Meet our speaker - Tomasz Suchański

Tomasz Suchański

Tomasz Suchański

Żabka Poland

Tomasz Suchański

Żabka Poland

BIO

Tomasz Suchański is CEO of Żabka Group.
His many years of experience and deep understanding of the mechanisms that govern the industry
allow him to direct the activities of the Żabka Group in a way that has resulted in the position of the
leader of the convenience model in Central and Eastern Europe.

Prior to becoming CEO in March 2016, he was involved with various Jeronimo Martins companies. He
worked in the company’s international structures, and before that, from 2011 to 2014, he was the
General Manager of Biedronka in Poland. Previously, he held the positions of Chief Financial Officer
of Jeronimo Martins, Member of the Management Board of this company and Chief Operating
Officer of the central region.

Before coming to Poland in 2005, he worked on the international market dealing with Portuguese
chains of the Jeronimo Martins group. In 2003, he took up the post of Financial Director of the
Recheio wholesale chain, and earlier, as a member of the Financial Department, he was in charge of
Pingo Doce supermarkets and Feira Nova hypermarkets.
Tomasz Suchański manages the operations of Żabka Group in an open and competent manner, which
has been repeatedly acknowledged by stakeholders and industry media. In 2020, he was asked to
chair the prestigious Effie Awards. In the same year, the jury of the “CEO of the Year” recognised his
actions related to the effective introduction of the company into the digital transformation process.
The previous year he was honoured as “CEO of the Year”. The year 2019 also brought him the
distinction of being included among the winners of Forbes magazine’s “BrandMe CEO” survey of the
most authentic leaders.
Tomasz Suchański is an alumnus of Stanford Graduate School of Business, INSEAD Business School
and Corporate Finance and Accounting at the Faculty of Management of the Poznań University of
Economics.