Management Board
Piotr Żabski (Vice President of the Bank’s Management Board, managing the work of the Bank’s Management Board)
Piotr Żabski is a graduate of management and finance at the Faculty of Computer Science and Management at the Wrocław University of Science and Technology. He obtained the title of Mastere at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de St. Etienne, Executive in Strategy and Innovation at MIT, and graduated in health promotion from the Academy of Physical Education in Wrocław.
He is an experienced and committed manager with nearly 30 years of experience in the banking sector. He was among others Vice President of the Management Board of Santander Consumer Bank responsible for strategy and innovation, IT development, cybersecurity, retail loan sales and marketing, debt collection, Agile transformation, PMO, legal and compliance, HR development and administration. Previously, he worked for 11 years at Lukas Bank, where among others he held the position of Director of the Key Account Department and Sales Director, as well as Managing Director of the Consumer Finance line.
Piotr Żabski meets all the requirements set out in the provisions of Article 22aa of the Act of 29 August 1997 – the Banking Law (consolidated text: Dz.U. [Polish Journal of Laws] of 2019, item 2357 as amended).
Piotr Żabski is a graduate of management and finance at the Faculty of Computer Science and Management at the Wrocław University of Science and Technology. He obtained the title of Mastere at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de St. Etienne, Executive in Strategy and Innovation at MIT, and graduated in health promotion from the Academy of Physical Education in Wrocław.
He is an experienced and committed manager with nearly 30 years of experience in the banking sector. He was among others Vice President of the Management Board of Santander Consumer Bank responsible for strategy and innovation, IT development, cybersecurity, retail loan sales and marketing, debt collection, Agile transformation, PMO, legal and compliance, HR development and administration. Previously, he worked for 11 years at Lukas Bank, where among others he held the position of Director of the Key Account Department and Sales Director, as well as Managing Director of the Consumer Finance line.
Piotr Żabski meets all the requirements set out in the provisions of Article 22aa of the Act of 29 August 1997 – the Banking Law (consolidated text: Dz.U. [Polish Journal of Laws] of 2019, item 2357 as amended).
Artur Chołody (Member of the Supervisory Board delegated to temporarily perform the duties of the Vice President of the Bank's Management Board)
Mr. Artur Chołody is a Doctor of Economics, graduate of law at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, completed legal counsel training at the District Chamber of Legal Advisors in Poznań with a successful exam obtaining the title of legal counsel, graduate of MBA studies at ZZL Franklin University Ohio/WSB Poznań, graduate of postgraduate studies in Management Psychology, NGO Management, Internet Entrepreneurship, and Methodology of Economic Sciences.
For nearly 20 years, he has been a partner in “Wielkopolska Grupa Prawnicza sp.k.”, specializing in public procurement and providing services to companies applying for international public contracts. A member of the management boards of companies from the industrial sector, he successfully carried out the restructuring of “Fabryki Narzędzi Specjalnych spółka z o.o.” company, laying the foundations for the construction of a Polish capital group in the tool industry.
He has over 5 years of experience in participating in supervisory boards. Among others he was the Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board of “Zarząd Komunalnych Zasobów Lokalowych sp. z o.o.” in Poznań, the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of “Zakład Energetyki Cieplnej sp. z o.o.” in Ostrzeszów.
Since April 27, 2024, he is a member of the Bank's Supervisory Board, including the period from May 15, 2024, to August 14, 2024, when he was delegated to temporarily perform the duties of the Vice President of the Bank's Management Board responsible for managing the work of the Management Board. .
Artur Chołody meets all the requirements set out in Article 22aa of the Banking Law Act of August 29, 1997 (Journal of Laws 2023, item 2488).
Mr. Artur Chołody is a Doctor of Economics, graduate of law at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, completed legal counsel training at the District Chamber of Legal Advisors in Poznań with a successful exam obtaining the title of legal counsel, graduate of MBA studies at ZZL Franklin University Ohio/WSB Poznań, graduate of postgraduate studies in Management Psychology, NGO Management, Internet Entrepreneurship, and Methodology of Economic Sciences.
For nearly 20 years, he has been a partner in “Wielkopolska Grupa Prawnicza sp.k.”, specializing in public procurement and providing services to companies applying for international public contracts. A member of the management boards of companies from the industrial sector, he successfully carried out the restructuring of “Fabryki Narzędzi Specjalnych spółka z o.o.” company, laying the foundations for the construction of a Polish capital group in the tool industry.
