Witold Urbanowski

Seasoned business leader

Râmnicu Vâlcea, Vâlcea, Romania

About

PROFILE & EXPERIENCE General Manager CEE | sectors: Energy including RES, Chemicals, Oil & Gas (LPG), FMCG | multilingual. Experience: Competent and effective in general management, in commercial & sales and in production. Strong P&L experience and result orientation; recently with focus on restructuring and business value creation in international environment – Polish, Czech, Romanian, Indian. Experience in start-ups and turn-arounds; strategies building and budgeting and their execution. Core competence in managing people and their motivation, also in multi-cultural perspective. Creator and strong leader of effective and highly motivated teams delivering targets. Worked in Oil & Gas and in FMCG, currently in Chemicals ; in B2B and B2C; in multinational corporations and for private entrepreneurs and investment funds; for service companies and manufacturer ones; in mother country and expatriate ( Romania, Czechia, India). Over 30 years of the professional career. Languages: Polish (native), English ( fluent), Romanian ( fluent), Czech (fluent), , Russian (intermediary), Spanish (beginner+).

Experience

  • Entrepreneur and Advisor at Self-employed
    Mar 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Representative of Polenergia in Romania at Polenergia
    Jul 2024 - Apr 2025 · 10 mos

    Director (Administrator) in Wind Farm Four SRL - Polenergia company in Romania. Development of ambitious on-shore eolian project -> wind farms located in the Tulcea County, Dobrogea region, by the Black Sea.

  • CIECH Group (10 yrs 11 mos)
    • Member of the Board of Directors CIECH Soda Romania S.A.
      May 2023 - Feb 2024 · 10 mos

    • CEO CIECH Soda Romania S.A.
      Apr 2013 - Apr 2023 · 10 yrs 1 mo

      2019 – 2023: Leading the preparations and promotion towards the Romanian authorities of the CSR Energy Project OLA - construction and operation of the solar farms with substantial installed power in order to keep value of the Company assets in post stand-by period. Managing mid-size business of silicates. 2013 – 2018: Responsible for a challenging turn-around of that company and its profitable development. As of mid 2013 CIECH Soda Romania undertook a restructuring program, succeeded to reverse 8 year loss trend in 2014. That restructuring included a complete reshuffle of the business and organization with 30% personnel reduction. Development: from 2014 the company implemented an investments program increasing the production capacity in 2015 to +17% vs. 2013. In 2016 - 2017 another +10% production growth has been achieved by new investments. Sales in 2018 has grown 133% vs. 2013.

  • Member of the Board of Administration CHIMCOMPLEX S.A. at CHIMCOMPLEX
    Aug 2022 - Jan 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Consultant at Consulting
    Feb 2012 - Apr 2013 · 1 yr 3 mos

    Business profile : Restructuring & Value Building. FMCG + Oil & Gas (LPG). Projects in Romania in LPG industry.