Why Poland. Capturing the opportunity in the era of shift from globalization to regionalization

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Grzegorz W. Cimochowski

KPMG in Poland

 

Partner, Head of Business Advisory KPMG in Poland. Grzegorz has nearly 25 years of experience in professional services and financial services industry. He has worked for leading management consulting and professional services firms, managing teams responsible for strategic advisory and provision of advisory services to local and global financial institutions. He specializes in strategy and digital transformation. Head of Business Advisory Department at KPMG.

 

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Tomasz Kulik

PZU

 

PZU SA management board member since 14 October 2016 and PZU Życie SA management board member since 19 October 2016. He graduated from the Warsaw School of Economics. He also completed MBA studies at the University of Illinois and the Warsaw-Illinois Executive MBA program. Member of The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). Through most of his professional career he was associated with the Aviva Group (former Commercial Union). Prior to his appointment to the management board, he served as director of the planning and controlling department in PZU SA. He prepared the PZU Group’s strategy for the years 2016-2020 and the PZU Group’s capital and dividend policy. He was also the TFI PZU SA management board member, overseeing finance, risk, operations, IT and the corporate area.

 

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Jerzy Kwieciński

Bank Pekao S.A.

 

Vice President of the Management Board supervising the Corporate Banking and MIB Division. Jerzy Kwieciński is a graduate of Faculty of Materials Engineering of the Warsaw University of Technology and holds a degree of Doctor in the field of technical science. He also completed a postgraduate course for managers at the Warsaw School of Economics and an international Master of Business Administration (MBA) programme run by the University of Antwerp, the University of Staffordshire, the Free University of Brussels and the University of Warsaw. Jerzy Kwieciński also has experience in academic and research and development work, which he gained, among others at the Warsaw University of Technology and as a visiting professor at Brunel University of West London. Jerzy Kwieciński has more than 30 years of international experience in strategic planning, management of large organizations, programs and projects in the public, private, non-governmental and scientific research sectors, including energy sector. From 1993 to 2004, he worked for the European Commission Representation in Poland, where his duties included management of programmes and projects financed by the European Union. He also participated in the works preparing Poland for membership in the European Union. Between 2004 and 2005 he was the President of Europejskie Centrum Przedsiębiorczości sp. z o.o, where in 2008-2015 he acted as a Vice-President of the Management Board. In 2005, Jerzy Kwieciński took a position of the Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Regional Development, where he coordinated the national development policy and cohesion policy, including the work on the National Development Strategy for 2007-2015 and the National Cohesion Strategy for 2007-2013. Between 2008 and 2015, he served as President of the Management Board of JP Capital Group sp. z o.o., specializing in preparation and implementation of projects and innovations, including establishing and running start-ups. In that period he was also head of Fundacja Europejskie Centrum Przedsiębiorczości (European Entrepreneurship Centre Foundation). In 2015, he was appointed the Secretary of State in the Ministry of Development. Since 2015, he has been a member of the National Development CouncilIn November 2015, he was appointed the First Deputy of the Deputy Prime Minister in the Ministry of Development. From January 2018, he held the office of the Minister of Investment and Development, and from September 2019 he served also as the Minister of Finance. He held both functions until November 15, 2019. He worked on, among others on preparation and implementation of the Strategy for Responsible Development and implementation of cohesion policy. From January to December 2020 he acted as President of the Management Board of Polskie Górnictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo S.A. (PGNiG), he has been a member of the Supervisory Board in TUW Polski Gaz, Europolgaz SA and President of the Board of Directors PGNiG Upstream Norway. From March 2021, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Pekao Investment Banking S.A. and since April 2021, Member of the Supervisory Board of Pekao Leasing Sp. z o.o.

 

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Mark Loughran

Honeywell

 

Mark Loughran joined Honeywell in December 2021, as President, Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Mark is responsible for strengthening Honeywell’s position as a leading industrial technology provider to businesses across Central and Eastern Europe that are leveraging technology to make their operations safer, smarter and more sustainable. A strong and talented leader with a track record in software, technology and engineering, Mark is an expert in cloud-based computing and its role in transforming critical sectors, including telecoms and pharmaceutical, across CEE and the wider European continent. Mark joined Honeywell from Microsoft, where he held the positions of General Manager for Poland and the United Kingdom. Prior to Microsoft, Mark also held several senior leadership roles at other technology companies, including Regional President at Pace and General Manager, UK and Ireland at Nokia. He was also previously Vice President, CEE and UK at GSK. Mark holds a Doctorate in Erythromycin Biosynthesis from Cambridge University, United Kingdom.

 

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Loic Tassel

Procter & Gamble

 

Loïc Tassel leads P&G’s business across 57 countries in Europe, serving more than 850 million consumers. He is responsible for nearly a quarter of company sales and profit and one-third of P&G’s global workforce, operating across 33 P&G manufacturing sites and four global Research & Development centers in the region. Loïc leverages his knowledge of consumers, customers, competitors and the dynamic retail environment to lead P&G’s rapidly growing e-commerce business in the region, and to drive new models of responsible and sustainable consumption in Europe across the company’s operations, products and packaging. Since joining P&G in 1988 as an assistant brand manager in France, Loïc has spent his career developing winning organizations, building global brands and growing businesses across P&G’s brand portfolio and global operations. Prior to his current role, Loïc served as vice president for Shave Care in Europe and India, Middle East, and Africa, leading one of P&G’s biggest businesses worth more than $2.5 billion in revenue across 135 countries.

 

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Rafał Brzoska

‎InPost

 

CEO / Shareholder at Integer.pl / Inpost Group, Business Angel, Co-Founder in bValue VC and InovoVC. Rafał Brzoska is the founder and CEO of InPost, a logistics company that operates over 11,000 parcel lockers in Poland. Brzoska started out by founding Integer Group in 1999, which distributed leaflets. Seven years later, he started InPost, which operates automated lockers that allow customers to drop off and collect packages anytime of the day. The company went public in Amsterdam in January 2021, raising over $3 billion in its IPO.

 

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Krzysztof Krawczyk

CVC Capital Partners

 

Krzysztof Krawczyk serves as Partner, Head of Poland at CVC Capital Partners. He serves as Chairman of the Supervisory Board at Żabka Polska. He also served as Board Member at ÅR Packaging Group. He serves as Vice President & Treasurer at Polish Private Equity Association. He previously served as Managing Partner at Innova Capital. Prior to joining Innova in 2000, Krzysztof Krawczyk worked at Pioneer Investment Poland and Daiwa Institute of Research. He is a Co-Founder and has been Co-Chairman of the LBO Committee of the Polish Private Equity Association. Mr. Krawczyk focuses on investments in business services. Mr. Krawczyk holds a degree (with Honors) in Finance & Banking from the Warsaw School of Economics.

 

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