Meet our speaker - Piotr Alicki
Piotr Alicki
BIO
President of the Management Board since November 2nd, 2016.
In 1990-1998 he worked in the IT Department of Pomorski Bank Kredytowy S.A. in Szczecin (as of 1997 at the position of the Director) and he was responsible for the management of the Bank's transaction systems: including designing, development, implementation and operation phases. In 1999-2010, he held the position of the Director of the IT Systems Development and Maintenance Department in Bank Pekao S.A., and since 2006 he managed the Information Technology Division of the Bank. His responsibilities included integration of IT systems of four banks: Pekao S.A., PBKS S.A., BDK S.A., PBG S.A. and implementation of the Integrated IT System. He also managed IT integration and migration of data from BPH S.A. systems to Pekao S.A. systems and participated in the works of the team responsible for the entire integration process.
Since 2000 he has been the member of the Supervisory Board of KIR and from 2005 to 2010 he was the Chairman of the Supervisory Board. In 2002-2010 he represented Bank Pekao S.A. in the Payment System Council at the National Bank of Poland, and in 2010-2016 he represented PKO Bank Polski S.A.
He was a member of the Supervisory Boards of the companies belonging to the Bank Pekao S.A. Group. While holding the position of the Vice-President of the Management Board of PKO Bank Polski S.A., he was also a member of the Supervisory Boards of the companies belonging to the PKO Bank Polski S.A. Capital Group – Inteligo Financial Services, Nordea Bank Polska and PKO Bank Hipoteczny S.A.
As of November 2010 to October 2016 he held the position of the Vice-President of the Management Board supervising the Area of Information Technology and Services at PKO Bank Polski S.A. His responsibilities included integration of Inteligo to the bank's systems, merger and integration of Nordea Bank Polska to PKO Bank Polski S.A. and development as well as implementation of the mobile payment system – IKO, which constituted the basis for setting up of the Polish Payment Standard.
He took active part in the work of the Polish Bank Association: as a member of its Steering Committee for the Development of Bank Infrastructure, Payments System Committee, Issues Committee for Banking and Bank Financial Services, and its Electronic Banking Council.
He held the position of the Chairman of the Electronic Banking Council of the Polish Bank Association in the period from October 2011 to October 2016.
From May 2011 to April 2015 he was a member of the Board of Directors of Visa Europe representing PKO Bank Polski S.A. and other banks from Poland and seven countries of our sub-region.
He has been awarded the special decoration of the President of NBP "In recognition of merits to the banking sector of the Republic of Poland" and Mikołaj Kopernik Gold Medal awarded by the Polish Bank Association; he was the winner of industry-related competitions: "IT Sector Leader 1997", "IT Sector Leader 2010", "IT Sector Leader 2012", "IT Sector Leader 2016". Recipient of the Digital Shapers 2018 title awarded to outstanding figures in the digital world and new technologies in Poland.
He graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at the Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań.