Speakers

Marat Azatjan, Senior Business Development Manager, Revolut

• Responsible for strategic partnerships at Uber
• Previously worked at Google and Sony PlayStation
• Alumnus of CEMS program at SGH and Bocconi University

Marat Azatjan joined Revolut in April 2019 as a business development manager. As part of his new role, he is responsible for the development of channels for the acquisition of commercial and strategic partners, as well as driving co-marketing activities.

Marat Azatjan has experience in the marketing of innovative products and services, as well as their development and growth. He combines knowledge and skills gathered while working for global leaders in the technology sector (Uber, Google) or consumer goods (Sony PlayStation).

In 2017-2018 he was responsible for the acquisition strategy of business partners at Uber, aimed at increasing the number of new app users and engagement of existing ones. Thanks to his efforts, Uber actively cooperated with such brands as VISA or Red Bull.

Before starting the CEMS program at the Bocconi University in Milan, he worked at Sony PlayStation, where he was responsible for the development of digital services such as PlayStation Plus, digital distribution sales strategy and digital marketing.

His biggest passions are technological innovation, automotive and backpack travelling.

Artur Bilski – attorney-at-law, Head of Legal (Corporate & Investment Banking) at Alior Bank S.A. and research fellow at the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw. Prior to joinng Alior Bank he worked as General Counsel for Ramp Network, leading Polish blockchain & payment services company. Previously he worked for international law firms (Clifford Chance, Hogan Lovells) and in the banking sector (ING, PKO BP). Author of articles concerning financial law, including Chambers Global Practice Guide on Securitisation of Financial Assets (Poland 2018).

From 1992, he was associated with the banking sector. He worked, among others at Bank Własności Pracowniczej S.A., PKO Bank Polski S.A., Nordea Bank Polska S.A., where he was the branch director, deputy director of the center branch, regional director, director of the restructuring and debt recovery department. In the years 2002–2003, President of the Management Board of Inwestycje Kapitałowe S.A. (a subsidiary of Nordea Bank Polska S.A.).
>From 2013, the First Executive Vice President at Bank Rumia Spółdzielczy, currently acting as President of the Board. A graduate of the University of Gdańsk and postgraduate studies at the Gdańsk University of Technology. He completed many specialist training in management, banking and finance.

Graduate of the Management Studies at Universidade Catolica Portuguesa and PADE Advance Management Programme under AESE.
He started his professional career as stockbroker in 1990. In the ensuing 10 years he worked in investment banking, inter alia, as Member of the Management Board at an investment bank. He also sat on the Board of the Lisbon Stock Exchange.
During 5 years, prior to his move to Poland, he held position of Head of the Retail Banking Customer Division and Coordinator of the Retail Network at Millennium bcp.
Since July 19 2006 – Member of the Management Board of Bank Millennium S.A., in the years 2006-2008 Head of the Retail Banking Division and since 2009 – Head of the Corporate Banking Area. Since April 22 2010 – Deputy Chairman of the Management Board and since October 24 2013 – Chairman of the Management Board of Bank Millennium S.A.

He studied economics and banking at universities in Poland and received his degree in management from Kingston University in London.
He is a leader and innovator with a wealth of professional accomplishments in the insurance sector, including Europe and Asia Pacific.
Adam Brzozowski’s experience includes working for international corporations, consulting firms and the startup community. He headed up the operations and technology division at Octo Telematics, a firm specializing in technology and data analytics. He was also responsible for implementing personalized insurance products for Insurethebox. He subsequently established his own consulting firm specializing in innovations and digitalization of the insurance sector.
In 2016 he moved to Singapore where he took on the role of InsurTech Leader at EY in the Asia Pacific Region. In the projects he ran there he devised innovative concepts for products utilizing new business models and digital technologies.
He was responsible for developing and implementing digital strategies and digital insurance products in cooperation with firms such as Allianz Insurance and Zurich Insurance; he also supported the launch of personalized insurance products for Coverbox, Marmalade and BMWi3.

For 20 years associated with the financial market. Recently, she was an advisor to the President of the National Bank of Poland and a member of the Supervisory Board of Bank Ochrony Środowiska.
Awarded the honorary badge “For merit to the banking of the Republic of Poland”.

