Meet our speaker - Iwona Waksmundzka-Olejniczak

Iwona Waksmundzka-Olejniczak

Iwona Waksmundzka-Olejniczak

PKN ORLEN

Iwona Waksmundzka-Olejniczak

PKN ORLEN

  

BIO

Member of the PKN ORLEN Management Board, Strategy and Sustainability, Branch Director of PKN ORLEN S.A. – Central Branch of PGNiG in Warsaw.

She joined the PKN ORLEN Management Board on November 3rd 2022. She has many years’ experience in managing large teams and corporate structures, particularly in the energy sector, including oil and gas, and the banking sectors. She has an in-depth knowledge of capital markets, corporate governance, large project management, and corporate strategy development and implementation.

Since April 9th 2022, President of the PGNiG Management Board. Thanks to her efforts, PGNiG signed several contracts with gas suppliers from the Norwegian Continental Shelf, including a long-term contract with Equinor for the purchase of 2.4 billion cubic meters of gas annually. Under her supervision, the merger between PGNiG and PKN ORLEN was successfully finalized in accordance with the adopted timetable. Throughout the process, all stakeholders’ interests were taken into account, and the social partners, including trade unions and employee representatives, were fully engaged in dialogue. As a result, PGNiG, PKN ORLEN, and the trade unions at PGNiG signed an agreement confirming the rights of the company’s employees after the merger. After the merger, she took the position of Branch Director of PKN ORLEN – PGNiG Central Branch in Warsaw.

From July 16th 2021 to April 8th 2022 she served as President of the Management Board of ENERGA S.A., an ORLEN Group company. She supervised the entire Energa Group and its key projects. She coordinated the implementation of the Energa Group’s new strategy, with a special focus on energy transition goals and integration with the ORLEN Group.

She joined PKN ORLEN in February 2018, first serving as Head of the Investor Relations Office and from February 2019 as Executive Director of Strategy, Innovation and Investor Relations responsible for the development and implementation of PKN ORLEN’s strategy, decarbonisation strategy, hydrogen strategy and supervision of strategic projects across the Group. She was responsible for creating the „ORLEN in Portfolio” loyalty programme, which was the first of its kind for retail investors on the Polish capital market.

In 2016-2017, she headed the private banking and then corporate banking departments at Bank Ochrony Środowiska SA. She has been associated with banking since 2002, holding managerial positions at Plus Bank SA. and Invest Bank SA. Previously, she was also a key account manager at ComputerLand, and in 1998-2001, she worked at European Cooperation Bank and was responsible for key account management.

She is a graduate of the Cracow University of Economics (Management and Marketing) and the University of Insurance and Banking in Warsaw (Finance and Banking). She holds an Executive MBA degree from the University of Commerce and Services in Poznań. She completed postgraduate studies in Project Management at the Warsaw School of Economics.