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He has a degree in economics from the City College of New York (1971) and degrees in management and interpersonal relationships from Webster University in Vienna (1983). For almost 25 years worked at Citibank on various positions, inter alia, managerial positions at branches of this bank in Japan, Austria, Great Britain and France. At the beginning of the 90s focused on management activities in Poland. He was an independent consultant co-participating in organizing Citibank in Warsaw. Currently member of the Supervisory Board of Gothaer Insurance Company and KRUK SA. He also sits in the Chapter of the Economic Award of the President of the Republic of Poland. Józef Wancer is a member of the board of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in Poland and a member of the council of the Business Centre Club. In 2005, Józef Wancer was awarded the Gold Cross of Merit for notable achievements in the banking industry during the period of transformation, and in 2011 was awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta.

GPW CEO since March 2024. Tomasz started his professional career with ABN AMRO brokerage house and Credit Suisse First Boston. He was Head of Institutional Sales at DM BZ WBK and President of the Management Board of CAIB Securities. He was Head of Emerging Europe Equity Research and Head of CEE Equities at UniCredit CAIB. He was Managing Director and Head of the Polish branch of Credit Suisse Securities, and Management Board Member and Head of the Public Market Department of Vestor Dom Maklerski. From 2019, he was Managing Director in the Capital Markets Department and Advisor to the Management Board at IPOPEMA Securities.

Tomasz graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Finance and Banking from the Warsaw School of Economics and earned a Master’s degree in International Finance from the University of Amsterdam. He completed his doctoral studies at Kozminski University, the Advanced Management Program at IESE Business School, and the Program for Leadership Development at Harvard Business School. He also studied at Staffordshire University Business School in the UK and at Wirtschaftsuniversität in Vienna.

He is a stockbroker (licence number 2110) and holds the title of Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). He has won multiple awards as the best stock analyst in prestigious rankings.

Brunon Bartkiewicz has held positions within ING, both in Poland and the Netherlands, since the 

1990’s. 

In 1995, Brunon was appointed CEO of Bank Śląski, which position he held until June 2000. 

As of then, he was General Manager and Management Board member at ING Direct NV, responsible 

for credit, market and operational risk, operational and IT support. 

He returned to ING Bank Śląski (Poland) as CEO in 2004 and held the position until 2010. At that time 

he became member of the General Management Team at ING Direct, responsible for activities in 

Spain, Italy, France, Great Britain and Australia. As of 2012 he was in charge of ING operations in 

France, Italy, Poland, Spain, Romania and Turkey. 

As Chief Innovation Officer at ING Group (since 2014), Brunon Bartkiewicz played a major role in accelerating ING’s pace of innovation, developing and promoting innovative ideas and solutions, applying new technologies and delivering speed-to-market of successful ideas.  

In 2016 he returned as CEO of ING Bank Śląski. 

Brunon Bartkiewicz is a graduate of the Main School of Planning and Statistics in Warsaw
(currently, Warsaw School of Economics) with a degree in Economics at the Foreign Trade.

Doctor of legal sciences, legal counsel, graduate of law at the University of Warsaw and Doctoral Studies at the Institute of Legal Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences
He is associated with the banking sector since 2003. From 2010 to 2020 he served as Director of the Legal and Legislative Team of the Polish Bank Association. Vice President of the Polish Bank Association since 2020. Chairman of the Steering Committee of the National Working Group on Reference Indicator Reform. Chairman of the Committee on Cyber Security of Banks. He has held numerous positions representing the banking sector at the national and European level, also within the European Banking Federation. He has participated in legislative work on numerous pieces of legislation in financial market regulations. Arbitrator of the Court of Arbitration at the Financial Supervisory Council.

Aleksandra is a senior leader with P&L responsibility, experienced in business development and innovation scaling. Her skills cover restructuring, customer intelligence, customer experience, digital & direct sales management. She lead complex teams of up to 1k people. Her most important engagements included creating first in Europe payment marketing platform offered by bank, introducing agile analytics approach to bank’s direct communication as well as agile transformation of Contact Center. Before joining mBank she worked for Big4 consulting company in business advisory.

