Meet our speaker - Maciej Ćwikiewicz

Maciej Ćwikiewicz

Maciej Ćwikiewicz

PFR Ventures

Maciej Ćwikiewicz

PFR Ventures

BIO

He has over 15 years of experience in the investment and strategy consulting industries in the areas of sales, marketing, strategy and change management.

From 2009 to 2014, he was Investment Director at ARX Equity Partners (a private equity fund investing in middle market companies in Central and Eastern Europe), where he focused on the industrial and service sector in Poland.
In the consulting industry, Maciej Ćwikiewicz worked for such companies as McKinsey & Co, Kolaja & Partners (now Alvarez & Marsal) and PwC. He has advised primarily private equity funds on business assessment of companies as acquisition targets or on development and implementation of post-acquisition value enhancement programs, as well as entrepreneurs-owners of Polish manufacturing companies such as Zelmer, POCH, or Dr Irena Eris. He has held interim management positions responsible for managing the entire value enhancement or restructuring process for such companies as Kross, Sanitec Budfarfor, or RUCH.

Maciej Ćwikiewicz gained international experience in the United States, where in 2000-2001 he worked at Portland International Airport in the Aviation Research Department, and also in Indonesia, where he worked for Elnusa company in 2002.

He graduated from Warsaw School of Economics, majoring in Finance and Banking in 2000 and received his MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 2009. He completed the Venture Capital Program at the University of California at Berkeley.