Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Strategic leader with a 20-year international career and a strong track record in innovation, strategy, and sustainability. Since 2010, I have focused primarily on financial services—designing products and services that embed sustainability at the core to enhance competitive advantage, resilience, and profitability, while contributing to broader social and environmental impact. Member of Chapter Zero – Directors’ Climate Forum, part of the World Economic Forum’s Climate Governance Initiative. INSEAD MBA graduate, with additional executive training in sustainability, including the INSEAD Strategy and Investing for Impact course. Bringing a truly global perspective, having lived and worked in eight mature and emerging markets across Europe, Asia, and North America. Ancestral connections to Poland and Switzerland, amongst others. Fluent in English and French. Learning German. Rachel De Renzy Channer, the then Global Head of Sustainability at Egon Zehnder, observed: “As businesses integrate sustainability, we’re seeing the role open up more to strategic thinkers—transformers, change agents, disrupters—rather than just subject matter experts.” I proudly represent this new wave.
EIC Accelerator expert focusing and financial services, sustainability (incl. circularity) and services innovation. EIC Accelerator is Europe’s flagship innovation programme to identify, develop and scale up breakthrough innovations. • Evaluated 80+ detailed innovation financing proposals (~€0.5B) from the most ambitious early-stage European startups covering fintech, deep tech, sustainability and digital services. Provided strategic guidance on business models, scalability and market fit.
Since its creation, the IIMCB has been a lighthouse of research and management excellence in Poland. The RACE project will make the IIMCB a reference model in translational research countrywide and elevate the Institute to the top tier of European research centres ready to engage in competitive EU and global biomedical research and innovation projects at the frontiers of science. The Commercialisation Advisory Council is intended to help the Institute's leadership steer through the growth process when it comes to developing a high performance interface between science and business. The RACE project is funded by the EU Horizon Europe 2023 Teaming programme as a result of a call in which IIMCB with its partners VIB (Belgium) and the University of Edinburgh (UK) have scored 1st out of 120+ applicants.
Loyal VC invests in a diversified global pool of pre-selected high-potential tech startups sourced from the world's #1 pre-seed accelerator, the Founder Institute, and one of the world's top business school, INSEAD.
Supporting top management of companies in addressing their strategy, innovation and sustainability related challenges and opportunities. • Example: Gathered a comprehensive set of customer-research-driven insights to build an entirely new value proposition for the “affluent plus” segment of a multi-million-customer, digital-first bank belonging to a large European group. Topics covered, i.a.: responsible consumption, empowerment, self-improvement, financial safety, health and wellbeing, life events banking, AI, responsible investment.