Marcin Gadomski graduated from the Warsaw School of Economics, majoring in Finance and Banking. He was also a scholarship holder studying at the University of Kiel (Germany) and completed doctoral studies at the Warsaw School of Economics.
Marcin Gadomski began his professional career at the consulting company Ernst & Young (now EY) in 2002, where he conducted projects in the area of risk, finance and internal audit in financial institutions and non-financial enterprises. During this period, for several years he supported the Pekao Group in implementing among others requirements of IAS 39, Basel II and solutions regarding capital management as well as assets and liabilities management.

Then he continued his career with Deloitte Advisory, first in 2008-2012 as a Senior Manager, and, after a break, in 2016-2018 as a Director. As part of Deloitte Advisory, Marcin Gadomski provided solutions for the largest financial institutions in Poland and abroad (banks, insurers, leasing companies, brokerage houses), among others in the field of credit policy, risk models, improving the credit process for retail and corporate clients, market and liquidity risk management, regulatory requirements (e.g. IFRS 9, the PFSA recommendations, regulations regarding capital requirements, liquidity, information or reporting obligations), due diligences for takeover purposes.

In the years 2012 – 2016 Marcin Gadomski was the Director of Retail Credit Risk Unit at Bank Millennium. He was responsible for credit risk strategy, risk appetite, credit policy, credit assessment models, credit decision engines, risk reporting, credit product profitability assessment and credit process support for such business lines as unsecured consumer loans, mortgage loans and small business.

From August 2018 to November 2019 Marcin Gadomski was a Member of the Management Board of Pekao Bank Hipoteczny S.A., where on 20 November 2018 he obtained the consent of the Polish Financial Supervision Authority to entrust him the function of the Member of the Management Board supervising the management of material risks in the bank’s operations. Between 29 November 2019 and 21 April 2020 Marcin Gadomski held position of the Vice President of the Management Board of Bank Pekao S.A. responsible for Risks Management Division. Later he was Credit Risk Director there.

In her capacity, Bożena Graczyk has been CFO at ING Bank Śląski S.A. in Poland since 2017. Previously, from 1994 she was associated with KPMG, where she held the positions of Head of Accounting Advisory Services, and then Head of the Financial Risk Management Team. She became Partner, Financial Services in 2001.

Bożena Graczyk is a graduate of the Foreign Trade Faculty at the University of Lodz. She holds an Executive MBA in International Business from the University of Bristol, UK and École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, France and is also a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at the IESE Business School. She is a certified auditor.

He started his professional career in the insurance industry in 1997. Over the past 26 years, he  has held various management positions in the largest brokerage companies. He joined Marsh  McLennan in 2016.  

He studied law in Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (legal advisor) followed by an Advanced  Management Program at IESE Business School. He is a legal advisor – member of the District  Chamber of Legal Advisers in Poznań. 

Professional experience: 

Marsh & McLennan Companies (2016 – currently) 

CEO of Marsh Poland and Marsh McLennan Group in Poland 

Co-CEO Marsh McLennan of CEE 

Gras Savoye  

Vice-President of the Management Board 2004 – 2016 

Commercial Director, legal in counsel 1999 – 2004 

DAG Brokers, Dom Brokerów i Konsultantów Sp. z o.o. (broker and consultancy company) Vice-President of the Management Board, legal in-counsel 1997 – 1998 

Saga Brokers and Wielkopolski Dom Ubezpieczeń (insurance company) 

An experienced consultant, strategist, and UI/UX designer specializing in retail, corporate, and mobile banking. An interdisciplinary leader in digital projects, transformation strategies, service design concepts, and innovation through design for various sectors, including Fintech and Insurtech.

With academic backgrounds in engineering, psychology, and economics, he is a graduate of the Warsaw University of Technology, SWPS University, and SGH Warsaw School of Economics. He has also served as a juror for numerous UX-related competitions in corporate and advertising sectors.

He has designed and researched applications and systems for many international companies and some of the most innovative banks. His work includes collaborations with companies such as mBank, ING, PEKAO, Emirates NBD, Alior Bank, Idea Bank, Nest Bank, Fiserv, ETX Capital, and numerous non-financial firms.

Roger Hodgkiss joined Generali Poland as CSO in November 2019, and was appointed CEO in November 2020. 

