Michał M. Lisiecki – President of the Management Board of Platforma Mediowa Point Group SA
Member of Klub Polskiej Rady Biznesu (The Polish Business Roundtable Club), Polish Economic Society and a prestigious international Young Presidents Organization. In 2002, he was awarded the Manager of the Year 2002 by Home&Market magazine. In 2007, he was awarded a certificate of Polska Przedsiębiorcza (Enterprising Poland) and appointed a member of Polska Przedsiębiorcza Programme Board.
He set up his first company when he was 17 years old. He decided to link his professional career with the media and marketing services market. He built Platforma Mediowa Point Group from scratch and today the company thrives, among others, thanks to: “Machina”, “Film” and “?dlaczego” magazines, korba.pl and sport24.pl webistes, BTL Point Group advertising agency and Mobile Point Group, mobile marketing agency, as well as TV Point Group preparing company’s television projects.
During its operation, PMPG SA was granted a number of prestigious awards, such as Chimera award in the Publication Design Contest, CoolBrands award and Art of Business statuette for consistent development of a model, dynamic and flexible company. Since 2006, the company has been listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange.
Graduate of the West Pomeranian Business School and the Faculty of Economics and Management at the University of Szczecin. His hobbies include windsurfing, sailing, scuba diving, swimming, running and skiing. He likes riding a motorcycle and watching good comedies.
Marek Jakubczyk – V-ce President of the Management Board, General Director
Partner at Tigon Capital Limited where he is responsible for the Polish and Ukrainian markets as well as markets of the Baltic states. He is a private capital markets specialist. Prior to work at Tigon, he was a managing partner at Capital Park, real property investments company where he was responsible for investment activities in the Ukraine. Formerly, he acted as V-ce President of Darby Europe and Dresdner Kleinwort Capital (transformed into: Allianz Specialised Investments) investment funds. He was very successful with fund raising activities for Dresdner Kleinwort Capital (USD 225 million) and Darby Overseas (EUR 300 million). At Allianz Specialised Investments he was responsible for the whole investment cycle for Euromedic International NV and Etel Group Limited (as a result, the business was exited to Telekom Austria for 90 million EUR).
Mr. Jakubczyk has a degree in Control and Computer Engineering and an MBA. He also serves on the boards of Bydgoszcz Airport and Mazovian Sochaczew Airport.
Private equity skills:
Fund raising: He successfully completed fund raising efforts for Dresdner Kleinwort Capital private equity (USD 225 million) and Darby Overseas Mezzanine Fund (EUR 300 million). Both were first time funds and both included blue chip limited partners, i.e. CalPERS, KIO, Mizuho Bank, GIMV.
Private equity restructuring: While at Dresdner Kleinwort Capital, he was responsible for the monitoring, restructuring and developing solutions for an alternative telecom investment project - Etel Group Limited. The fund invested into the company in December 2000 at a very high dot com bubble valuation. When, in the face of market changes brought about by rapid growth in the number of companies operating on Internet, the original business plan didn't work, he implemented a far reaching restructuring plan that included: providing the company with bridge loans and implementing debt for equity swap, changes in the company's management structure and appointing an Executive Chairman, selectively acquiring telecom assets from bankruptcy proceedings, transferring most central functions to Vienna and refocusing the business on the Austrian market and eliminating unprofitable products. As a result, the business was exited for ca. EUR 90 million to Telekom Austria in 2007.
Private equity expansion: Dresdner Kleinwort Capital fund invested in a healthcare services company operating diagnostic and dialysis centres, which grew from seven locations in a single country in 2000 to 20 locations in four countries by the end of 2002, and 35 locations by mid 2005.
Tomasz Sadowski – V-ce President of the Management Board
Outstanding expert in civil and commercial law. He worked in enterprises such as Bank Gospodarki Żywnościowej (universal bank), KPWiG (Polish Securities and Exchange Commission), Polska Wytwórnia Papierów Wartościowych (Polish Security Printing Works) where he dealt with IT Technologies. He also acted as the official receiver in district courts in Warsaw and Lublin. He was giving lectures on administrative and economic law at Lazarski School of Commerce and Law (WSHiP) and on foreign exchange and customs law at the University of Economics and Computer Science (WSEI) in Warsaw.
He graduated from his Master’s and Doctor’s Degree Programmes in the Civil Law Institute of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw, received a Master’s Degree in commercial law in the Faculty of Foreign Trade at Lazarski School of Commerce and Law and completed his post-graduate studies at KSAP (National School of Public Administration).