He has over 5 years of experience in participating in supervisory boards. Among others he was the Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board of “Zarząd Komunalnych Zasobów Lokalowych sp. z o.o.” in Poznań, the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of “Zakład Energetyki Cieplnej sp. z o.o.” in Ostrzeszów.
Since April 27, 2024, he is a member of the Bank's Supervisory Board, including the period from May 15, 2024, to August 14, 2024, when he was delegated to temporarily perform the duties of the Vice President of the Bank's Management Board responsible for managing the work of the Management Board. .
Artur Chołody meets all the requirements set out in Article 22aa of the Banking Law Act of August 29, 1997 (Journal of Laws 2023, item 2488).
Marcin Ciszewski (Vice-President of Alior Bank)
Marcin Ciszewski graduated in finance and banking from the Cracow University of Economics and completed postgraduate studies in risk management in financial institutions at the Warsaw School of Economics. In addition, he completed the Strategic Leadership Academy course at the ICAN Institute, organized by Harvard Business Review.
Marcin Ciszewski is a manager with over 20 years of experience in finance and risk management.
He was the Vice President of Ultimo TFI SA as a member of the management board overseeing the risk management system. For more than 18 years he was associated with Euro Bank SA, where he was the Vice President of the Management Board for 9 years, including two and a half years as Chief Risk Officer. Previously, as CFO and Director of the Controlling Department. In addition, he gained experience at Volkswagen Bank Polska SA and Lukas Bank SA. ition, he gained experience at Volkswagen Bank Polska SA and Lukas Bank SA.
Marcin Ciszewski meets all the requirements set out in Article 22aa of the Banking Law Act of August 29, 1997 (Journal of Laws 2023, item 2488).
Marcin Ciszewski graduated in finance and banking from the Cracow University of Economics and completed postgraduate studies in risk management in financial institutions at the Warsaw School of Economics. In addition, he completed the Strategic Leadership Academy course at the ICAN Institute, organized by Harvard Business Review.
Marcin Ciszewski is a manager with over 20 years of experience in finance and risk management.
He was the Vice President of Ultimo TFI SA as a member of the management board overseeing the risk management system. For more than 18 years he was associated with Euro Bank SA, where he was the Vice President of the Management Board for 9 years, including two and a half years as Chief Risk Officer. Previously, as CFO and Director of the Controlling Department. In addition, he gained experience at Volkswagen Bank Polska SA and Lukas Bank SA. ition, he gained experience at Volkswagen Bank Polska SA and Lukas Bank SA.
Marcin Ciszewski meets all the requirements set out in Article 22aa of the Banking Law Act of August 29, 1997 (Journal of Laws 2023, item 2488).
Jacek Iljin (Vice-President of Alior Bank)
Jacek Iljin graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Sociology of the University of Lodz in the field of finance and banking. He continued his postgraduate education, obtaining an EMBA from the University of Lodz, Towson University and the University of Baltimore. He also developed his managerial skills at HPL and Advanced HPL programs at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Switzerland.
He has extensive experience in banking, primarily retail. In 2002, he joined mBank. He coshaped the development of the institution from an innovative start-up, established under the then BRE Bank, to the one of the largest retail banks in Poland, also operating on internationally in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Jacek Iljin is an experienced manager. During his career at mBank, he held various supervisory positions in mBank Group subsidiaries and management positions in strategy, marketing, product management, sales and direct marketing, as well as distribution model development. Most recently, as Managing Director at mBank for Sales and Business Processes in Retail Banking, he focused on business growth, digital transformation and building a distribution model that combines the strengths of digital channels and that what is most valuable for banks - people
Jacek Iljin meets all the requirements set out in Article 22aa of the Banking Law Act of August 29, 1997 (Journal of Laws 2023, item 2488).
Jacek Iljin graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Sociology of the University of Lodz in the field of finance and banking. He continued his postgraduate education, obtaining an EMBA from the University of Lodz, Towson University and the University of Baltimore. He also developed his managerial skills at HPL and Advanced HPL programs at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Switzerland.
