Sylwia Ziemacka talked to Rafał Lis, founder and managing partner at CVI, a leading private debt investor in the CEE region. The history of the Polish investment fund market dates back to the early 1990s, but the breakout year for the market was 1997 when the Investment Fund Act came into force. How has the…
Tessa McIver talks to Michael Chaffe, CEO of Wolves Summit. Originally from London, Mike has been in Poland for 12 years, and after a career in diving and then as an investor, he is now running one of Poland’s biggest startup conferences. The Wolves Summit conference takes place in various forms each year and has…
From April 26, 2023, fathers in Poland have had the individual right to parental leave, of which nine weeks a year are reserved only for them – if they do not use it, they will lose it. The new legal order does not affect the position of mothers, but aims to help them develop their…
Tessa McIver talks to Walid Barsali, CEO of BallSquad and President of La French Tech Warsaw. Walid Barsali is not only the founder and CEO of the increasingly successful startup BallSquad. He has also recently been appointed President of La French Tech Warsaw, an organisation that aims to bring the Polish and French startup ecosystems…
Tessa McIver talks to Bogusława Cimoszko-Skowroński, founder and board member of the MIT Enterprise Forum CEE, an innovator, investor and startup ecosystem builder. In 2015, Bogy, an MIT alumna, launched the MIT Enterprise Forum Poland accelerator programme, which later evolved into the CEE accelerator. To date, the programme has accelerated nearly 300 startups and built…
Tessa McIver talked to Maciej Kraus who gave an insight into Poland’s Venture Capital landscape and some comparisons with what is going on in the big ol’ US of A. Maciej is a Partner at Movens Capital, a VC fund that invests in seed and series A rounds, and focuses on companies that will revolutionise…
In 2022, despite socioeconomic uncertainty and volatility, boards kept a firm focus on issues such as gender representation and sustainability. That is the main outcome from the latest report from Heidrick & Struggles “Board Monitor Europe 2023”. Sylwia Ziemacka talks to Łukasz Kiniewicz, Partner in Charge in the Warsaw office of Heidrick & Struggles.
It seems, that despite the macro-economic downturn, ongoing geopolitical tensions and supply chain disruptions that characterised much of 2022, the European lodging industry has remained resilient. Sylwia Ziemacka talked to Karin Sheppard SVP & Managing Director Europe at IHG Hotels & Resorts.
Tessa McIver, Host of the “Startup with Poland” series and startup ecosystem builder talks to Tomasz Miłosz is the founder and CEO of Giglike, a startup that supports B2B independent professionals by offering a platform of services and benefits that are traditionally only available to contract employees. Tomek worked in HR in global corporates for…