He has decades of experience in various top management positions in the insurance industry. After a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Liverpool University, Roger qualified as a Chartered Accountant (ACA) with Deloitte in 1992. After several Finance and Operational roles with GE Capital, Roger joined RSA Insurance (British Group) in 2006 as CEO of Balta, the largest insurer in Latvia. From 2008-2009 Roger represented RSA in the JV with DIFI Insurance (Israel), establishing start-up Insurers in Poland, Czech and Russia. When RSA took full ownership of Link4 in 2009, Roger took over as CEO and led Link4 from 2009-2016. PZU purchased Link4 in 2014 and Roger was appointed to the main Board of PZU in 2016, responsible for all Non-Life Business. During his time in PZU Roger also chaired the Supervisory Boards of PZU’s businesses in the Baltics. After leaving PZU in 2019, Roger joined Generali Poland.

Outside of work, Roger’s interests are family (daughter Georgia, son William) and sport, having played both Rugby and Cricket at a high level throughout his adult life.

Mr. Witold Jaworski graduated from the Poznan University of Economics with the PhD title in the economics area. He has a wide professional experience in the insurance sector. His career began in 1995 from working for an American company Tillinghast Towers Perrin in Frankfurt. The following five years he spent covering analytical positions in the global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company. From 1996 to 2010 he was a part of a scientific team and being in charge of teaching and research assignments in insurance finance and strategy at Poznan University of Economics. Mr. Witold Jaworski from May 2004 till December 2012 was linked to the PZU Group and he filled the following positions:

• Supervisory Board Member in PZU Lietuva and PZU Lietuva Life
• Head of Motor Insurance Product Management, Head of P&C Product Department, Managing Director P&C, Products and Sales in PZU S.A., Product Management Department / Sales Department
• Supervisory Board Member in PZU Pension Fund (Vice Chairman), PZU TFI (Chairman)
• Board Member in PZU Non-Life and PZU Life

After two years at the position of CEO in Polish branch of Allianz, once more he joined the Management Board of PZU Group. He is responsible for Marketing Department: Bureau of Product Management, Marketing Office, Analysis and Actuarial Office, the area of analytical CRM, Director of the Individual Client Segment, Director of Customer Segment SME).

He is a seasoned leader with over 15 years of experience in driving digital transformation and implementing AI-powered solutions across the financial and insurance sectors. Currently, as Head of Product & Business Development at Ailleron S.A., he focuses on developing innovative platforms that enhance customer engagement.

Previously, he served as Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) at Lekta AI, where he led product strategy, sales, and marketing, helping the company expand into new markets. Before that, he held senior positions at Alior Bank, where he not only spearheaded digitalization and AI initiatives that transformed customer service and operational efficiency, but also gained extensive experience in credit risk. He was involved in the development of credit systems for both individual and business customers.

Manager with over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. He has worked as a software engineer, systems architect, project manager, and services director at Comarch, overseeing global BSS platform implementation projects.
He also gained experience as an external consultant for the largest Polish telecommunications companies, such as Orange and Polkomtel.
While working at ABB, he developed and implemented a videoconferencing and communication strategy for all company branches.
He is a graduate of Mathematics and Computer Science at Nicolaus Copernicus University.
In 2018, he joined the Ailleron group, where he is responsible for operations and development of the LiveBank business unit.
LiveBank is successfully used in international banking groups such as Citibank, Standard Chartered, ING, Santander, and mBank, supporting the service and sales of banking products in countries including Singapore, Hong Kong, China, India, the Middle East, and Europe.
The platform continuously evolves with innovative modules related to multichannel remote communication, artificial intelligence, data analysis, and process automation.

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Tomasz Lis is an experienced digital transformation expert, with extensive experience gained at international consulting firms such as Accenture and PwC. His specialization includes complex digital ecosystems.

He currently serves as Senior Partner Manager for Central and Eastern Europe and the Middle East at Magnolia, a leading enterprise Digital Experience platform and has worked with, among others, entities such as Bank Pekao, Alior Bank, Nordea Bank, Generali and Nationale Nederlanden. His strategic approach and ability to work with market leaders make him a valued partner for banks and insurance institutions in the region.

He is a graduate of universities such as, Francisco de Vitoria University, European University of Rome and Kozminski University.

