7th Home Appliance Congress

VP Head of Consumer Electronics at Samsung

Vice President and Head of Consumer Electronics at Samsung Electronics Poland. He received his education in the USA and at the University of Warsaw. Prior to Samsung, he worked at companies such as Candy Hoover Group as head of marketing and product manager, at the Marketing House advertising agency he was responsible for account management and at Citibank Poland he worked in the sales department introducing credit cards to the Polish market. He has been with Samsung Electronics since 2008, where he started as a product manager. In 2018, he reached the position of VP, head of CE Division (household appliances, consumer electronics, memory and medical equipment). He considers his greatest success to be the successful expansion of sales of home appliances products on the Polish market and becoming a leader in this category, as well as building new product categories from CE's broad product portfolio. In his spare time, he enjoys cycling and reading industry and biographical books.

CEO of the National Chamber of Commerce

Born in Augustow, Poland. He graduated from the Faculty of Electronics at the Technical University of Budapest and the Faculty of Industrial Economics at the Warsaw School of Economics (SGPiS). He has also studied in the USA, Great Britain, Japan and Korea. In 1976-87 he was a sworn translator of the Hungarian language. In 1976-90 he worked in the electronics industry, including 1987-90 as General Director of Warsaw Television Company ELEMIS. In 1991-1993 he was a member of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland - a member of the Committee on Foreign Cooperation. At the beginning of the 1990s, he managed the EXPROM program for the promotion of Polish exports with PHARE funds. Since 1990 in the National Chamber of Commerce as Secretary General, since 2013 as Vice President - General Director. In 2021 he was appointed President of KIG. Since 2015 he is also Vice-President of the European Association of Chambers of Commerce EUROCHAMBRES in Brussels. He managed Poland's participation in the World EXPO 2000 in Hannover, was the General Commissioner of the Polish section of the World EXPO 2005 in Aichi, Japan, and managed many projects in Poland and abroad. In 2018, he was appointed by the President of the Republic of El Salvador as Honorary Consul of the Republic of El Salvador for the Mazovia region, based in Warsaw. He has given lectures and presentations in many countries of the world. He is the author of many expert opinions and publications on economics, marketing and advertising. For his activities he has received many awards and decorations, including the Commander's, Officer's and Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary and the Republic of Estonia, the Order of Grand Duke Gediminas of the Republic of Lithuania.

Head of the Department
of Waste Management
Ministry of Climate and Environment

Environmental Economist, Assistant Professor at the Warsaw School of Economics. Head of Postgraduate Studies in Waste Management at the Warsaw School of Economics. Specialist in municipal waste management reform. In 2010, he prepared an opinion for the Office of Parliamentary Analyses on the government bill amending the Act on Maintaining Cleanliness and Order in Municipalities and several other acts, commonly referred to as the "garbage revolution". Advised local government and trained municipal and municipal enterprise staff in the implementation of the reform. Trained more than 2,000 officials and employees of municipal companies. Collaborator and expert for the Union of Polish Cities and the Union of Rural Communes of Poland. Managed and consulted on municipal waste management in local government (PRGOK, Warsaw City Hall) and national government (Ministry of Climate and Environment). Member of the Program Board of the Institute of Circulation Economy. Member of the Supervisory Board of a municipal company.

CEO BSH Sprzęt Gospodarstwa Domowego Sp. z o.o., President of the APPLiA Polska

Konrad Pokutycki is the CEO of BSH in Poland, at BSH Sprzęt Gospodarstwa Domowego Sp. z o.o. A trained economist and graduate of Łódź University. Following his graduation, he lectured for several years in the Department of Accounting at his alma mater, as well as at a number of business schools and the Association of Accountants in Poland. He co-authored a Polish-German- English dictionary for accounting and banking terms. A consultant in financial management, tax consultancy, and information systems in consulting companies. In 2003, he was awarded the title of statutory expert auditor. Supervisory Board, and member of the Zelmer S.A. Supervisory Board. By virtue of a unanimous election, he served two terms of office between 2010 and 2014 - on a pro publico bono basis - as the President of APPLiA Polska - the European Association of Manufacturers of Household Appliances. In 2015, he was awarded the prestigious Vector 2014 award from the Employers of the Republic of Poland for his special contribution to the development of the industry of household appliance manufacturers, as well as for his innovative ideas and solutions that are consistently being implemented at BSH Sprzęt Gospodarstwa Domowego Sp. z o.o.

