Since 2008 President of Polish Organization of Commerce and Distribution which associate the biggest international retail and wholesale companies in Poland. 2000 till 2017 Director of the METRO AG Representative Office in Poland representing METRO AG companies Makro C&C, Real and Media Saturn Holding towards state authorities, NGO’s and industry 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.

Marina has been since March 2021 part of the team in Poland, first as Market Area Manager and since 1 February 2022 as CEO and Chief Sustainability Officer. She joined IKEA almost 20 years ago in Russia as part of the HR team. She had various roles, her last job there being Country HR Manager for Russia. Later, she moved to Sweden to take the role of Assistant to Global Retail Manager and then continued as a Market Manager in Barcelona in Spain.

CEO of Lidl Polska, he has been with the company since 2002. He worked on the management board of Lidl Germany. Since 2020, he has been managing a team of employees in Poland. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Management at the University of Łódź and Justus-Liebig-Universität in Gießen.

Anna Sapota, Vice President Public Affairs Eastern Europe North, Ph.D. in law. At the TOMRA Group, she is responsible for shaping the Group’s position on relevant markets, in relation to legislative changes in the broad field of environmental protection and waste management, as well as maintaining relations with public administration bodies and market stakeholders in Eastern Europe North countries.

Nils Swolkień joined the DECATHLON group in 2004 and was the Chief Financial Officer of its company in Poland from 2005-08. Then he left the country in 2008 to gain experience in the international structures of the DECATHLON group. In France, he served as CFO Central & Eastern Europe and Head of Group Management Control. From 2015, he was CFO of DECATHLON for Asia, and two years later he changed his development path at DECATHLON and took on the role of Head of the Mountain Department in one of the shops in Singapore. For almost two years, he managed first the department and then the entire shop, until he took over as managing director (CEO) of DECATHLON in Singapore at the end of 2018. On his return to Europe in 2021, he started with the position of Chairman (CEO) of DECATHLON in Bulgaria. Since October 2022, he has been the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of DECATHLON in Poland as the first Pole heading the DECATHLON business on the Vistula River.