Sygnity

Who we are

We are a reliable long-term partner for public and private organizations.

For the last 30 years, we have been actively participating in the digital transformation of the Polish economy and public administration. The Experience we gained during that time and our deep understanding of both technology and business processes make us a reliable partner for future challenges for both public and private organizations.

Our main scope of activity is software production, implementation and maintenance, infrastructure and application integration and IT consulting. 

We believe that in today’s fast-changing environment our clients deserve much more than just IT tools. Every day we help companies use technology to build a long-lasting market advantage and support public administration to form solid foundations for digital government. 

Since 2022, we have been part of Total Specific Solutions (TSS) group, a word leading software provider for vertical suppliers. As its platform for growth in this part of Europe, we focus on building a group of independent software providers, supporting critical business processes for our clients.

Comprehensive support

Consultancy – production – implementation – maintenance – outsourcing

30

years on the market

26

years on the WSE

400+

current projects

700

high-profile professionals

Mission & values

Expertise

We combine business, industry and technological knowledge.

Experience

We work for the largest companies and the most important public institutions in Poland.

Flexibility

We adapt solutions to specific customer needs.

Responsibility

We implement and maintain key systems for business and government.

About TSS

Total Specific Solutions is an international group of IT companies that provides and develops critical software for vertical markets.

TSS consists of companies that operate in the segments of health care, state administration (including central and local government administration), financial industry, real estate, education, retail and many others. TSS in Europe employs over 5,000 specialists who create and maintain smart, user-friendly and effective solutions for its customers.

Being a part of Topicus.com Inc., a public company listed on the Canadian TSX Venture Exchange, TSS belongs to an ecosystem created over 30 years ago by Constellation Software Inc. (CSI). The CSI philosophy is a combination of organic development and growth through acquisitions. Overt the years, it has resulted in building an international group of several hundred independently managed IT companies and generating above-average returns for its investors.

History

The Management Board

Maciej Różycki graduated in Finance and Banking from the Warsaw School of Economics and the Berlin School of Economics and Law. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and holds a security clearance for access to classified information with the “secret” clause. Maciej Różycki served as Portfolio Manager at TSS Europe B.V., where he was responsible for acquiring investments, executing transactions and integrating acquired companies into the Group from 2020. Prior to joining TSS, he was Chief Investment Officer at Value Quest from 2015 to 2020. On behalf of the fund, he was, among others, on the management board of TTcomm S.A., a Polish satellite service provider, and was responsible for operational and financial restructuring and investment exit. Earlier, in the period 2011-2015, worked as an Investment Manager in Warsaw Equity Group, he was responsible for transaction execution and ownership supervision over the fund’s portfolio companies. In the period 2008-2011, as an investment analyst at Trigon Brokerage House (Trigon Dom Maklerski), he worked for TMT companies. Since 23 February 2021, Maciej Różycki has been a Member of the Supervisory Board of Simple S.A. As of May 16, 2022, he was appointed to the Management Board of Sygnity as President of the Management Board.

Maciej Różycki

President of the Management Board

Mariusz Jurak

Vice President of the Management Board

Mariusz Jurak is a graduate of the Faculty of Economics at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin. He holds the MBA diploma from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He has completed several certified training courses in sales and IT project and program management.

He has been with Sygnity S.A. since the beginning of his IT career – he joined the ComputerLand S.A. team (currently Sygnity S.A.) in 2001. He is an experienced manager who has significantly influenced the market position and development of the company’s Banking and Finance Sector, being responsible for almost 16 years for project implementation, development of the product offer and cooperation with customers from this sector. While being promoted he held successive key positions at Sygnity. As Managing Director of the Banking and Finance Sector he was responsible for the implementation of the largest projects executed for the strategic customers of the Sygnity’s Banking and Finance Sector.

