Speakers

She is a graduate of the Jagiellonian University specializing in Economic Sociology and Market Research as well as Columbia University in the field of company strategy. She also completed the Executive MBA at the Leon Koźmiński Academy. Previously related to the private financial sector, she then worked for ING group companies. She also cooperated with the team of the Public Policy Evaluation and Analysis Center at the Jagiellonian University. Later she worked for HDI (currently Warta S.A.), and Sony Europe. At Philips S.A. she managed the Marketing and Business Intelligence team in 17 countries of the region. From 2016 in the Management Board of PZU Życie SA, first as a member of the Management Board, and from March 2020 as the acting President of the Board.

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.

Grzegorz Ignaciuk has 20 years of experience in the financial market.
He graduated from Warsaw School of Economics – major Quantitative Methods & Information Systems and Finance & Banking, and finished postgraduate studies in Bank Controlling.
>From November 2019, he is Deputy Chairman of the Management Board at Cenatorium, responsible for sales, business development, as well as finance and administration.
Previous, since 2014, he leads independent advisory projects and he has created a credit broker serving individual clients, entrepreneurs and enterprises. In 2006-2013, Grzegorz Ignaciuk was responsible for supervised retail credit portfolio risk management at PKO Bank Polski. He has extensive experience in building models and systems to assess clients’ creditworthiness.
He managed interdisciplinary project teams, which resulted in the implementation of 50+ pro-business, pro-efficiency and credit risk mitigation-related projects. He was also responsible for creation of applications which support credit-related business processes for individual customers and SMEs.
He has also been involved in several due diligence studies and strategy development.
He held the position of Secretary of the Supervisory Board of the Credit Bureau.

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.

Manager with many years experience in financial sector in Poland and later active in Fintech market. Started his career in 1995 in Raiffeisen Bank Polska as Director of Trade Finance Dept., later Director of Trade and Corporate in BRE Bank. From 2006 first Vice-president of ING Lease Polska and from 2008 CEO. For several year Fund member of ING for Children and ING Art Collection. Currently Managing Director of Cenatorium and Chairman of Supervisory Board of factoring Smeo.

Mariusz Wójcik is a member of the UNIQA Polska board responsible for bancassurance and partner programmes. He has been successfully developing this area for over a decade. First in AXA, and then in UNIQA after the merger of companies. He has been involved in the insurance industry for over 20 years. Previously, he worked at Dom Inwestycyjny Xelion and Nationale-Nederlanden insurance company. Mariusz is a graduate of the Cracow University of Economics.

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.

Graduated from the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Wrocław and Postgraduate Studies in Banking and Finance at Warsaw School of Economics. Since 1991 associated with the ZBP as Director of the Office and then Director General of the ZBP. Since April 2003 President of the chamber.
Member of the Bank Guarantee Fund, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Credit Information Bureau. Member of the National Centre for Research and Development. Member of the. President of “Promyk Słońca” Foundation. Vicepresident of “Teraz Polska” Chapter. Founder and co-founder of banking infrastructure enterprises and of Polish Institute of Directors.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Marek Zefirian is a graduate of Poznan University of Economics and Master of Business Administration at EAP Europäische Wirtschaftshochschule in Berlin. He speaks English, German and Russian. He has many years of consulting experience gained from working in the Ernst & Young Management Consulting team, mainly in market analysis, market strategies and market entry. Since 2003, he has been a CEO of Starter24, an international insurance services company, a part o the ARC Europe Group. In the years 2010-2014 he participated in the development project and later served as a member of the Supervisory Board in the Russian sister company RUAMC. He has built and manages a strong and growing insurance related organization. Starter24; being the leader of the Polish Assistance market it has almost 50% of the market share in the OEMs Assistance segment and more than 40% in the CFM Assistance segment. The Company diversifies its activities in complementary areas, including claims handling and Call Center services as well as being an industry leader in innovation and modern technology.