In the years 2006-2008 she was the Deputy Chairman of the Polish Financial Supervision Authority. Earlier, as the proxy of the Prime Minister, she was involved in the creation of the Office of the Polish Financial Supervision Authority, which was formed from the merger of the Insurance and Pension Supervision Commission and the Securities and Stock Exchange Commission. She also acted as Deputy Chairman of the Insurance and Pension Funds Supervision Commission and Director of the Financial Institutions Department at the Ministry of Finance. She also worked as an advisor in the Strategic Management Department of the National Bank of Poland.

From 1998 to 2005, as a department director, she created and meanaged solutions in the area of the III pillar of the pension system at the Office for Pension Funds Supervision, and then at the Office of the Insurance and Pension Funds Supervision Committee she supervised the insurance intermediaries market. Previously, she was dealing with public debt issues at the Ministry of Finance and was associated with the Office of the European Integration Committee.

She performed various functions in financial market institutions, i.a. as deputy chairman of the Supervisory Board of Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego, member of the Supervisory Board of the National Securities Depository, deputy member of the Payment System Board at the National Bank of Poland and a member of the Supervisory Board of PTE PZU S.A.
She is an economist by profession. A graduate of the Warsaw School of Economics and the National School of Public Administration. She also completed a study for an Investment Advisor – Securities Analyst at the International School of Management at the Kozminski University. Author of expert publications on the financial market and the pension system. She completed a number of professional internships in the USA and in central and government level administration bodies in Germany.

Geoff has over 20 years’ experience in the IT industry, 15 of which have been at Veritas (and Symantec). Geoff’s long service with the company has given him remarkable insight into an industry that continues to evolve at an ever-accelerating pace.

Geoff excels at building very strong customer and partner relationships (along with very strong teams), a vital skill that he brings to his current role of enabling everyone to collectively seize the opportunity presented by technologies such as cloud and information management.
Geoff has worked his way through the ranks from individual contributor, to District Manager, to Director and Senior Director. His roles within the company have ranged from Head of Channel, Head of Enterprise Sales, Head of Backup Appliances and Head of Sales Enablement across EMEA.
Prior to joining Veritas in 2004, Geoff held various roles within other leading IT/software companies, including Rank Xerox, Commvault and Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC).
Geoff has a passion for photography, football, golf, good food and wine.

Since 2016, CEO of D.A.S. Towarzystwo Ubezpieczeń Ochrony Prawnej S.A.
From 2012 to 2016, he held the position of CEO of Towarzystwo Ubezpieczeń Euler Hermes S.A. and CEO of Euler Hermes Services Sp. z o.o. Previously, he worked as Managing Director with Towarzystwo Ubezpieczeń i Reasekuracji Warta S.A., one of the largest insurance companies in Poland. He is highly qualified in management, planning and business strategy development. He graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw with an MA degree in law. In 2002, he completed postgraduate Management Studies at the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH).

Co-founder of The Heart, responsible for business development and strategic partnerships. Working with biggest multinational companies like Mastercard, AccorHotels, Alior Bank, PKO Bank Polski and more, on many different markets: Poland, Germany, UK, Israel. Mentor for acceleration programs such as Mind The Bridge, Alfa Ac, Starter. Expert in bringing corporations and startups together for joint business development. Named as an Influencer by MIT “Innovators Under 35”.

The PKO Bank Polski Management Board President since October 2009, with appointment for a new term in 2011. Prior to this he was the Pioneer Pekao TFI S.A. Management Board President for nearly nine years. Also, within the global structure of Pioneer Investments he was responsible for the CEE region distribution. In the late 1990s he was, among others, active in establishing PKO/Credit Suisse TFI S.A. investment funds company, in the function of its first Vice-President. In his more than ten-year long career in the financial markets he can be credited, among other things, with:

Successfully steering PKO Bank Polski through the critical period of turmoil in the international financial markets, while strengthening the Bank’s position of leadership in terms of assets, equity funds and earnings in Poland and the CEE region;
Development and implementation of the PKO Bank Polski’s strategy for the years 2010-2012, which resulted in strong efficiency gains as measured in terms of ROE, ROA and C/I ratio as well as in increased interest in the company among domestic and international investors (PKO continues to lead the market in terms of the value of its free float and as a major corporate debt issuer );
Adjustment of PKO Bank Polski to the requirements of the ever more competitive financial market through increased attractiveness of its product offer and quality of its customer service;
Refocusing of the PKO Bank Polski Group’s operational model toward its core activity of providing financial services.
Zbigniew Jagiełło is actively involved in development and promotion of the most demanding financial market standards in Poland. He is a member of the Council of the Polish Bank Association and of the prestigious Institut International D’Etudes Bancaires, which brings together the international banking community. His previous functions included, among others, that of the Chairman of the Chamber of Fund and Asset Management. A graduate of the Wrocław Technical University, School of Computer Science and Management, he also completed Postgraduate Management Studies at the Gdańsk Foundation for Management Development and the University of Gdańsk, with Executive MBA certified by the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. The President of the Republic of Poland decorated him with the Officer’s Cross of the Order of the Rebirth of Poland and he was awarded the Social Solidarity Medal for promoting the idea of ​​corporate social responsibility. His is the Deputy Chairman of the Programme Council of the PKO Bank Polski Foundation, an entity formed at his initiative in the year 2010. Chosen the CEO of the Year 2011 by Parkiet daily; the recipient of the Wektor 2011 granted by the Polish Employers’ Chapter and of the Golden Banker in the Personality of the Year 2011 category; he was also lauded the Manager of the Year 2011 in a competition ran by Gazeta Bankowa. In the year 2012, Bloomberg Businessweek Polska singled him out as one of the Top 20 Managers in Crisis. In 2013 Zbigniew Jagiello was honoured by Bank monthly with the title of “The Innovator of Banking Sector 2012”, and received the title of “Visionary and Man of the Year” from Brief monthly and Dziennik Gazeta Prawna daily in appreciation of his contribution to financial sector development, his consistency in strengthening Bank`s position of market leadership and determination in changing its image.

Jerzy Kalinowski is adviser to the board of KPMG in Poland. Earlier, he was partner in KPMG Management Consulting responsible for Technology, Media, and Telecommunications sector in Poland, and Central & Eastern Europe. Prior to joining KPMG he held various C-level positions in companies primarily from TMT sector. Jerzy’s experience includes also setup and management of the venture capital fund investing into digital startups.

Attorney-at-law, graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw.
His entire professional career is related to the insurance market. After completing judge`s legal training at the Provincial Court of Warsaw and legal adviser’s training, he worked for three years in the National Insurance Supervision Office. In 1999, as an attorney-at-law he joined Allianz Poland. Following this, he successively took up positions of: legal advisors team coordinator, manager and head of legal department. In 2015 he was appointed Vice-president of the Management Board and Chief Operating Officer at Allianz Poland.
His professional interests focus on civil liability insurance. In addition he is Chairman of the Civil Liability Insurance Subcommittee at Polish Chamber of Insurance, representing Poland in the Civil Responsibility Committee of Insurance Europe.

Dr Krzysztof Korus is an attorney with a doctorate in law, and an economist. He is an expert on payment services, new technologies law, and banking law. Every year since 2015, he has been listed as a recommended lawyer in Chambers Europe in the Banking & Finance category (“strong experience in banking regulatory matters”, “deep knowledge and long experience”). He is a pioneer in advising on regulatory issues for the fintech sector in Poland. Among the issues he has advised on are implementation of PSD2 and opening banking, and he has advised on several dozen cases before financial market regulators in Poland and in Europe, on M&A deals on the fintech market, and on court litigation and arbitration cases between financial institutions. He has worked in the most important industry working groups for the fintech sector, such as the EC’s API Evaluation Group, the Polish API team, the fintech innovation development working group for the Polish Financial Supervision Authority, the Ministry for Digital Affairs “Blockchain and cryptocurrency” stream in the scheme “From a Paper to a Digital Poland”, and the Financial Market Development Council working group for implementation of the PSD. He co-authored the “Study Impact of the PSD” and “Principles, Definitions and Model Rules of European Private Law” for the European Commission, and sat on the programming council for the monthly “Banking Law Monitor”. He is a member of the European Payments Consulting Association, and has worked with the Polish-German Banking Law Centre and London Economics. He has written several dozen publications, legal analyses, and commentaries and spoken at numerous industry events in Poland, Europe, the US, and Asia. He is involved in legislative work at the Polish and EU level.

Krzysztof Nowak is a country head and consultant in Mercer Poland. Mercer has employed team of more that 60 consultants at the moment. Krzysztof has been working for Mercer since 1999. Prior to Mercer, he worked for few Polish and multinational organisations, mainly in banking sector.

Krzysztof has over 18 years of experience in many investment and benefits areas. He is an expert in risk, health care and pension benefits. Among the projects lead or co-ordinated by him there have been: advice in the area of establishing company pension & savings plans for several Polish and multinational companies and advice and project management of establishing company pension funds and advice while establishing investment strategies (asset allocation ranges, exposure to foreign assets, performance benchmarks etc.).