He has extensive experience in banking, primarily retail. In 2002, he joined mBank. He coshaped the development of the institution from an innovative start-up, established under the then BRE Bank, to the one of the largest retail banks in Poland, also operating on internationally in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Jacek Iljin is an experienced manager. During his career at mBank, he held various supervisory positions in mBank Group subsidiaries and management positions in strategy, marketing, product management, sales and direct marketing, as well as distribution model development. Most recently, as Managing Director at mBank for Sales and Business Processes in Retail Banking, he focused on business growth, digital transformation and building a distribution model that combines the strengths of digital channels and that what is most valuable for banks - people
Jacek Iljin meets all the requirements set out in Article 22aa of the Banking Law Act of August 29, 1997 (Journal of Laws 2023, item 2488).
Tomasz Miklas (Vice-President of Alior Bank)
Employed at Alior Bank since 2008 and was promoted to the position of Deputy CEO in October 2022. Previously, he held numerous managerial positions in credit, operational, liquidity, and market risk management. He has many years of experience in leading strategic projects, including work organization transformation, mergers and acquisitions, and implementation of new products and processes.
From 2021, prior to joining the Management Board, he held the position of Director of the Credit Risk Department at Alior Bank. He was responsible for credit risk management for individual clients, micro-enterprises, business customers, and supervision of the credit policy of Alior Bank’s subsidiary - Alior Leasing.
In addition, he chaired the Credit Risk and Business Initiatives Committee and was a member of the Credit Committee, the Operational Risk Committee, the Model Risk Committee and the Bank Development Committee.
From 2017 to 2021, he was responsible for credit risk management for business segments, including micro-enterprises and business clients. Between 2013 and 2017, he focused on credit risk management of products for individual clients.
Tomasz Miklas is a graduate of Computer Science and Econometrics at the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the University of Warsaw. He also completed postgraduate studies in Risk Management at Financial Institutions at the Warsaw School of Economics.
Tomasz Miklas meets all the requirements set out in the provisions of Article 22aa of the Act of 29 August 1997 – the Banking Law (consolidated text: Dz.U. [Polish Journal of Laws] of 2019, item 2357 as amended).
Employed at Alior Bank since 2008 and was promoted to the position of Deputy CEO in October 2022. Previously, he held numerous managerial positions in credit, operational, liquidity, and market risk management. He has many years of experience in leading strategic projects, including work organization transformation, mergers and acquisitions, and implementation of new products and processes.
From 2021, prior to joining the Management Board, he held the position of Director of the Credit Risk Department at Alior Bank. He was responsible for credit risk management for individual clients, micro-enterprises, business customers, and supervision of the credit policy of Alior Bank’s subsidiary - Alior Leasing.
In addition, he chaired the Credit Risk and Business Initiatives Committee and was a member of the Credit Committee, the Operational Risk Committee, the Model Risk Committee and the Bank Development Committee.
From 2017 to 2021, he was responsible for credit risk management for business segments, including micro-enterprises and business clients. Between 2013 and 2017, he focused on credit risk management of products for individual clients.
Tomasz Miklas is a graduate of Computer Science and Econometrics at the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the University of Warsaw. He also completed postgraduate studies in Risk Management at Financial Institutions at the Warsaw School of Economics.
Tomasz Miklas meets all the requirements set out in the provisions of Article 22aa of the Act of 29 August 1997 – the Banking Law (consolidated text: Dz.U. [Polish Journal of Laws] of 2019, item 2357 as amended).
Wojciech Przybył (Vice-President of Alior Bank)
Wojciech Przybył is a graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Wrocław and an MBA from the Nottingham Trent University Wielkopolska School of Business.
Most of his over 20-year professional career is associated with the financial industry and the areas of new technologies.
For 22 years, he has been professionally associated with the Credit Agricole Group. He started his career at EFL SA in managerial positions related to customer service, first as Deputy Director of the Customer Service Department, and later as Director, actively participating in projects of centralization and quality building of after-sales service. In 2009, he built from scratch a new entity in the group responsible for insurance and leasing loans - EFL Finance SA. In 2018, he was responsible for building an innovation environment for the EFL Group. Since 2020, he has been a member of the EFL Management Board responsible for the areas of marketing, ESG, insurance and innovation, key to the strategic development of the EFL Group.
He is the author and promoter of numerous projects in the field of digitization and solutions enabling remote conclusion of leasing agreements.
Wojciech Przybył meets all the requirements set out in the provisions of Article 22aa of the Act of 29 August 1997 – the Banking Law (consolidated text: Dz.U. [Polish Journal of Laws] of 2019, item 2357 as amended).
Wojciech Przybył is a graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Wrocław and an MBA from the Nottingham Trent University Wielkopolska School of Business.