As of 19 May 2017, he was appointed to the Management Board of Sygnity as a Member of the Management Board, from 25 March 2019 he serves as Vice-President of the Management Board responsible for the Banking and Finance Sector, Public Sector (from December 2019) and Utilities Sector (from January 2022). 

Since 26 November 2019, he has been the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Sygnity Business Solutions S.A. (since 12 July 2019, Member of the Supervisory Board of Sygnity Business Solutions S.A.).

Monika Zientarska holds a degree in economics from the Warsaw School of Economics (Wyższa Szkoła Ekonomiczna w Warszawie); she also completed postgraduate studies at the University of Science and Technology in Łódź (Politechnika Łódzka) in the field of Cost Controlling and Financial Result and postgraduate studies in IFRS at the Warsaw School of Economics (Szkoła Główna Handlowa) conducted in cooperation with the EY Academy of Business. She also holds a professional qualification in the field of accounting office management, certified by the Accountants Association in Poland.

Monika Zientarska has more than 20 years of professional experience in the field of finance and controlling, including 15 years in the IT industry. She has developed her career in multinational corporations such as Ferrero, Nestle Waters and Alcatel-Lucent. She joined Sygnity 12 years ago as a member of the team responsible for the development of business controlling and supervised the Company’s two largest business sectors. She was a member of the teams working on the Company’s key financial projects, such as the restructuring process and the obtaining of refinancing. She has been managing the finance and tax department and stock market reporting as Accounting and Financial Reporting Director since July 2018.

As of 1 September 2023, she was appointed to the Management Board of Sygnity as Member of the Management Board for Finance.

Monika Zientarska

Member of the Management Board
for Finance

Other members of the Management Board

Dorota Beksińska

Managing Director, Public Sector

Dorota Beksińska graduated from Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Sociology, specializing in Social work. She also completed postgraduate studies in Social Economy in the Małopolska School of Public Administration of the Cracow University of Economics.

Her professional career started in 1993 in the Provincial Office in Cracow, in the Regional Team of Social Help, where she worked as the Head of the Social Help Department until 1996.

She has been connected with Sygnity (ComputerLand at the time) since 1996, starting as a  Project Manager and subsequently progressing through the ranks to PMO Deputy Manager in Cracow, Deputy Project Director of Trainings, Client Manager, Sales Director and Sales Managing Director in Public Sector.

Currently she is the Managing Director of Public Sector.

Beata Drzewicz graduated from the Faculty of Foreign Trade at the Academy of Commerce and Law (now Lazarski University), finishing her master studies at the Faculty of Economy. She completed postgraduate studies of Company Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration,  at the University of Warsaw.

She has been professionally associated with Capital Group Sygnity since 2001, holding the following positions: Head of the Management Board Office, Director of the Management Board Office, and now Director of the Management Board Office and Ownership Supervision of Sygnity.

Within the Sygnity Group, she has fulfilled the following functions: member of the Supervisory Board of Sygnity Business Solutions S.A. (from 2012 to 2018), member of the Supervisory Board of Geomar S.A. (from 2012 to 2020), member of the Management Board of Enhandel Sp. z o.o. (from 2014 to 2023), proxy in Sygnity International Sp. z o.o. (from 2012 to 2015), member of the Board of Directors in UAB Baltijos Kompiuteriu Centras with headquarters in Vilnius (from 2012 to 2014), Vice-President of the Supervisory Board in Dolnośląska Szkoła Bankowa Sp. z o.o. with headquarters in Lubin (from 2012 to 2013). She is currently a member of the Managemet Board of Sygnity Business Solutions S.A. (since October 1, 2018) and member of the Supervisory Board of Sygnity Holding International Sp. z o.o. (since 2023).

Beata Drzewicz

Proxy; Director of the Management Board Office and Ownership Supervision; Member of the Management Board of Sygnity Business Solutions S.A.

Adam Larysz

Managing Director of the Utilities Sector.

