Meet our speaker - Przemysław Koch

Przemysław Koch

Przemysław Koch

VeloBank

Przemysław Koch

VeloBank

  

BIO

Member of the Management Board in Charge of the Operations and IT.

He started his professional career in a business advisory and consulting company – Accenture, where he was responsible for the implementation of individual modules of the central banking system in PKO Bank Polski. Subsequently, he was associated with the Belgian KBC Capital Group: Kredyt Bank and TUiR Warta and TU NŻ Warta insurance companies (2006-2011). For six years, he acted as Director of the Transactional Application Development Department in the largest bank in Poland – PKO Bank Polski, where he played a key role in the acquisition processes of Nordea Bank Polska and SKOK Wesoła. He participated in PKO Bank Polski’s launch of innovative solutions, including: IKO mobile banking, an engine for calculating risk parameters in accordance with the IRB approach, a system for handling option transactions, a central solution for handling Cash Management products, the Loro system together with ICM functionality, implementation of a new IPKO Dealer auto-dealing system, as well as a fraud detection and handling system (EFM – Enterprise Fraud Management).

Since 2017, he has worked in government administration bodies as a plenipotentiary of the Minister of Finance for computerization, where he has supervised the IT organization of the Ministry of Finance, comprising more than 1,800 employees. He created and then implemented a digital transformation strategy for the Ministry of Finance. He has successfully restructured initiatives which were at a risk of failure, in particular the e-taxes project, for which he secured a pre-jurisdictional settlement. He was responsible for implementing innovative solutions, i.e. Your e-PIT, e-Tax Office, Poltax+, e-Toll, which facilitated and automated administrative processes. He developed and implemented the BIG DATA concept based on the use of algorithms and supervised the implementation of projects such as JPK_VAT, STIR, Split Payment, SENT, MDR, White List of VAT Remitters, e-Financial Statements, on-line Cash Registers, Virtual Cash Registers and e-Receipts. In September 2021, he took up the position of the Director of the Central IT Hub, where he successfully merged the NASK and COI development departments. He was responsible for developing a strategy for digitalization of public administration, including the implementation of an e-payment platform for the public sector, the Central Register of Powers of Attorney and Authorizations, changing the nature of the mObywatel application or the Central Register of Drivers.

Following the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, he successfully managed the Help Ukraine project, as part of which he adapted the national registers for assignment of PESEL (Personal ID) numbers, trusted profiles, and launched the Ukrainian-language version of the mObywatel application and dedicated refugee service centres at the National Stadium, Tauron Arena, as well as a system for handling humanitarian convoys.

He is a graduate of the Faculty of Cybernetics at the Military University of Technology and the Collegium of Management and Finance at the Warsaw School of Economics. He also obtained the Executive Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree.