Meet our speaker - Anna Grabowska

Anna Grabowska

Anna Grabowska

Żabka Polska

Anna Grabowska

Żabka Polska

BIO

Anna Grabowska is Executive Vice President of the Management Board and Chief Commercial Officer
(CCO).
Since January 2021, she has managed a team tasked with setting the company’s direction. Her
activities are focused on building consumer, commercial and support strategies that are well thought
out and customer-centric, such as brand and own brands strategy and responsible and sustainable
development strategy (ESG).
Prior to this position, since April 2016, she served as Vice-President of Commercial Affairs at Żabka
Polska, heading the commercial and marketing departments. She was responsible for defining and
implementing the chain’s assortment, promotion and pricing strategy. She supervised the
transformation of the retail chain to a new format, implementing a new marketing strategy and an
innovative vision of communication with customers. In the last four years in this position, she has led

the transformation of the store offers, developing innovative modern convenience products, brands
and services to meet the needs of the modern consumer.
Previously, she was associated with the Tesco chain for nearly 19 years, including many years as
Commercial Director. In the years 2011-2015, she sat on the Tesco Management Board in Poland as
Vice President for Commercial Affairs. She also gained her international professional experience at
Tesco in the UK and Hungary, as well as being responsible for the Grocery Commercial team in
Central Europe (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary).
She is an alumnus of Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Foreign Trade at the Cracow
University of Economics. She also completed many programmes in management, business strategy
and team leadership at Polish and foreign universities, including: London Business School, INSEAD
France and Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She holds an Executive MBA diploma
from Ecole de Management de Normandie and Cracow University of Economics.