025. Its business pillars are: sustainable development, social commitment, international cooperation and business. As Beata Daszyńska-Muzyczka says „our ambition is to inspire, show the way, be a leader in sustainable social and economic development programs”. President Daszyńska-Muzyczka is the originator and initiator of the establishment of the most important financial project in Central and Eastern Europe – the Three Seas Initiative Fund, and since 2019 she has been the chairwoman of its supervisory board. The aim of the Fund is to develop infrastructure in the countries of the Three Seas region by financing transport, energy and digital projects, which will support the integration and economic cohesion of the entire EU. She is also the originator of the 3W: Water-Hydrogen-Carbon initiative, implemented by BGK. She announced this initiative in August 2021 during the 3W Congress: „Water-Hydrogen-Carbon”, organized for the first time as part of the „4th Development Vision Forum in Gdynia”. The bank itself has become one of the ten best-rated companies in Poland in the Ranking of Socially Responsible Companies and has won the TOP Employer title four times. Beata Daszyńska-Muzyczka is a member of the College of the President of the Republic of Poland for International Policy, which is part of the President’s International Policy Office. She is also a member of the Chapter of the Economic Award of the President of the Republic of Poland and the chairwoman of the program council of the Federation of Polish Entrepreneurs. She sits in the board of the Economic Award Forum „Wizja Rozwoju”, the program board of the ICAN Management Review Congress, and the Board of the Medical University in Wrocław. Honored with many awards, incl. President Lech Kaczyński Promethean Prize, the Bank Manager of the Year 2018 by Gazeta Bankowa, she was also in the Top 10 Polish Managers of Forbes magazine. In 2021 she was recognized by Federacja Przedsiebiorców Polskich as the Economic Personality of the Year 2021. The same year she has been awarded by the President of Estonia Kersti Kaljulaid with the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana for her contribution to deepening friendly relations with Estonia through her involvement in building the Three Seas Initiative. A graduate of economic universities with a specialization in corporate finance management and the Advance Leadership Program at the ICAN Institute. She also graduated from the University of Cambridge – Judge Business School. Privately, an aviation enthusiast, with a diploma of aircraft accessories mechanic. In the process of obtaining a pilot’s license.

 

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Paweł Gruza

PKO Bank Polski

 

Vice President of the Management Board of the PKO Bank Polski, managing the work of the management board. Graduate of the Warsaw University, Faculty of Law and Administration. From 10 September 2018 he held the position of the Vice President of the Management Board (International Assets) in KGHM Polska Miedź S.A. An Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Finance since November 2016. Co-author of the tax reform. An Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of the State Treasury from April to November 2016. He managed a portfolio of companies with State Treasury ownership and state legal entities. He worked on reforming supervision over State Treasury companies. An expert and a management board member of Fundacja Republikańska (Republican Foundation) from 2007 to 2016. As a representative of the minister responsible for financial institutions he was also a member of the Polish Financial Supervision Authority. He was a partner and a management board member of MMR Consulting sp. z o.o., as well as a partner in the tax consultant office GWW Tax from 2007 to 2016. He worked in the Artur Andersen and Ernst & Young consultancy companies from 2000 to 2006. He managed interdisciplinary consultant projects for Polish and international companies from the industrial and financial sector. Author and co-author of numerous publications on taxes and social security.

 

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Marek Dietl

GPW

 

Dr. Marek Dietl is the CEO of GPW (Warsaw Stock Exchange) and the economic adviser to the President of Poland. He has spent almost 20 years in the consulting and venture capital industries. He collected experience as a non-executive board member of more than 25 organizations. Marek Dietl frequently undertakes community and academic activities. He used to serve as a mediator at the arbitration court of the Financial Supervision Commission and adviser to the President of Energy Regulation Office. Marek Dietl is also an assistant professor at the SGH-Warsaw School of Economics.

 

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Christopher Padilla

IBM

 

As Vice President, Government and Regulatory Affairs for the IBM Corporation, Christopher Padilla heads the company’s global government affairs function, leading a team of more than 100 professionals in thirty-seven countries. Prior to joining IBM, Chris served as Under Secretary for International Trade and as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration at the U.S. Department of Commerce. He previously served as Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick, and prior to that was an Assistant U.S. Trade Representative. Chris worked for more than fifteen years in the private sector, holding a variety of positions in marketing, business development, and government affairs at AT&T, Lucent Technologies, and Eastman Kodak Company. He holds both a Bachelor's degree and a Master's degree in international studies from Johns Hopkins University.

 

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Roman Regelman

BNY Mellon

 

Roman Regelman is Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of Securities Services and Digital. He is a member of BNY Mellon’s Executive Committee. Securities Services includes Asset Servicing and Issuer Services, which comprises the Corporate Trust and Depositary Receipts businesses. As CEO of Securities Services, Roman focuses on product strategy and development to accelerate the transformation of Securities Services into a more data- and analytics-led business. He is responsible for driving end-to-end delivery of solutions to our Asset Servicing and Corporate Trust and Depositary Receipts clients. As Head of Digital, Roman sets the direction for the firm’s digital future and drives investments in our digital capabilities, including data management, analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics. Prior to joining BNY Mellon, Roman took on senior leadership roles that spanned Chief Operating Officer, Chief Digital Officer, Head of Transformation and Head of Customer Journeys. He was a partner and managing director of Boston Consulting Group (BCG), where he co-led its Financial Institutions Digital business and led Customer Journey, North American Financial Institutions Operations and Lean Practices. At BCG, he ran numerous financial institution and service company transformations, including end-to-end customer journeys, process digitization, Agile, restructuring technology and operations. Prior to BCG, he worked at Booz and Company, Bain & Company, NerveWire/Wipro, Mitchell Madison Group, One Core, GTE/BBN and Gazeta Distribution. Roman earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from St. Petersburg State Technical University, St. Petersburg, Russia and a Master of Business Administration from Olin Graduate Business School at Babson College, Wellesley, Mass. He is a recognized author and thought leader on digital and financial services industry topics.

 

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Christina Raab

Accenture

 

Christina Raab is the market unit lead for Accenture in Austria, Germany and Switzerland (ASG). In this role, Christina supports clients from various industries with complex business transformations, increasing their digital footprint at rapid speed and creating new customer experiences to drive brand loyalty. She has a strong focus on creating new value for businesses, their employees and customers through the combination of technology and human-led innovation. She is also a member of Accenture’s Global Management Committee. Before taking on her role as market unit lead for ASG in September 2021, Christina led Accenture’s Products organization in ASG with responsibility for clients from the automotive, manufacturing and consumer goods industries, among others. In this role, she worked together with some of the company’s top clients in the region to develop and implement digital growth strategies, new sales and service models as well as learning and upskilling programs for a digitally savvy workforce. Christina is convinced that creating and sustaining value for clients in a time of fast-paced change and compressive transformations requires new ways of working together with partners and a strong ecosystem approach. Throughout her career at Accenture, which she started in 2000 as a Strategy consultant, Christina has been passionate about driving the company’s inclusion and diversity agenda. She is actively involved in many company-wide initiatives in this field, such as the Pride@Accenture network, and has also been keen to promote gender equality, cultural diversity and LGBTIQ rights externally. Christina has a master’s degree in business administration and business Italian from the University of Passau. Christina speaks German, English and Italian fluently.

 

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