Adam Larysz is a graduate of the Faculty of Automation, Electronics and Computer Science at the Silesian University of Technology, as well as the “Management” development program at ICAN Institute and Harvard Business School. He has completed a number of certified training courses in IT business management, leadership, sales and IT project and program management. He is an expert on IT solutions for the Energy and Utilities sector and has co-authored a number of articles and concepts for IT solutions for the Energy and Power Market.

He has been associated with the Sygnity Group since 2003 (at that time ComputerLand S.A. and Winuel S.A.), performing the functions of a coordinator of a part of the largest IT implementation in Poland and as a solution architect. Then he was a solution architect of key implementations in the Polish power industry, awarded several times in the “most interesting of the best implementations in the industry” competition. For the last 10 years he has been supervising strategic projects on behalf of Steering Committees, specializing in complex implementations for new customers. Since 2013 he has been the Director of the Asset Management Business Area and in the following years he successfully developed other functions and business areas of the Utilities sector.

As of October 1, 2022, he serves as Managing Director of the Utilities Sector.

Janina Korzeniewska graduated from the Faculty of Production Engineering at Warsaw University of Technology.

She has been involved in the IT industry for over 17 years. Her professional career started at Apexim, where she dealt with Baan ERP class system implementation in the years 1997-2000. In 2001, she joined ComputerLand, where she was in charge of implementing ERP Oracle EBS software while also managing a team of consultants. Since 2006, her focus has been  on building centralized competence in the area of ERP systems (Oracle EBS, SAP, MS Axapta, IFS) and BI competence. Since 2012, she has also been responsible for SOA solutions and since 2014, for CPM class solutions.

On 27th July 2015, she was appointed President of the Management Board of Sygnity Business Solutions S.A. (Max Elektronik S.A. before the name change).

Janina Korzeniewska

President of the Management Board of Sygnity Business Solutions S.A.

The Supervisory Board

Ivo van den Heuvel

Chairman of the Supervisory Board

Mr. Ivo van den Heuvel serves as General Manager of TSS Eastern Europe. He has been involved in software companies since 2004. He joined TSS in 2007, where he held various financial functions in different TSS business units. Since 2018, he has been actively involved in expanding the reach of TSS in various geographical regions. Since 2022, as CEO, he is responsible for the further development of TSS’ business in the CEE region.

Mr Ivo van den Heuvel studied at the University of Technology in Eindhoven and obtained a Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering and Management Science in 2003. He obtained his CMA (Certified Management Accountant) certification in 2016.

Ramon Zanders

Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board

Mr Ramon Zanders is Managing Director at Topicus.com and CEO of its subsidiary Total Specific Solutions (TSS), where he has been responsible for the group’s operations and investment activities in the Netherlands, Scandinavia, DACH and CEE regions since 2014.
Previously, between 2011 and 2014, as General Manager at TSS, he was responsible among others for the dynamic development of the Romanian company Yonder. Before joining TSS in 2011, he held management and board positions in software and consulting companies in the Netherlands, USA and Thailand.

Ioana Corutiu

Member of the Supervisory Board

Ms Ioana Corutiu graduated from the Faculty of Economics of Babes Bolyai University in Cluj Napoca, Romania, where she obtained a Master’s degree in Banking and Stock Markets. She holds an EMBA degree from the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. She has completed several certified trainings in financial valuation and business mentoring.

For over 8 years she worked as CFO at Yonder, part of TSS, which is a professional IT services company with over 350 developers in Cluj Napoca, Romania. During this period, she designed an effective and efficient finance function to support the scalability of the business across strategic options, with a focus on corporate governance, economic strategy and forecasting as areas responsible for ensuring the organisation maintains consistent revenue growth by monitoring industry forecasts, improving budgets and aligning marketing strategies. As a member of the leadership team, she developed financial strategies and plans to support the company’s goals. In 2015, she joined the financial leadership team of TSS, actively involved in due diligence and M&A projects of VMS companies in Europe. She has conducted more than 25 due diligence projects in Sweden, Finland and CEE and has successfully managed the acquisition and integration of 11 companies over a period of 5 years, as well as building the organisation in two countries for future scalability. Since 2021 she is the CFO of TSS, taking the next step to expand the group’s regional growth strategy through financial and business transformation to accelerate growth with efficient capital. She is responsible for formulating effective and stable financial strategies.

