The Management Board

The Management Board

The Management Board of Sygnity is composed of five members. The Board has developed and is implementing a new development strategy of the Company. It ensures that all changes introduced enhance the Company's efficiency and result in the possibly most effective cooperation with Clients. At the same time, the Board is building an organization that fosters its employees’ development – an organization based on an entrepreneurial and creative style of work. The profiles of individual Management Board Members have been presented below.

Norbert Biedrzycki

President of the Management Board

Norbert Biedrzycki is a graduate of the Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science of the University of Warsaw and the Faculty of Management and Finance of the Warsaw School of Economics. He also holds an MBA Thames Valley diploma. He started his professional career in Oracle Polska Sp. z o.o. in 1994, where He was responsible for, inter alia, developing of the business application department and introducing application products onto the market. He was also in charge of the implementation department. In 2002, he started working in McKinsey and Company Polska Sp. z o.o. While holding the position of the Junior Partner in Business Technology Office, he served clients from the telecommunication and high-tech sectors on the European market. On 2 March 2010, he was appointed the President of the Management Board of Sygnity SA.

Arkadiusz Lew-Kiedrowski

Vice-President of the Management Board responsible for Operations

Arkadiusz Lew-Kiedrowski is a graduate of the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology of the Warsaw University of Technology. He holds an MBA diploma of University of Chicago - Booth School of Business. He is a certified project manager and a member of the British Association for Project Management. He started his professional career in 1995 in Company Assistance Sp. z o.o.. In the years 1997-2002, he worked in Arthur Andersen Polska Sp. z o.o., where he was in charge of consulting projects connected with implementation of the IT systems in enterprises. From 2003, as the director of the insurance group in Andersen Business Consulting Mr Lew-Kiedrowski was responsible for consulting projects carried out in the insurance sector. In 2006, he was appointed director of the insurance group in Deloitte Business Consulting SA. In the years 2007-2009, he held the position of the President of the Management Board of Link4 and Link4 Life. On 30 March 2010, he was appointed Deputy Chief Operating Officer of the Management Board of Sygnity SA. He is also a Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Max Elektronik SA.

Magdalena Taczanowska

Vice-President of the Management Board responsible for Sales

Magdalena Taczanowska is a graduate of the Faculty of Management and Marketing at the Warsaw School of Economics. In 2003, she graduated from MBA studies at Wyższa Szkoła Biznesu National Louis University, and in 2005 - from Professional Sales Chartered Institute of Marketing; Cookham, Berkshire, Great Britain. In the years 2002-2003, she worked in Fujitsu Services Poland as the Sales Director and Member of the Management Board. Then, she started work in S&T Services Poland Sp. z o.o. In the years 2003-2010, she held in that company, among others, the following functions: Sales Director, Country Manager, Vice-President of the Management Board. She was appointed Member of the Management Board of Sygnity on 13 April 2011.

Ilona Weiss

Vice-President of the Management Board responsible for Finanse

Ilona Weiss is a graduate of the Department of Economic Sciences and Management of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. She is a member of the international Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and in 2010 was elected the President of ACCA Poland. She is also a member of the Financial Reporting Committee which, on behalf of the ACCA, gives opinions and advises the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the European Commission (EC). She is the project leader and co-author of Best Practice Guide for Audit Committees in Poland. Since 2009 she has been the Chair of the CFO of the Year Competition Jury. She started her professional career in 1992 in Bank Handlowy in Warsaw. In the years 1993–1996 she worked for Telekomunikacja Polska SA participating in preparing the company’s development and investment plans. In 1996 she joined the Alcatel group where she occupied managerial positions in a financial department. After a global Alcatel-Lucent merger in 2006 she became a financial manager. In the years 2008-2010 she was a CFO in Sage, where she was in charge of strategic and operational finance management of the entire group in Poland. On 2 July 2010 she was appointed to the position of the Vice-President, Chief Financial Officer of Sygnity SA. She is a Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Max Elektornik SA.

Krzysztof Ducal

Vice-President of the Management Board responsible for Sales

Krzysztof Ducal has been involved in the IT market for over 10 years. In the nineties, a member of the management staff of such companies as Johnson & Johnson Poland Sp. z o.o., Oriflame Products Poland Sp. z o.o. and SIRTI/ Telecom Italia Group. Since 2002, working for Siemens, first as Financial Officer of Siemens Enterprise Communications Sp. z o.o., and since 2004 as the General Manager CEO and President of the Management Board of Siemens IT Solutions and Services Sp. z o.o. Co-author of a proposal for implementation of the Integrated University Management System in Poland at the Warsaw University of Technology, the Jagiellonian University, the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University and the University of Silesia. In November 2011, he received the medal “Plus Ratio Quam Vis” of the Jagiellonian University. Participant of numerous international IT projects. Krzysztof Ducal has extensive experience in sales and project management, especially in the SME sector, as well as public and energy sectors. On 30 November, he was appointed to the position of the Vice-President of the Management Board of Sygnity SA. He is responsible for, inter alia, the Utilities Division.