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.

Joao Bras Jorge, 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 19 July 2006 – Member of the Management Board of Bank Millennium S.A., in the years 2006-2008 Head of the Retail Banking Division and from 2009 – Head of the Corporate Banking Area. From 22 April 2010 – Deputy Chairman of the Management Board and since 24 October 2013 – Chairman of the Management Board of Bank Millennium S.A.

Wojciech Ciesielski is responsible for selling Fortinet solutions to customers in the financial sector.
For twenty years he has been involved in the IT industry as a software developer and producer, solution provider, and above all as a sales manager to corporate clients. As part of his work for Hewlett-Packard Poland, he worked with customers in the telecommunications sector. In recent years, he was associated with Symantec and Veritas, managing sales of cyber security and data management solutions to a number of corporate clients, mainly in the financial sector.
He graduated from the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics at the Gdansk University of Technology. He completed the Executive MBA program at the Leon Kozminski Academy in Warsaw.
He is passionate about new trends in information technology, not only from a technical perspective, but from a regulatory, economic and social challenge perspective. He loves exploring the world, running, skiing and fly fishing.

From 10 September 2018 he held the position of the Vice President of the Management Board (International Assets) in KGHM Polska Miedź S.A.

Graduate of the Warsaw University, Faculty of Law and Administration.

An Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Finance since November 2016. Co-author of the tax reform. An Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of the State Treasury from April to November 2016. He managed a portfolio of companies with State Treasury ownership and state legal entities. He worked on reforming supervision over State Treasury companies. An expert and a management board member of Fundacja Republikańska (Republican Foundation) from 2007 to 2016. As a representative of the minister responsible for financial institutions he was also a member of the Polish Financial Supervision Authority.

He was a partner and a management board member of MMR Consulting sp. z o.o., as well as a partner in the tax consultant office GWW Tax from 2007 to 2016. He worked in the Artur Andersen and Ernst & Young consultancy companies from 2000 to 2006. He managed interdisciplinary consultant projects for Polish and international companies from the industrial and financial sector.

Author and co-author of numerous publications on taxes and social secur

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.

Professor Jerzy Hausner, PhD – Chairman of the Open Eyes Economy Summit Program Council, GAP Foundation
Professor of Economic Sciences, chairman of the Open Eyes Economy Summit Program Council and GAP Foundation Council, former deputy prime minister responsible for economic issues and minister of economy, labour and social policy, member of the Monetary Policy Council (2010-2016), member of the High Level Industrial Roundtable „Industry 2030”.

He graduated from the Warsaw Polytechnic in the area of two fields of study: Physics and Management. He gained his experience in the structures of the largest IT companies, including Toshiba, IBM and Tech Data. At Atende, Jakub Jagielak is responsible for the company’s development in the area of IT security and cooperation with market-leading suppliers, advising clients on the selection of the best-suited cybersecurity solutions.

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.

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.

Nicolas has 24 years’ experience in Innovation and R&D, both at big corporations and founding, funding and developing start-ups, in Europe and Silicon Valley. Nicolas lead multinational engineering teams, from upcoming trends and technologies to Business-applied Revenue-generating services. For the past few years, Nicolas has driven the Global R&D and Innovation at Worldline, leading teams to focus & find, evaluate, prioritize and drive to market reality all the disruptive technologies / usages, instilling innovation, igniting new services and increasing performances and efficiency in our portfolio. Nicolas joined Worldline 2009 and holds a SW/HW engineering degree from EFREI, backed up by a Start-up specialized MBA course from HEC in France. Nicolas also belongs to the Expert group of Worldline as Fellow.
Nicolas teaches Blockchain in prestigious schools like Columbia Edu, Polytechnique, Telecom ParisTech, Institut Mines-Telecom or HEC.

Since 1 January 2022, as a Member of the Management Board for HR at Nationale-Nederlanden, he has been leading the People & Culture team and supporting the organization in building an agile work culture, employee experience, as well as implementing the company’s strategy.
An expert in the field of HR with over 25 years of experience, which she has consistently built in international companies operating in various industries.
Before joining Nationale-Nederlanden, she worked for the Central and Eastern Europe region at Google Poland as a leader responsible for the human area.
In addition to her experience in the financial industry, she also held managerial positions for example in the Whirlpool Group and Bombardier Transportation, where she was the director of human resources for Poland and Russia. She was also responsible for HR at Lurgi and Foster Wheeler.
A graduate of the Upper Silesian School of Economics and Stanford University.

Adam Malinowski graduated from Management 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 program 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. In a period 2018-2019 was appointed as president of distribution committee in Polish Insurance Chamber.

Graduate of the Poznań University of Economics, Faculty of Economics. In 2008 Adam completed Executive MBA program at the Warsaw School of Economics. He gathered comprehensive banking knowledge and experience working in three institution. Adam started his career in WBK S.A. and then he was working for several years in Raiffeisen Bank in Back Office, Corporate Banking and Financial Markets. He moved to Warsaw in 2004 running two major projects in dealing room, being also responsible for one pillar of the strategy. As a member of The Operating Committee during financial crisis he was responsible for liquidity of the Bank. Awarded to TOP Performer and Leader of the Year. In 2012 Adam joined BRE Bank/ mBank where his first task was to restructure financial markets area. As a result employees motivation increased and the income grew significantly. Than he was promoted to the position of Managing Director. Additionally to his previous responsibilities, he integrated cooperation with financial institutions and later with Trading area. Tangible outcome of those activities was improvement of motivation and engagement of employees and dynamic growth of business. The governed area is well perceived by customers. From 26 October 2017 Vice-President of the Management Board of mBank S.A., Head of Corporate and Investment Banking.

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.

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.

Cezary Stypułkowski holds a Ph.D. in law from the University of Warsaw. In late 1980s, he studied at Columbia University Business School in New York as a member of the Fulbright Program. He chaired the management board of Bank Handlowy for thirteen years, made it the leader of corporate and investment banking at that time. In 2003 Cezary Stypułkowski was appointed as president of the management board of PZU Group. He successfully managed the organisation with his colleagues for three years. The net result and the valuation of the group trebled as a consequence. From 2006 to 2010 he worked for J.P Morgan in London, from 2007 as managing director of J.P. Morgan Investment Bank in Central and Eastern Europe. Since October 2010 Cezary Stypułkowski manages mBank. From 2012 Cezary Stypułkowski has been a joint chairman of the Emerging Markets Advisory Council of the IIF in Washington. He was also a member of the Deutsche Bank Board International Advisory Board, INSEAD International Advisory Board, a member of the board of the Institute of International Finance in Washington and the Geneva Association.

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.

For the last four years, the CEO of Kanga.Exchange – cryptocurrency exchange and the largest network of physical exchange points around the world. Investor and founder of several start-ups in the fin-tech, IT, and blockchain industries. Thanks to his over 15 years of experience in sales and IT, he effectively and efficiently manages nearly all key areas of said companies, including legal and marketing matters.