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Mariusz Cezary Grendowicz
Aged 52, Mariusz C. Grendowicz is the CEO of Polish Investments for Development, the newly-founded Polish infrastructure sovereign wealth fund. A banker of almost 30 years, Mr Grendowicz started his international banking career in 1983, when he joined Grindlays Bank (subsequently taken over by ANZ Banking Group) in London. In 1991 – 1992 he worked at Citibank in London, following which he joined ING Bank, at which he held senior managerial positions in Poland (1992 – 1995) and in Hungary (Deputy CEO, 1995 – 1997). From 1997 until 2001, he was the Deputy CEO, and later the CEO, of ABN AMRO in Poland. From 2001 until the end of 2006, as the Deputy CEO of Bank BPH, the then third largest bank in Poland, he headed the bank’s Corporate and Real Estate Finance Division. From early 2008 until late 2010, he was the President and CEO of BRE Bank, the third largest bank in Poland. An independent director, sitting on a number of company boards, the Polish Aviva subsidiaries, Arctic Paper and Globe Trade Center among them, Mr Grendowicz read economics at the University of Gdansk and qualified as an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in the UK. |