Most of his over 20-year professional career is associated with the financial industry and the areas of new technologies.
For 22 years, he has been professionally associated with the Credit Agricole Group. He started his career at EFL SA in managerial positions related to customer service, first as Deputy Director of the Customer Service Department, and later as Director, actively participating in projects of centralization and quality building of after-sales service. In 2009, he built from scratch a new entity in the group responsible for insurance and leasing loans - EFL Finance SA. In 2018, he was responsible for building an innovation environment for the EFL Group. Since 2020, he has been a member of the EFL Management Board responsible for the areas of marketing, ESG, insurance and innovation, key to the strategic development of the EFL Group.
He is the author and promoter of numerous projects in the field of digitization and solutions enabling remote conclusion of leasing agreements.
Wojciech Przybył meets all the requirements set out in the provisions of Article 22aa of the Act of 29 August 1997 – the Banking Law (consolidated text: Dz.U. [Polish Journal of Laws] of 2019, item 2357 as amended).
Zdzisław Wojtera (Vice-President of Alior Bank)
Zdzisław Wojtera is a graduate of Cybernetics and Computer Science at the Faculty of Economics and Sociology of the University of Lodz and postgraduate studies in Banking and Regional Economy at Radboud University in the Netherlands. He completed the Advanced Management Program at IESE Business School, the specialized financial program Corporate Financial Strategy at INSEAD, and Data Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
He has been associated with the financial sector for over 30 years. He worked in the management boards of banks and banking companies as well as supervisory boards, specializing in financial management. He participated in the transformation of the financial sector from the beginning of systemic changes to the present, i.e. since the separation of commercial banks from the National Bank of Poland up to the development of online banking and mobile platforms. In the 1990s, as part of his work at Powszechny Bank Gospodarczy SA, he was responsible for the restructuring of many enterprises and financial companies that had problems with adapting their business model to the requirements of the free market economy. As part of the structures of PBG SA, as Vice-President of the Management Board, he developed PBG Leasing, and then, at the request of PKO BP, he established the leasing company PKO Leasing, today the largest leasing company in the country. In 2002-2005, he was Vice President of the Management Board of Bank Pocztowy, where he was responsible for finance, restructuring, and implementation of a new IT system for transactional banking.
Since 2005, he has been associated with mBank, where he was the director supervising the finance area, and recently he was responsible for the construction and development of a modern management information system. He applies the latest knowledge and technologies to create modern future-oriented finance, that supports the implementation of business strategy and uses AI/ML tools.
Zdzisław Wojtera all the requirements set out in the provisions of Article 22aa of the Act of 29 August 1997 – the Banking Law (consolidated text: Dz.U. [Polish Journal of Laws] of 2019, item 2357 as amended).
Zdzisław Wojtera is a graduate of Cybernetics and Computer Science at the Faculty of Economics and Sociology of the University of Lodz and postgraduate studies in Banking and Regional Economy at Radboud University in the Netherlands. He completed the Advanced Management Program at IESE Business School, the specialized financial program Corporate Financial Strategy at INSEAD, and Data Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
He has been associated with the financial sector for over 30 years. He worked in the management boards of banks and banking companies as well as supervisory boards, specializing in financial management. He participated in the transformation of the financial sector from the beginning of systemic changes to the present, i.e. since the separation of commercial banks from the National Bank of Poland up to the development of online banking and mobile platforms. In the 1990s, as part of his work at Powszechny Bank Gospodarczy SA, he was responsible for the restructuring of many enterprises and financial companies that had problems with adapting their business model to the requirements of the free market economy. As part of the structures of PBG SA, as Vice-President of the Management Board, he developed PBG Leasing, and then, at the request of PKO BP, he established the leasing company PKO Leasing, today the largest leasing company in the country. In 2002-2005, he was Vice President of the Management Board of Bank Pocztowy, where he was responsible for finance, restructuring, and implementation of a new IT system for transactional banking.
Since 2005, he has been associated with mBank, where he was the director supervising the finance area, and recently he was responsible for the construction and development of a modern management information system. He applies the latest knowledge and technologies to create modern future-oriented finance, that supports the implementation of business strategy and uses AI/ML tools.
Zdzisław Wojtera all the requirements set out in the provisions of Article 22aa of the Act of 29 August 1997 – the Banking Law (consolidated text: Dz.U. [Polish Journal of Laws] of 2019, item 2357 as amended).