Wojciech Kostrzewa

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Person.png Wojciech Kostrzewa  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(businessman)
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BornOctober 18, 1960
NationalityPolish
Alma materUniversity of Warsaw, University of Kiel

Wojciech Kostrzewa is a Polish businessman and president of the Polish Business Roundtable (Polska Rada Biznesu), an organization of owners and key managers of the largest Polish companies and international enterprises operating in Poland.

Education

Wojciech Kostrzewa graduated from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Kiel in West Germany in 1987, when the Cold War was still ongoing.[How was this possible?]

He also studied law at the University of Warsaw in 1979–1981. In 1981, together with four other students from Austria, Hungary, and West Germany, he founded the European Law Students' Association (ELSA).[1] In 1984–1991, he worked as a graduate assistant at the University of Kiel and later became a researcher at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. He published several academic papers on economics and finance.[2]

Professional career

In 1989–1991, Wojciech Kostrzewa was an economic advisor to the Polish Finance Minister, Leszek Balcerowicz.[3]

In 1990–1995, he was the CEO of the Polish Development Bank (Polski Bank Rozwoju).[4][5] In 1996, he became deputy CEO, and in 1998 President and CEO of BRE Bank (today's mBank),[6] where he worked until 2004. In 2002–2004, he was also the regional director of Commerzbank, responsible for its operations in Central and Eastern Europe.[7] At that time, he was reported to be the only Pole who occupied a high managerial position at a foreign private bank.[8]

In 2005–2018, he was the President and CEO of ITI Group and long-term chairman of the supervisory board of TVN,[9][10] one of the biggest Polish private TV broadcasters in the period of his presidency.[11][12] He was also co-founder and co-owner of Quedex Bitcoin Derivatives Exchange[13] licensed by the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission (GFSC).[14]

In 2018–2024, he was CEO of the Polish-British fintech company Billon,[15] a FCA[16] and PFSA[17] registered e-money institution, which develops a technology to store and transfer regulated currencies and other data based on a proprietary blockchain. In 2024, he became the company's chairman.[18]

Other board postions

Wojciech Kostrzewa is also member of the board of directors of the Swiss railway rolling stock manufacturer Stadler Rail (since 2012),[19] member of supervisory boards of the Ergo Hestia insurance group's companies (since 2017),[20] owner and chairman of the Pascal Publishing House. In 2020–2023, he was member of the supervisory board of the Polish branch of Canal+.[21]

He was one of the founders and in 2004–2007 president of the German-Polish Chamber of Commerce and Industry.[22]

In 2007–2020, he was vice president of the Polish Confederation Lewiatan (Konfederacja Lewiatan), a Polish nationwide employers' organization, later he became a member of the General Council.[23]

In 2015, he was elected vice president, and in 2019 president of the Polish Business Roundtable (Polska Rada Biznesu), organization of owners and CEOs of largest companies in Poland.[24]


 

Events Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Bilderberg/20222 June 20225 June 2022US
Washington DC
Mandarin Oriental Hotel		The 68th Bilderberg Meeting, held in Washington DC, after an unprecedented two year hiatus during which a lot of the Bilderberg regulars were busy managing COVID-19
Bilderberg/202318 May 202321 May 2023Portugal
Lisbon
Pestana Palace Hotel		The 69th Bilderberg Meeting, held in Lisbon, with 128 guests on the official list. The earliest in the year since 2009.
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References

  1. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20170108095005/http://www.mtp.pl/all/pl/news/jubileusz_30-lecia_europejskiego_stowarzyszenia_studentow_prawa/
  2. ↑ Econstor
  3. ↑ JPRS Report: East Europe, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, May 1991, p. 7.
  4. ↑ Richard W. Stevenson (February 23, 1993), "Poles Forge Private Bank System". New York Times.
  5. ↑ Business and Economic Yearbook, The Warsaw Voice, 1999, p. 43.
  6. ↑ Nigel Holloway (October 2, 2000), "Let 3 Million Flowers Bloom". Forbes.
  7. ↑ The Europa World Year 2004, vol. I: International organizations. Countries: Afghanistan – Jordan, Europa Publications Taylor & Francis Group, 2004, p. 2043.
  8. ↑ https://www.bankier.pl/wiadomosc/Giving-media-the-Midas-touch-1243572.html
  9. ↑ https://www.bankier.pl/wiadomosc/TVN-SA-Powolanie-nowych-czlonkow-do-Rady-Nadzorczej-TVN-S-A-1288523.html
  10. ↑ https://www.marketscreener.com/TVN-SA-1413345/news/TVN-Appointment-of-the-Supervisory-Board-members-of-TVN-S-A-20533684/
  11. ↑ Ben Fenton, Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, and Jan Cienski (September 23, 2011), "Vivendi and Time Warner vie for Poland’s TVN". Financial Times.
  12. ↑ Nicole Levy (March 16, 2015), "Scripps Networks acquires majority stake in Polish broadcaster". Politico.
  13. ↑ http://quedex.net/about/
  14. ↑ https://www.gibraltar.gov.gi/press-releases/quedex-awarded-dlt-licence-by-gibraltar-financial-services-commission-5632019-5153%7Ctitle=Quedex Awarded DLT Licence by Gibraltar Financial Services Commission - 563/2019
  15. ↑ https://press.billongroup.com/45871-wojtek-kostrzewa-is-the-new-ceo-of-billon-group
  16. ↑ https://www.paymentsjournal.com/billon-is-the-first-polish-company-to-feature-on-fintech50/
  17. ↑ https://www.enterprisetimes.co.uk/2019/05/01/billon-licensed-to-operate-as-a-e-money-institution-in-eu/
  18. ↑ https://billongroup.com/blog/big-news-big-changes-new-ceo/
  19. ↑ https://www.stadlerrail.com/en/board-directors/
  20. ↑ https://media.ergohestia.pl/materialy-dla-mediow/zarzad-i-rada-nadzorcza
  21. ↑ https://www.press.pl/tresc/63692,byly-prezes-iti-w-radzie-nadzorczej-canal--polsk
  22. ↑ https://ahk.pl/deutsch-polnische-handelskammer-wird-25-jahre-alt
  23. ↑ http://konfederacjalewiatan.pl/o_nas/struktura-organizacji/rada_glowna
  24. ↑ https://prb.pl/wojciech-kostrzewa-elected-as-the-new-president-of-the-polish-business-roundtable/
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