Krzysztof graduated from University of Economics in Poznań – MA degree in Finance. He passed securities broker exam (professional license) in 1992 and insurance broker exam (professional license) in 1997.

Sławomir Łopalewski
graduated from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Warsaw School of Economics and IESE Business School University of Navarra/AMP. He has also studied at the Academy of Economics in Poznań. He completed management courses at Harvard Business School and the Kellogg School of Management (US). Joined PKO Życie Towarzystwo Ubezpieczeń S.A. (previously Nordea Polska Towarzystwo Ubezpieczeń na Życie S.A.) in 2008 – shortly as a consultant to the board, then became Nordea Polska TUnŻ S.A. board member responsible for sales.
Since 2010 he has been holding the position of CEO at the life insurance company. Since the establishment of wealth insurance company (March 10, 2015) he has become CEO of PKO Towarzystwo Ubezpieczeń S.A. He has many years of professional experience in consulting. He was involved mainly with an international consulting company Deloitte Advisory, where as a manager he provided strategic consulting services to companies in the financial sector.

Graduate of Polish philology at the University of Warsaw. Associated with the PZU Group since 2016. As a director, she supervised prevention and sponsoring activities at PZU and PZU Życie SA. In 2010-2016, she coordinated and managed publishing and film production projects. In 2008-2010, she served as deputy director and director of Channel 1 of Telewizja Polska SA. Earlier, in 2007, she headed TVP1’s News program. For many years, a journalist working for Tygodnik Solidarność, Wprost and Radio Free Europe. During martial law in Poland, she was associated with the underground publishing house “Wola”.

Mirosław Maj (Cybersecurity Foundation, Open CSIRT Foundation, ComCERT.PL)
Over 20 years of experience in ICT security. Founder and president of the Cybersecurity Foundation, CEO of the ComCERT company, a former leader of CERT Polska team. In 2017-2018 he was the adviser to the Minister of National Defence of Poland on planning cyberdefence capabilities and building organizational structures and establishing international cooperation in the field of cyberdefence. Initiator of Polish Civic Cyberdefence organization. Co-founder of Open CSIRT Foundation – the stewardship organisation for SIM3 model and co-provider of Trusted Introducer service for CSIRTs, including processing of CSIRT formal certifications. Lecturer of cybersecurity courses on few universities.
European Network Information Security Agency expert and co-author of many ENISA publications including CERT exercises and papers on improvement CSIRT maturity. He organised 10 editions of cyber exercises (Cyber-EXE™) in several countries for most essential sectors (e.g energy, banking, telecommunication). Speaker on many international conferences including the FIRST conferences. He is also the originator and organiser Security Case Study conference, one of the largest cybersecurity event in Poland.

Adam Malinowski graduated from Managment faculty of University of Warsaw as well as MBA studies from University AUBG in Sofia. He also studied on Physics faculty and went through Top Talent Training Programme, the international programme for Generali Group’s Managers. He has got an extensive experience in sales management in financial sector, implementing restructuring programs, process digitalization, such as sales portals and development of own sales network. He was leading sales of non-life, life and health. Currently he is MB Vice-president responsible for Sales and Marketing in Signal Iduna Poland. Earlier he was part of Management Board team in Generali Poland, dealing with multiagents, own network and call center. In a period of 2014-2016 he was acting as Business Development Department Director in PZU. Earlier he was involved with Generali Group fulfilling managerial functions in Poland and abroad. He started his career in banking sector.

A graduate of the Silesian University of Technology at the Faculty of Computer Science and Computer Technologies and postgraduate studies in “Information Technology” at SGH. Director of the Application Development Department at Bank Millennium. He is responsible for developing the architecture of business applications and implementing new solutions and innovations, among others in the area of online and mobile banking.

Rafal Mosionek graduated from SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Vienna University Executive Academy i Minnesota University – Carlson School of Management. He was connected to Compensa in years 2003-2004 managing finance and accounting department. Next, in years 2004-2013 he was gaining experience in management positions in financial departments of Commercial Union and Aviva. Since 2013 he has been responsible for the finance area in the Management Board of Omniasig Vienna Insurance Group in Romania. Within the new division of competences, since 2016 Mr. Rafa? Mosionek takes responsibility for the Risk Management Division and IT Division in the life and non-life company and additionally for the claims handling division in the non-life company for Compensa / Vienna Insurance Group.

Since September 1998 he has been working at the PKO Bank Polski. Since 2011 Vice President of the Management Board in charge of Retail Market in PKO Bank Polski. He serves as a member of the Supervisory Board in: PKO Bank Hipoteczny SA, PKO TFI SA, Grupa Azoty SA. Since 2013 – Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of KREDOBANK SA. He was also the Chairman of the Bank’s Credit Committee, Member of the Board of Directors of VISA EUROPE and was responsible for the Inteligo acquisition transaction. Since 2007 he was the President of the Management Board of Dominet Bank SA and for 2009 to 2011, after merger, in BNP Paribas/Fortis Bank Polska SA he held the position of Vice President of the Management Board responsible for the Division of Servicing Small Enterprises and Individual Clients. He graduated from the Pedagogical University in Olsztyn and the University of Navara IESE – AMP.

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.

James Pomeroy is a global economist at HSBC. He joined the Economics team in 2013 and much of his work focuses on longer-term trends and themes, and the impact that they have on the economy and policy decisions today. Much of his work is focused on demographic data and trends, which extends to consumer trends, urbanisation and technology adoption.

Krzysztof Radziwon, KPMG Partner with Risk Consulting practice. Krzysztof has over 17 years of diverse public accounting, internal auditing, information systems auditing and risk management experience. Currently Krzysztof is responsible for the Risk Management Services including information systems control and cybersecurity, enterprise risk management system design and implementation, systems compliance, internal control systems design and assessment as well as continuous auditing service lines. For the past 15 years he has been heavily involved in reviews and design of internal control environment including business and IT processes. Sector experience includes telecommunication, banking, insurance, industrial and consumer markets. Krzysztof holds designations from Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA), ISACA (Certified in Risk and Information Systems Controls, Certified Information Systems Auditor).

Tomasz Sękalski – banking and fintech expert with a wide knowledge of legal and financial issues. Earlier he has worked as a CEO of Idea Money, Polkomtel Business Development, and Country Director of Lidya, a global fintech offering financing to small and medium enterprises.
Graduate of Law department at Łódź University, he has also finished postgraduate studies at Warsaw School of Economics in the field of Bank Management. He is qualified by the Ministry of State Treasury to sit in the Supervisory Boards of the state-run companies. Privately: husband, father, and Harley Davidson owner.

Leszek Skiba specializes in macroeconomics. He graduated from Warsaw School of Economics (SGH) majoring in international economic and political relations (2002). Then, until 2009 he was a research scientist at the School of Business – National Louis University. From 2009 to November 2015 Mr. Skiba was employed at the National Bank of Poland (NBP), initially in the Bureau for the Integration with the Euro Area, and from 2011 at the Economic Institute, where he was in charge of the analysis of the economic situation in the Euro zone, the functioning of Economic and Monetary Union and the preparation of macroeconomic projections for the Euro area that contributed to NECMOD model. Mr Skiba is the co-author of, among others, the last Euro area report of NBP Economic challenges of Polish integration with the Euro area. Since 2009 he has cooperated with the Sobieski Institute first as an expert, then a board member and since 2013 Chairman of the supervisory board of the Institute. He is the author and co-author of reports on the political economy concerning the decision-making center of government in modern European countries as well as on the structural reforms to support growth of the Polish economy. Leszek Skiba collects historical atlases from different European countries. He is married and has two children.

Mr. Skiba has over 25 years of professional experience on Polish banking market. In 1992 he started working in BZ WBK S.A., where he held different managerial positions. He was the Branch Director, the Director for the Region of North Greater Poland and the Director for the Macro-regions of Poznan (since 2002) and Warsaw (since 2008). In 2008 he was appointed at the position of the Vice-President of the Management Board of BZ WBK S.A.
Mr. Skiba graduated from Poznan University of Technology and perfected his studies as a postgraduate at Poznan University of Economics, Poznan University of Science as well as Swiss Finance Institute. In addition, he finished numerous specialized trainings and studies concerning banking, finances and management.

Ms. Barbara Sobala assumed the position of Vice President of the Management Board of Bank Handlowy w Warszawie S.A. on October 15, 2013.

Ms. Barbara Sobala has a university degree. She graduated from the Cracow University of Economics. She has extensive (over twenty years) experience in banking, especially in risk management and corporate restructuring.

She joined Bank Handlowy in 2005 as Head of IRM. Since 2012 she has been the Head of Risk for the Institutional and Corporate Bank. She is the Chairperson of the Risk and Capital Management Committee, Vice Chairperson of the Equity Investments Committee and a member of the Assets and Liabilities Management Committee (ALCO) in the Bank.