Sławomir Łopalewski is a Member of the Board and a Managing Director of LUX MED Ubezpieczenia and a manager with many years of experience in complex insurance business building, mainly in bancassurance and multi-channel models. He is known for his excellent understanding of current needs, his determination to find solutions and his out-of-the-box approach to managing teams and projects. He was CEO of PKO Ubezpieczenia for more than a decade, previously CEO and Board Member in charge of sales and marketing of Nordea Życie, and a long-time member of the Audit Committee of PIU. He also worked for many years in consulting companies, mainly Deloitte Consulting. Sławomir is a graduate of IESE Business School/AMP and management courses at Harvard Business School and Kellogg School of Management, as well as the Warsaw School of Economics and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan.

PhD in Economics at the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH), alumnus of INSEAD and University of Illinois (EMBA), B.Sc. in Computer Engineering. Currently Chief Risk Officer of mBank S.A. and an Assistant Professor at the SGH Institute of Banking, Chairman of the Supervisory Boards of the Commercial Banks Protection System S.A., mTFI S.A. and mBank Hipoteczny S.A. He has over 25 years of international banking experience, gained at Bank Handlowy S.A., UniCredit Group and Bank Pekao S.A., where he was, among others, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Risk Officer. In 2014, he was awarded the title of Future Leader in Global Finance by the Institute of International Finance in Washington, DC.

Experienced manager for over 25 years holding key positions in the management boards of the largest international financial institutions in Poland, both in the insurance and banking markets. During that time he was responsible for a number of business functions in the areas of finance, operations, strategy, marketing and IT and technology.
In the insurance market, he held, among others, the position of Financial Director and Member of the Management Board of Zurich Polska (1998-2003), then he was associated with the Generali Group in Poland (2003-2006), where, as Member of the Management Board, he also held the position of Financial Director. In 2007, he was the founder and CEO of the first Polish digital insurer, BRE Ubezpieczenia. Afterwards, he was with mBank Group (formerly BRE Bank) for 10 years, where as Vice President he was responsible, among others, for retail banking in Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and then also for the areas of operations and IT, as well as supervising the divisions of technology, security and real estate.
For the last 7 years, he has been involved in the venture capital market, where, as managing partner, he supervised the activities of the corporate VC fund mAccelerator.
He is a graduate in foreign trade from the Faculty of Economics and Sociology at the University of Lodz.

Piotr Narloch has graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Gdansk. He has also completed the postgraduate studies at the Warsaw School of Banking and Insurance, as well as European Insurance Studies in Gdynia. Piotr Narloch has been active in the insurance industry for over 20 years. His professional career began in 1992 in Hestia Sopot as a financial insurance specialist. His next positions were Head of Financial Insurance Department and Head of Sales. In 1999-2001 he used to work for Generali Polska, being responsible for product development and establishing the systems and structures for sales. He also respectively took a function of a board member at Inter Poland and Inter Life, where he was responsible for the sales department, product development and marketing. Since September 2002 a president of the management board of Concordia Polska Group’s companies: Concordia Polska TUW, Concordia Capital and Concordia Innowacje. Currently Mr Narloch is a president of the management board of InterRisk TU SA Vienna Insurance Group. Piotr Narloch has also participated in many local and international courses, conferences and seminars related to insurance, i.e. risk management, negotiations in insurance, insurance marketing and management of insurance companies’ financial assets.

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.

Marcin is a Managing Director at S&P Global Ratings since 2014, executing across three senior commercial roles:
– Head of Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Relationship Management: leading a regional team managing entire EMEA existing client book & relationships across all business segments: corporates, financial institutions, sovereigns & public sector and also running the infrastructure and project finance business.
– Regional Head for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE): driving the franchise, strategy and management of the ratings business across the region.
– General Manager for Poland, running day-to-day operations of the Warsaw office.
In parallel is a member of the Supervisory Board of MCI Capital S.A., Chairman of the Program Board for the Fintech Digital CEE Congress, Member of the Board of Directors at the American Chamber of Commerce in Poland (AmCham) and the Leslaw A. Paga Foundation. Before joining S&P was an Executive Director at J.P. Morgan Corporate and Investment Bank in London, where he covered Russia, CIS, CEE, and Israel for Markets and Investor Services. He was also the Deputy General Manager for J.P. Morgan CIB in Poland. Prior to 2007 spent five years with Citi Corporate and Investment Banking, operating in Poland and CEE.