President of the Board
Lodz SEZ

In 2004 he graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Lodz. He worked in an advertising agency, then in the Marshal's Office of the Lodz Province. For one year he taught marketing at the Faculty of Economics and Sociology at the University of Lodz.
In the 2006 local elections, he won a seat as a member of the Łódź City Council on the Civic Platform list. After Włodzimierz Fisiak became Marshal of the Voivodeship, he was appointed Secretary of the Lodz Voivodeship.
After the dismissal of Jerzy Kropiwnicki in the local referendum in January 2010, Prime Minister Donald Tusk appointed him as the Mayor of Lodz in February of the same year. In the 2010 elections, he was again elected to the Lodz City Council, resigning as a commissioner on November 26 of the same year.
In 2011, he left the city council and took the position of chairman of the board of the Lodz Special Economic Zone, which he held until 2016. From January 2017 to January 2019, he was the chairman of the Municipal Enterprise of the Municipality of Konstantynów Łódzki. In November 2018, he became the acting director of the WAM University Clinical Hospital No. 2 in Lodz of the Central Veterans Hospital. In 2024 he was reappointed as the President of the Board of the Lodz SEZ.

President of the Management Board ElektroEko

President of ElektroEko Electronic Equipment Recovery Organization. Since 2006, Grzegorz Skrzypczak has served as President of ElektroEko Electronic Equipment Recovery Organization. Previously, he was Commercial Director at Fastrack (2000-2005) - a representative office of the British company Kenwood and the American company Remington. From 1991 to 1999 he was General Manager at Brabork - a representative office of Philips and Whirlpool. He was also an Economic Consultant for the Italian company Merloni Polska and the Greek company Klimatechniki. He is a graduate of Management at the University of Warsaw and a former student at the University of Michigan in the United States.

Managing Director
Daikin

Strategic and result-oriented business leader with experience in strategy, planning and operations. Skilled in developing and executing business plants to maximize profitability, streamline operations and maintain compliance with industry regulations. Proven people leader motivates and optimizes staff performance and productivity.

CEO AMICA

Joined the Company in 1995. In 1995-2003 he was a member/chairman of the supervisory board of "Amica joint-stock co". As President of the Management Board, he supervises the work of the Strategic and Business Development Department, the Public Relations Department and the Management Office. Mr. Jacek Rutkowski's responsibilities as the President of the Management Board include the day-to-day management and coordination of the work of the Management Board of Amica S.A., general supervision over the timeliness of the management of the affairs of the Management Board of Amica S.A. and the day-to-day assignment of tasks to the Management Board. as well as assigning day-to-day tasks to be performed by other members of the Management Board.

In addition, Mr. Jacek Rutkowski has held the position of Managing Director of Amica International GmbH, based in Ascheberg, Germany, within the Amica Group since 2004.

He graduated from the Poznan University of Economics (now: Poznan University of Economics) with a degree in Foreign Trade Economics.

Traveler, social-worker, motivational speaker.

He was born in December 1988. At the age of 13, he had a serious accident. He received an electric shock of 15 000 V voltage. As a result he lost his left shin and right forearm. Currently Jasiek walks on a prosthetic leg. In 2004 with Marek Kamiński he reached both the North Pole and the South Pole. Thereby he became the youngest and the only disabled person in the world who accomplished it. In 2008 with a group of disabled people he climbed “The roof of Africa “, Mount Kilimanjaro. In the very same year he made a decision to found his own foundation, which would help disabled people, in particular those affected by accidents – Foundation “Poza Horozyonty” (“Beyond the Horizons”). In 2009 Jasiek Mela reached Elbrus. Also in 2009 he ran the New York City Marathon. In 2010 he climbed El Capitan, spectacular climbing mountain in Yosemite, USA. Winner of many prestigious awards. Member of The Explorers Club. Since a few years motivational speaker for companies. In his free time he makes photos in abandoned buildings, sews on the sewing machine, walks on slackline and discovers treasures of far Siberia.

CEO Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa w Electrolux

Adam Cich started his work at Electrolux Poland in 1996 as sales director. In 2010, he became general manager for Poland. From 2014 to 2019, he was Electrolux's general manager for Central and Eastern Europe. Starting in August, he will manage sales in 45 countries in Asia, Africa and Australia. He graduated from the Universities of Gdansk and Warsaw and holds an MBA from the University of Illinois. President of the ESG Committee of the National Chamber of Commerce. Chairperson of the Ministry of Development and Technology Working Group on KIS 7. Closed loop economy. Member of the Ministry of Finance Working Group on Improving ESG Reporting among Polish Enterprises. Deputy Member of the FENG Monitoring Committee in the Ministry of Funds and Regional Policy.