Raimondo Eggink

Member of the Supervisory Board, Chairman of the Audit Committee

Mr Raimondo Eggink graduated in theoretical mathematics from the Jagiellonian University in 1994, where he obtained his PhD in 2010. Since 2002, Mr Raimondo Eggink has been independently running consulting and training activities for entities operating on the financial market.

Mr Raimondo Eggink sits simultaneously on the supervisory boards of the following public and private companies: Skarbiec Holding S.A. (since 2017), Sygnity S.A. (since 2016), Suwary S.A. (since 2015) and PERŁA – Browary Lubelskie S.A. (2004-2005 and since 2008). In the past, he was a member of the supervisory boards of: Stomil-Olsztyn S.A. (2002-2003), Giełda Papierów Wartościowych w Warszawie S.A. (2002-2008), Wilbo S.A. (2003-2005), Mostostal Płock S.A. (2003-2006), Swarzędz Meble S.A. (2004-2005), PKN ORLEN S.A. (2004-2008), KOFOLA S.A. (2004-2012, previously HOOP S.A.), Zachodni Fundusz Inwestycyjny NFI S.A. (2006), Firma Oponiarska Dębica S.A. (2008-2012), Netia S.A. (2006-2014), Lubelski Węgiel “Bogdanka” S.A. (2012-2015), Górnośląskie Przedsiębiorstwo Wodociągów S.A. (2015-2016), AmRest Holdings SE (2010-2016), Zespół Elektrociepłowni Wrocławskich KOGENERACJA S.A. (2009-2019), PKP Cargo S.A. (2015-2019), Prime Car Management S.A. (2015 2020).

Previously, Mr Raimondo Eggink was a member of the Management Board, Chief Investment Officer, President of the Management Board and most recently Liquidator at ABN AMRO Asset Management (Polska) S.A., an asset management company for Polish institutional investors and wealthy individuals, which closed in 2001. Mr. Raimondo Eggink started his professional career in 1995 at the Warsaw branch of ING Bank N.V. where he played a significant role in the establishment of the first asset management company in Poland. He received his investment advisor license in March 1995. In the years 1995-1997 he served as Vice President of the Council of Brokers and Advisers. In 2000 he was awarded the CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) title by the AIMR association (now the CFA Institute) and in the years 2004-2013 Mr Raimondo Eggink served as a member of the Management Board of the CFA Society of Poland.

Mr Raimondo Eggink has published numerous articles on the development of the Polish capital market, especially on the protection of minority shareholders. At the eighth “Supervisory Board Conference” in Dąbrowa Górnicza, he was awarded the title “Corporate Governance Man 2018”.

Lucas de Ponte

Member of the Supervisory Board

Dr. Lucas de Ponte has been Director of the Legal Department at TSS Europe B.V. since January 2021. Since October 2021, he has also served as a Member of the Management Board of Forsikringens Data Center A/S, based in Ballerup, Denmark. From 2018 to 2020, he served as Senior Legal Counsel M&A at Körber AG (a global technology group headquartered in Hamburg). From 2015 to 2016, at SEAT, S.A. and Volkswagen-Audi España, S.A., subsidiaries of Volkswagen AG, he was responsible for crisis management, litigation, civil and administrative matters. At the same time, as an attorney at Cuatrecasas (a Spanish law firm), he advised companies in the DACH region on M&A transactions, financing and restructuring. From 2013 to 2014, he also served as a lawyer at Gleiss Lutz (a German law firm) in M&A transactions and corporate matters.