Andrzej Przewięźlikowski graduated from the AGH University of Science and Technology in the field of IT the Polish Open University, where he obtained the MBA title. He has been working at Comarch since 1998, among others as a programmer, Solution Manager and Product Manager in the telecommunications sector. In 2005-2006 he was the director of the research and development center and CTO. In 2007, he took the position of Consulting Director in the Loyalty & Airlines team in the service sector, where he managed an international group of consultants in Central Europe, DACH and the USA. In 2009, he became the director of the Loyalty & Marketing Solutions business unit, where he was responsible for the overall business in this area. On 24th of June, 2015, he was appointed by the General Shareholders’ Meeting of Comarch S.A. for the position of the Vice-President of the Management Board of Comarch S.A. Andrzej Przewięźlikowski is also a member of the management boards and supervisory boards of companies from the Comarch Group.

Mr Wojciech Rybak graduated from economics in the University of Szczecin (1993) and Tempus – Portassist Programme of the University of Antwerp (1992).

Since the beginning of his professional career he has been linked with banking. From September 1992 until August 1994 he worked in Bank Morski S.A. as a Credit Inspector and, subsequently, Manager of Business Credit Team. From September until November 1994 – Head of Credit Sub-unit in Bank Przemysłowo-Handlowy S.A., from December 1994 until September 1995 – specialist in the Capital Investment Department of Pomorski Bank Kredytowy S.A., and subsequently until April 1996 – Director of Branch PBB „Invest-Bank” S.A. in Szczecin. Since May 1996 he has been working in the Bank Millennium S.A. Group initially as a Branch Director in Szczecin (until March 2000), and, subsequently, as Director in the Customer Relationship Centre at the Bank’s Head Office (until August 2003). From August 2003, he was a Member of the Management Board of Millennium Leasing Sp. z o.o. supervising, inter alia, the sales network and from June 2009 until June 2016 – Chairman of the Management Board of Millennium Leasing Sp. z o.o.

Since 6 June 2016 Member of the Management Board of Bank Millennium S.A.. From 3 June 2019 until the day of merger with Bank Millennium S.A., i.e. 1 October 2019, also Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of Euro Bank S.A.

Independent member of supervisory boards and an advisor to companies on corporate governance and the sustainable development agenda. She has nearly 20 years of extensive experience on the boards of large public and private companies as well as international organisations such as the UN WFP, UNAIDS, among others. She currently serves as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of mBank S.A. and Chairman of the Remuneration and Nomination Committee. In addition, she is a member of the Risk Committee and the Audit Committee. She is a member of the Supervisory Board and Audit Committee of Pracuj.pl Group – Europe’s leading HR technology platform, as well as of Ghelamco Invest – the financial arm of one of the most prominent commercial real estate companies.

Her previous experience includes leadership roles in companies in business analytics, aerospace and defence (A&D), as well as infrastructure and construction, among others. She is a member of the EU Platform on Sustainable Finance, which advises the European Commission on the implementation of the sustainable development agenda, as well as the Programme Board of the Sustainable Investment Forum Poland (POLSIF).

Agnieszka Słomka- Gołębiowska is a professor at the Warsaw School of Economics focusing her research interests on corporate governance and sustainable development. She holds a Ph.D. in economics and obtained her master’s degree in Finance and Banking from the Warsaw School of Economics with distinction. She also completed a master’s degree in International Business at Copenhagen Business School. She is the recipient of prestigious awards, including the Alexander von Humboldt Scholarship at the University of Muenster and the Polish-American Fulbright Scholarship at the University of California, Berkeley, where she worked with Professor Olivier Williamson – Nobel Laureate in Economics. She is the author of numerous articles in JCR journals, books and a speaker at business and economics conferences. In 2019, she was awarded the Corporate Governance Personality Award.

She is a mentor at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin and a global ambassador of the Vital Voices Programme for women’s entrepreneurship and empowerment.

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.

He has been associated with Banking for over 20 years. Since 2011, Credit Agricole Bank Polska S.A. has successfully carried out a number of projects for the transformation of distribution channels and IT systems, also in the Agile methodology. Fan of mountains, sailing and skis – faithful to her passions related to active recreation. I’m motivated by change and transformation, which is a challenge in this world, and my mission is to build successful teams.

CEO and co-founder of e-point SA. Involved in the development of the Polish Internet and IT market for over 20 years. Experienced in digital transformation projects for the financial industry (e.g. ING Group, Santander Bank, PZU), e-commerce (e.g. Amway Europe, Inter Cars) and the public sector. Involved in the development of a number of technology products for e-point SA and its group companies.