CEO
Pro Progressio

Wiktor Doktór is a Polish entrepreneur, business activist and expert on outsourcing and shared service centres (SSC). He has been involved in the development of this sector in Poland for almost 20 years. Since 2012, he has been running Pro Progressio - an organisation supporting the development of the modern business services sector. As part of its activities, Pro Progressio conducts, among others, training courses, conferences and market research. Wiktor is also the publisher of the FOCUS ON Business media, which deals with the topics of outsourcing and SSC. He hosts the podcasts 'BSS bez tajemnic' and 'Good Morning BSS World', in which he talks to industry experts. Recognised expert on outsourcing and GBS, author of numerous publications and speeches at industry conferences.

Partner at Chudzik i Wspólnicy Law and Taxes Sp.k.

Graduate of the University of Łódź and the American Stetson University where she obtained her LL.M. degree, specialisation - International Law and Business. For over 15 years associated with legal services for the household appliances industry. Partner at Chudzik i Wspólnicy Law and Taxes Sp.k. On a daily basis, she develops and implements legal solutions for companies from the production, construction and development industry. She specialises mainly in preparing and negotiating contracts, handling construction and investment processes and preparing due diligence of real estate and companies. She has experience in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions and litigation.

President of the Employers of Poland

Rafal Dutkiewicz graduated from Wroclaw University of Technology, Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology, major - Applied Mathematics. He defended his Ph.D. thesis in formal logic (From research on Betha's method of semantic tables) at the Faculty of Christian Philosophy of the Catholic University of Lublin. Since the end of the 1970s, he has been associated with the democratic opposition. During martial law he was a Solidarity activist. In 1989 he became secretary of the Wroclaw Solidarity Civic Committee and in 1990 its chairman. He was a co-organizer of the first Weeks of Christian Culture in Wroclaw and the chairman of the Adam Mickiewicz Scholarship Society. In 2002, he became the first directly elected mayor of Wroclaw. He was in office for four consecutive terms until 2018. In April 2019, he was invited by the Bosch Foundation to the elite Richard von Weizsäcker Academy in Berlin. He was one of the few foreign guests to have the honor of speaking at the Bundestag on Remembrance Day, one of Germany's most important holidays. He is currently involved in several start-ups dealing with the latest trends in food production. He is a member of the Council of the University of Wroclaw, and for many years was a member and then honorary member of the Senate of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. He was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2009) and the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2015). In March 2023. Rafal Dutkiewicz took over the presidency of the Confederation of Polish Employers.

CEO of Terra Hexen, President of the Polish Chamber of Unmanned Systems.

CEO of Terra Hexen, a company associated with the international drone systems market, President of the Polish Chamber of Unmanned Systems. Co-founder of the Hutchinson Institute and ILS Lions Group. Entrepreneur, innovator and promoter of modern technologies. MBA graduate of Kozminski University, European Academy of Diplomacy and PhD student of the Technical University of Lodz at the Faculty of Management. He is a member of the Council of the Lodz Chamber of Industry and Commerce. Awarded the Bronze Cross of Merit by the President of the Republic of Poland. He received the award of the Minister of Development and Technology as a Leader in Management Capacity Development. Rotarian and community worker.

General Director, Member of the Board APPLiA Polska, Vice President of the Polish Chamber of Commerce

Graduated from SGPiS / SGH Warsaw School of Economics as a Master of Economics in 1991. After 20 years of working in household appliances industry, in 2004, he co-founded and has been leading as Director General a household appliances association, APPLiA Polska. Organization deals with the broadly understood representation of the industry. For 15 years he has been involved in management of the Polish Chamber of Commerce, KIG and has been appointed as the vice-president in 2017. He is the chairman of the Technical Committee for electrical consumer equipment of the Polish Committee for Standardization, member of the Board of Officers of CENELEC, an European standardization organization. He is the chairman of the supervisory board of the recovery organization ElektroEko SA.In publications, he specializes mainly in energy efficiency, electrorecycling, and market trends.

