Banking & Insurance Tech Advisory Board

A graduate of the Faculty of Mathematics at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin and MBA studies at the Warsaw University of Technology. She also completed postgraduate studies in management and “IT in business” at the Warsaw School of Economics. For 20 years she was associated with the ING Group. She started her career at ING Barings, then she worked in the IT Division of ING Bank Śląski, following the path from a specialist to the Director of the IT Support Department. From 2006, as the President of the Management Board, she built ING Tech Poland, the technology center of the ING Group providing IT services, including cybersecurity and cloud solutions, to clients in over 20 countries. In 2017, she took up the position of Head of IT Poland at Nordea, taking part, among others, in building the Nordea Horizon Center – a modern IT monitoring and operations center. As Global Head of Technology Sourcing, she was also responsible at Nordea for the implementation of the strategy for the use of global IT service centers. Since January 2021, he has been the Vice President of the Management Board of BNP Paribas Bank Polska S.A. supervising the Area of ​​New Technologies and Cybersecurity.

Ms Magdalena Nowicka is actively involved in projects supporting the development of women in the world of new technologies. She is a mentor of the “Technology in a skirt” program.

Slawek Soszynski is a seasoned CIO and CTO with 20+ years of experience in Technology and Cybersecurity at top financial institutions including ING, J.P. Morgan and Citi. He has proven track record of leading successful multi-million dollar P&L, international talents development and operating at Management Board level within Financial, Banking and Insurance sectors. Acting as agent of change by identifying strategic need, delivering solutions, leading transformation and gaining support from stakeholders at all levels. Slawek is a trusted and strategic advisor to startups with 150+ M&A and patents development experience.

Vice President of the Bank’s Management Board, supervising the Technology and Operation Banking Division

For nearly 30 years, he has been professionally associated with Accenture, where he has held the role of Managing Director since 2005. From 2005 to 2013, he led the IT technology practice at Accenture in Poland. Between 2013 and 2015, he built the banking digital transformation practice in Poland, and since 2016, he became the leader of the global practice specializing in digital banking startups.

From 2017 to 2019, he led the program that resulted in the creation of a new digital bank in France, overseeing until 2023 the banks evolution, maintenance and operational continuity. At the same time, he worked closely with leading banks in Poland, delivering projects in retail, corporate, and investment banking.

He has led large, multi-year transformational programs for clients in Poland and around the world, transforming local, regional, and global organizations using both established and new technologies. He possesses extensive international experience, having worked on major projects for financial institutions in the USA, Canada, the UK, France, Spain, Germany, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Hungary, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, Singapore.

He graduated with honors from the Faculty of Electronics at the Warsaw University of Technology and completed postgraduate studies in IT at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. He has completed numerous international trainings and programs related to the management of complex programs, technology solution development, cybersecurity, cloud, blockchain, Gen AI, risk management.

Marcin Zygmanowski meets suitability requirements determined in art. 22aa of the Banking Law Act.