Post by Green Dawn Partners

Two of Intel's most senior Poland leaders have launched BearLake Group, a deep-tech holding uniting eight Polish technology companies. What happened? Michał Dżoga, Intel's former Country Manager in Poland, and Max Dropinski, a semiconductor and AI specialist, have brought eight Polish firms together under one holding spanning AI, cybersecurity, data centres and energy infrastructure. The group already employs more than 200 people and generates over €115m in revenue, with an ambition to help seed a European semiconductor hub across Poland, Germany, Czechia and Slovakia. Why it matters. Leadership moves of this seniority rarely stay contained. When operators who helped run one of Intel's largest R&D centres outside the US redirect that experience into a home-grown holding, the downstream effect is hiring: platform and cloud engineers, cybersecurity specialists, data and AI leads, and the technical leadership to hold it all together. A stated plan to double revenue within three years implies sustained recruitment across precisely the roles that are hardest to fill in the Polish market. It is also a signal about sovereignty, with Poland increasingly building, and staffing, its own critical technology rather than importing it. Will more senior Polish technologists leave global corporates to build domestic deep-tech champions, and can the talent market keep pace? #TechLeadership #Poland #DeepTech #Hiring #AI