President of the Lewiatan Confederation

President of the Lewiatan Confederation, the largest organization of entrepreneurs in Poland. Vice-President of the organization from 2006 to 2019. He graduated from the Poznan University of Technology and completed his postgraduate studies in France, at the Ecole Central Paris. He specialized in the field of research operational research and decision support. He worked for Cetelem Polska Bank (Paribas Group), first in France and then in Poland. From October 2001, he was a member of the Board of Directors of Lukas Bank (Crédit Agricole Group), of which he became Chairman in 2005. In 2006, he joined the Orange Group: from 2006 to 2013, he was Chairman of the Board of Directors and on September 19, 2013, he became Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Orange Polska. From January 2016 to February 2019, he was President of the Management Board of Work Service S.A. He is a member of the Supervisory Boards of TISE and Krynica Vitamin. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Atlantic Council, a member of the Board of Directors of the Prof. B. Geremek Center Foundation, a member of the Board of Directors of the European Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the International Advisory Board of GLOBSEC.

Managing Director
Lions Group

As Managing Director of Lions Group, she is responsible for the development, strategy and effectiveness of the three brands' teams: Hutchinson Institute, ILS Translations, ILS Creation. Graduate of German Philology at the University of Łódź and MBA from the Faculty of Management at the University of Łódź. Graduated from Master of Business English, Total Service Management at Kaizen Institute, ISO 9001. Co-creator of the HRO™ Human-Relation-Organisation philosophy. Co-organiser of the HR Genius by Hutchinson Institute and the Growing Circle HRO™ community. She has been awarded the title of Business Tiger three times by Pro Progressio. She is a member of the Programme Council for the management faculty at the Akademia Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna. Privately, a fan of sport and good cinema and a fulfilled mother and wife.

Managing director
representative of the Management Board
Smart Work Employment Agency

Daniel Lechniuk is a managing director and a representative of the Management Board in the Smart Work Employment Agency. Daniel Lechniuk is an IT specialist by education, but his whole professional life is associated with the sale of investment products and services. He is a member of the Polish-Czech Chamber of Commerce and the Chairman of the Audit Committee in the Foundation of Polish-Ukrainian Initiatives “Future”.

Programme director
Hutchinson Institute

Programme director at the Hutchinson Institute, PhD in social sciences, certified consultant, trainer and coach. Experienced interim & project manager. As he says about his work, he specialises in building connections between heart and mind in business. He has coordinated projects at Philips Lighting, Indesit and Whirlpool. At the Toyota Group, he led an intervention programme, and he has been involved in mindful leadership development in the automotive industry (FIAT, TRW, Brembo). He graduated from the British School of Management Consultancy (BTI Executive), Systems Work (Taunus-Institut Berlin), the Transforming Presence Leadership and Coaching (TPLC™) programme and numerous courses (SKiTZ Matrik, CoachWise™ Proficiency). Author of the bestselling book "Coaching" (2013).

Business Development Manager
Lions Group

Business Development Manager responsible for establishing and maintaining long-term relationships with business partners and academia. Co-creator of the HRO™ Human-Relation-Organisation philosophy. Responsible for the company's image and creation of development and sales policies. Co-organiser of the HR Genius by Hutchinson Institute and the Growing Circle HRO™ community. Graduate of the University of Lodz, Lodz University of Technology and Johannes Gutenberg Universitat. Passionate about marketing and solutions based on design thinking. Holds a DIMAQ certificate. Privately a fan of positive attitude, travelling and good music.

Solo violinist, motivational speaker for business

Violinist, soloist and pedagogue. Doctor of musical arts, promoter of Polish culture around the world and organizer of charity events for children's hospitals. As of February 1, 2021, she is president of the Virtuosa Foundation founded by Colliers International, where she will continue her already several years of modernization efforts, bringing together the worlds of business, art and medicine. In 2020, her activities on behalf of the "Pomnik-Centrum for Children's Health" Institute, of which she is an ambassador, led to her raising some PLN 2.5 million in the business world. She is the originator and organizer of the unprecedented art and business events "Great Artists to Little Patients," which helped raise further funds for upgrades at CZD. The artist led both events, and they gathered an audience of more than a thousand people each time. The rank, publicity and, above all, the excellent financial result for the hospital caused Patrycja Piekutowska to be included in the poll organized for 18 years by Pulse of Medicine, being on the list of the 100 most influential people in the health care category of 2019. In addition, she played nearly 900 concerts in 39 countries around the world, and became the producer of her remarkable entertainment album, My Journey, which tells the story of 12 cities on 4 continents with which the artist has a special connection. With this album, she has reached many listeners who do not have to be classical music lovers, as it is a completely entertaining album.