Dr. Lucas de Ponte graduated in 2010 from the University of Trier, Germany, with a Master’s degree in Law and a specialization in corporate law. In 2013, he was admitted to the profession in Germany after completing two years of legal training (Practical training) at the Higher Regional Court of Berlin. In 2015, he was also admitted to the legal profession in Spain after taking the state exam at the Ministry of Justice in Madrid, Spain. In 2022, he defended with distinction his dissertation on corporate restructuring and bankruptcy under the laws of Germany, Spain and the European Union, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Christoph G. Paulus, LLM (Berkeley) at Alexander von Humboldt University of Berlin.

Rafał Wnorowski

Member of the Supervisory Board, Member of the Audit Committe

Mr Rafał Wnorowski studied at the Faculty of Business and Administration of PWSBiA. He improved his managerial skills at ICAN Institute Harvard BR within the Personal Leadership Academy programme. He completed a number of training courses in management.

Mr Rafał Wnorowski has many years of experience in managing organisations and running key projects. He is an expert in sales to the public and private sector. Mr Rafał Wnorowski began his professional career at Bank Zachodni WBK S.A., where in the years 1999 – 2004 he worked as a specialist in the Department of Electronic Payments and Sales.

In the period from 2002 to 2004 he held the position of Sales and Marketing Manager in Usługi Finansowe Sp. j. In the years 2004 – 2007 he served as Sales Director at Wapro Sp. z o.o. (Asseco Poland S.A. Group), and in the years 2007-2010 he served as Sales Director in Asseco Business Solutions S.A. (Asseco Poland S.A. Capital Group). From 2010 to 2015 he was associated with the SIMPLE Group, where, as Vice President of the Management, he was responsible for sales and marketing and expansion of the SIMPLE Group. From September 2015 to February 2016, he served as Vice President of the Management Board of CUBE.ITG S.A., where he was responsible for the commercial division, sales support and marketing. On February 16, 2016, he was appointed President of the Management Board of SIMPLE S.A., taking oversight of the vision and strategy of the Simple Group and the areas of: sales and marketing, external communication, information security, business solutions, partner and investor relations. Since 2017 Member of the Supervisory Board of Sygnity S.A. Since 2017 Member of the Supervisory Board of EQ System.

Przemysław Aleksander Schmidt

Member of the Supervisory Board, Member of the Audit Committee

Mr Przemysław Schmidt graduated with honours from the Faculty of Law at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań in 1987. He passed exams for judges and legal advisors. In 1991-1992, under the Fulbright Program, he studied at Hastings College of the Law (University of California). He completed postgraduate programmes at Georgetown University, Leiden University and TMC Asser Institute (AsserCollege Europe). He has received a number of training courses in finance, strategy and business psychology and is the author of a number of publications on economic issues. Mr Przemysław is also a certified executive coach (INSEAD).

Mr Przemysław Schmidt began his career as an assistant at the Chair of Civil, Commercial and Economic Law at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (1987-1992) and as a legal advisor at the law firm Sołtysiński Kawecki & Szlęzak (1990-1995). In the years 1995-1996 he held the position of Managing Director of the Polish operations of MeesPierson, an investment bank from the ABN AMRO group, and in the years 1997-2000 he was Vice President of the American company @Entertainment Inc. – the largest cable and satellite TV operator in Central and Eastern Europe and the first company from the region to be listed on NASDAQ and President of Wizja TV (within the capital group).

From 2001 to 2013, he was a Founding Partner and Chairperson of the Supervisory Board of TRIGON Dom Maklerski S.A., and from 2017 to 2020, he served as a socially appointed President of the Court of Arbitration at the Lewiatan Confederation. In 2016-2021, he was a shareholder and member of the Management Board of GetFresh Sp. z o.o. – producer of Dar Natury water. Since 1999 he has been a member of Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO), where he also served as the Chairman of the European Board (2007-09). 

Mr Przemysław Schmidt is an active member of supervisory boards.