Before joining Bank Handlowy’s team, she served 13 years for Bank BPH where she held various roles including Head of the Restructuring Department Head. She was also a member of the Bank’s Credit Committee.

Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in Poland.  
For over 20 years Lucyna is working in banking sector, initially for commercial banks -Credit Lyonnaise  and ABN AMRO Bank, and  for the past 13 years at the EBRD. During her career Lucyna worked for Corporate Banking, Corporate Finance and Structured Finance.  At the EBRD she initially worked as Senior Banker responsible for EBRD investments in energy and infrastructure sectors. For the past 6 years – Lucyna acts as a Director of EBRD in Poland, oversees Bank’s projects in the finance sector, private equity and corporates. She is also responsible for managing EBRD’s portfolio in Poland (of approx. EUR 3 billion).
Graduate of Warsaw School of Economics and Advanced Post-Graduate Studies at the College of Europe, Belgium.

Rafal Stankiewicz is the Vice-President of the Executive Board of Warta SA, supervising Claims and Operations Divisions. He joined the company in 2011. Previously he worked for 13 years at PZU SA. During his career he has been responsible for several successful projects connected with effciency growth and innovations in claims handling.

Szymon Wałach, Managing Director, Strategy & Digital Transformation Division, Retail Client Division, PKO Bank Polski
Since 2010 with PKO Bank Polski with initial assignment as Advisor to CEO, then since 2011 holding the position of Retail Client Division Managing Director with responsibilities for products portfolio and customers segments management within the retail area of the Bank. Head of Strategy & Digital Transformation Division. He also holds the positions of the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Polski Standard Płatności and Member of the Supervisory Board of eService.

His professional career started in 2000 with Salomon Smith Barney in New York. It was continued in Warsaw office of The Boston Consulting Group (2002-2004) as well as in Pekao SA (2004-2010). Graduate of Montclair State University in New Jersey, faculty Finance.

– Chief Economist of the Social Insurance Institutions from 2014. I the years 2006-2014 minister of finance, deputy foreign minister, ambassador of Poland to the OECD, CEO of Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency. From 1995 to 2005 CEO of PTE Allianz Polska S.A., and earlier CEO of TFI Atut S.A. and director at the Polish Development Bank S.A. During his stay in the U.S. from 1983 to 1990, he majored in economics at John Carroll University, a after did his masters and doctoral studies at Case Western Reserve University. In 1995 he received a Ph.D. from Institute of Systems Research of Polish Academy of Science. He lectured at Harvard, John Carroll and Koźmiński universities.

A graduate of the University of Silesia, Faculty of Social Sciences and the direction of Health Insurance at the University of Economics in Katowice. In the years 1999 – 2016 he worked in the financial and insurance industry, a. o. for Amplico AIG Life, ING, Pramerica, Signal Iduna, managing sales areas and specializing in the development of insurance products. Since starting work on the Employee Capital Plans project, he is a member of the inter-ministerial team that develops the assumptions of the Program. As a representative of the project team, he analyzed and consulted foreign solutions of employee savings plans.

He started his adventure with finances in the banking sector and more precisely in Getin Noble Bank and Nordea Bank, where he dealt with the sales network and the loan offer. Afterwards, he worked at TU Europa, where he was responsible for the cooperation of the insurer with the non-banking loan industry. He’s the co-founder of the pozyczkaportal.pl and Loando.pl website as well as Co-Founder of the LOANDO Group. Tymon Zastrzeżyński is actively involved in all initiatives aimed at dynamic development and integration of the fintech sector in Poland. He regularly speaks in the Polish press and radio, giving expert comments on current events on the Polish and global financial markets. Privately, he is passionate about football and the stock exchange. He’s got a stockbroker’s license.

Natalia Załęcka has extensive marketing knowledge that she has gained over 16 years of experience. She worked both on business side and consulting side of projects. She managed entire purchase funnel from building brand awareness to delivering e-commerce sales.
As a Marketing & Digital Channels Director in Getin Noble Bank she carried out all kinds of marketing campaigns: ATL, BTL, digital, social. She was also responsible for delivering digital sales and as a business owner of self-service channels she was a leader of digital transformation.
Nowadays she is a CMO Advisory Leader in Deloitte Digital and uses her marketing experience to help companies overcome their business challenges by client centric approach and mar-tech tools understanding.