First Vice President
for Operations of the Amica Group

A graduate of Poznan University of Technology and Cranfield University in the UK. For almost 30 years he has been involved in the management of international supply chains from both the distribution logistics and production management sides. He is particularly interested in the "trade-up" issue between the expected level of customer service and the cost of providing it.
Vice President of the Management Board (appointed to the Management Board of Amica S.A. in May 2019 and again in June 2023) As a member of the Management Board, he was responsible for carrying out all tasks related to the management, development and supervision of all Amica Group projects in the area of digitalization, as well as for the development of IT technology in the Amica Group. Meanwhile, since 2023, he has been responsible for production, environmental protection, purchasing and logistics.
Prior to his appointment to the Management Board of Amica S.A., Robert Stobinski held the following positions: General Manager at Amazon (Poznań, London, Szczecin), Operations Director for Europe at Bundy Refrigeration, Vice President at Samsung Electronics Poland, Member of the Management Board responsible for Supply Chain at Beiersdorf. From 2004 to 2010 he was Chief Operating Officer at Amica S.A.

Board Member
BSH

Krzysztof Nagodzinski of BSH Home Appliances has been a member of the board since 2019. He is responsible for sales and marketing as well as factory service.
A graduate of the University of Warsaw and postgraduate studies at the Warsaw School of Economics, he has been with BSH for 23 years. He started his career in Factory Service as Head of the Technical Department. He then worked in Marketing, where he was Director for eight years. In this role, he was responsible for marketing activities and product management for large and small household appliances. From 2015 to 2019, as Sales Director, he was responsible for the development of large household appliances.

Member of the Management Board of ATC Cargo S.A.

Graduate of the University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk School of Management, and the Academy of Leadership Psychology at the Warsaw School of Business. Since 2014, associated with ATC Cargo S.A., responsible for operations, sales, and development of freight forwarding and contract logistics services. An expert in intermodal transport, container and general cargo forwarding as well.

Country Director Poland & Baltics
Beko Europe

Michal Grzeliński manages the Polish and Baltic markets as Country Director for Beko joint-stock co. He has more than 20 years of experience in the white goods market, specializing in the development and implementation of commercial strategies, team management and business development. Prior to his current role, he spent many years managing marketing and products in Poland and Eastern Europe. He has extensive expertise in consumer behavior and commercial diversification.

He has worked for Samsung, Indesit and UPC. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Lodz and Harvard Business School programs. He holds an international certificate of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.

In his free time, he enjoys sports and spending time with his family.

Business psychologist, certified trainer, coach, organisational therapist

Business psychologist, certified trainer, coach, organisational therapist (TRE Provider, CCEP). Expert in communication and organisational relations (MVI Gray). She has been working with organisations for over 16 years teaching a holistic approach in leadership and team management. She teaches organisational intervention, working with emotions, stress reduction and unconventional methods of building employee capacity. She has led departments in administrative institutions and in the development market she has implemented projects for EDF, SAS, Toyota, Nordea, Roche, InterCars, Philips, ArcelorMittal, among others. She organises women's circles and development trips awakening the power of business women.

Plant Manager at Electrolux

Pawel Sowicz - started his career in the Electrolux Group in August 2005. In January 2014 he took over the position of Director of the Dishwasher Factory in Zarow, and since July 2018 he has been managing the Cooker Factory in Swidnica.
He has international work experience, having worked in Electrolux factories in Italy, among others. Born and raised in the Opole region, Sowicz holds a Master's degree in Electronics and Telecommunications and Quality Management from the Wroclaw University of Technology.

HR Head
BEKO Europe North Area

Mirosława Jachym-Krupa currently in function of HR Head in BEKO Europe North Area, managing factories BEKO in Poland and in UK. She is responsible for all processes connected with Business HR, such as training & development of employees, recruitment, salary policy, change management in running projects, collaboration with unions.

Before, Mirosława for many years was responsible for Quality in Whirlpool Polska Wroclaw. Then she took the responsibility for organization and management of WPS (Whirlpool Production System) coordinating the implementation of WCM (Worlds Class Manufacturing). On this position she was till 2019, in which Wroclaw Refrigeration company has achieved Bronze medal in WCM, as first out of all EMEA Whirlpool factories. Prior, joining Whirlpool Mirosława worked in Saint-Gobain Euroveder Italy managing quality team there and also several years she spent in Saint-Gobain Euroveder Poland managing teams of quality, logistic and production.

Mirosława has finished technical University in Wrocław with specialization Production Systems Management. Additionally she finished postgraduated studies in Higher School of Banking in Psychology in Business, Lately she participated in Personal Leadership Academy with Ican institute.