Foundation Board

Since 2008 President of the Polish Organization of Commerce and Distribution which associates the biggest international retail and wholesale companies in Poland. Since 2000 till 2017 Director of METRO AG Representative Office in Poland representing METRO AG companies Makro C&C, Real and Media Saturn Holding towards state authorities, NGO’s and trade associations. Vice President of Employer’s Confederation Lewiatan. Vice President of the European trade association EuroCommerce in Brussels.

Since 2012 Chairman of the Central Eastern Europe Council, representing modern distribution channel of the CEE region towards EU institutions.

He has been associated with the Jeronimo Martins Group (the owner of the Biedronka network) since the beginning of his professional career (1999). He started working in the Finance Department. He was i.a. Director of the Controlling Department. Since 2010 in Portugal, where he became Financial Director and then Commercial Director in the Recheio network. After returning to Poland in 2016 – Financial Director and Member of the Board. On January 1, 2018, appointed as Purchasing Department Director.

He has over 23 years of experience in the field of retail, shopping and merchandising. For the first 10 years of his professional career – Purchasing Director at Auchan Polska. He devoted the next decade to work at Pepco Poland, first as Purchasing Director, then a Member of the Management Board, which he holds to this day. Since June 2017 – as Managing Director of Dealz CEE – he is responsible for launching and developing Dealz in Central and Eastern Europe.

Justyna Orzeł has over 20 years of experience in trade in the areas of human resources management, operations, marketing, trade and sales. She has been associated with Carrefour Polska since 1998, where in recent years, as the director of human resources, she has successfully created and implemented the HR strategy of Carrefour Polska. In his current position, he is responsible for the area of human resources, legal, external communication, strategy and transformation, quality, protection and CSR

Director of Brand, Customer Concepts, Data, Digital, IT at Auchan Retail Polska. She started working in Auchan in 1998 as a Financial Logistics Controller. In 2002-2010 as the Logistics Director. Then for 6 years she was the General Director of Auchan E-commerce Polska. In January 2017, she took the position of the Customer and Innovation Director at Auchan Retail Polska.

She has been passionate about new technologies for many years, using them to create added value for customers. She believes that apart from the trends and available technologies intuition and understanding of consumer needs are crucial to offer them unforgettable shopping experiences.