Marcin Piróg is a manager with over 25 years of experience in leading large companies and a specialist in building strong, motivated, growth-oriented organizations and achieving excellent financial results.
He is a graduate of the National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine in France, has an MBA degree from INSEAD in France and completed Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in USA.
He began his professional career at TOTAL company in France, where he managed production, investments, and quality control. The next stage of his career was to implement the development strategy for the E. Wedel company (then a part of PepsiCo), where he took over the position of General Manager of the Confectionery Category. After PepsiCo pulled out of the confectionery market, he led the process of the sale of the company to the Finnish company, Leaf.
As the Company CEO of Leaf Polska, and Regional President for Central and Eastern Europe, and then as a member of the Executive Board of the entire Leaf Group, he created and developed a strong organization that has achieved a leadership position in selected countries of the region.
From 2000 to 2008 he was running Carlsberg Polska. He carried out the reorganisation of the company, managed the acquisition of three regional breweries, and brought the company back to sustainable profitability. Carlsberg became one of the three most powerful players in the Polish beer market.
Up until September 2010 he was a proxy of, and the CEO of RUCH S.A. Thanks to the negotiations of trade terms with key suppliers, the implementation of sales targets and reduction of operating costs, the company improved its financial condition, which significantly raised its value and made its speedy privatisation possible.
He speaks three foreign languages fluently: English, French, and Spanish.
Marcin Piróg is 51 years old, has three children. His passions are travel, good food and wine, and sport, especially football (as a player and a fan).
Zbigniew Mazur
Member for Financial and Economic Matter
Zbigniew Mazur is a graduate of the University of Warsaw’s Faculty of Journalism and Political Science. Prior to this, he studied at the former Central School of Planning and Statistics, now the Warsaw School of Economics. He also completed a post-graduate course of study in Banking and Finance at the University of Gdańsk’s Faculty of Management and obtained a stockbroker’s licence, being one of the first people in Poland to do so.
He began his career in banking, working first in the Brokerage Office of Bank Inicjatyw Gospodarczych BIG SA and then going on to become a director and Management Board Member at Dom Maklerski Instalexport SA, a brokerage house. In June 1999, he became director of the Brokerage Office of Polski Bank Rozwoju SA. Following its takeover by BRE Bank, he was appointed a vice-director of BRE Brokers, where his responsibilities included the supervision of international transactions. In July 2000, he became Chairman of Dom Inwestycyjny BWE SA, a financial services house. This was followed by a stint at the IT company, Optimus, first as Investments Director and then as a Member of the Management Board, with responsibilities which included financial affairs, obtaining financing, and restructuring. In August 2005, he moved to Struktur & Management Polska, the Polish arm of Germany’s leading consultancy company, where he served as President of the Management Board for three years, handling consultancy work regarding restructuring and capital market transactions for the largest of companies.
His connection with LOT Polish Airlines SA was forged in 2008. He began by fulfilling the function of director of the Management Board Office, becoming Chairman of LOT Services Sp. z o.o. in August 2009. His implementation of numerous measures for recovery and his delineation of a development strategy for the forthcoming years, a strategy which included initiating an expansion into the regional airports, meant that the company, established on the basis of the unprofitable LOT Ground Services, is today a profitable enterprise and one of interest to potential investors. He can also claim as his success the negotiation of a new Collective Bargaining Agreement for over 1,400 thousand employees.
On 21st September 2010, the Supervisory Board of LOT Polish Airlines SA appointed him to the Company’s Management Board. As a consequence of this decision to appoint him to the LOT authorities, Zbigniew Mazur resigned from the position of Chairman of the LOT Services Management Board.
Zbigniew Mazur is 45 years old. He is married, has three children and is an enthusiastic traveller and diver.
Tomasz Balcerzak
Member of the Management Board. Area of responsibility: Operations
Tomasz Balcerzak has a wealth of experience in the aviation sector and in the field of running company operations projects.
He graduated from the Polish Air Force Academy in Dęblin, receiving the title of pilot engineer and went on to undertake post-graduate studies at the University of Warsaw and the Warsaw School of Economics, among others. His professional experience was gained with the 36th Special Aviation Regiment in Warsaw and several commercial organisations, including Centralwings and the FDS OPS and Flight Dispatch Services company. In 2009, he became Operations Director for the Enter Air charter airline.
From March 2001 to October 2004, Tomasz Balcerzak worked for LOT Polish Airlines. Amongst his responsibilities at the time were the coordination of a range of technical operational projects and the supervision of the restructurisation programme.
LOT Polish Airlines’ new Member of the Management Board speaks three foreign languages and, besides aviation, his interests include air transport economics, business and international relations.
Wiesława Musiał
Member of the Management Board of LOT Polish Airlines. Elected by the employees.
She is a graduate of SGPiS (Central School of Planning and Statistics) in Warsaw, now SGH (Warsaw School of Economics) and the Leon Koźminski Academy of Entrepreneurship and Management. She has many years' experience and extensive expertise in labour law, human resources management, controlling of labour costs, corporate finance as well as Polish and international accounting standards (US GAAP and IAS).
For 17 years she worked for Thomson Multimedia Polska taking active part in all stages of the company's transformation: privatization, initial public offering, Employee Stock Ownership Plan, formation of subsidiaries, establishment of the Central Financial Service for Thomson companies all over Europe. For two years she held the position of Business Controller and Acting Deputy Director of the Human Resources Office in PZU Group.
She has been working for LOT Polish Airlines since 2007. She was involved, among other things, in developing systemic solutions in the area of employment and compensation policy. She was one of the leading contributors to the work on amending the Collective Agreement and remuneration scheme for the staff of LOT's establishments abroad. In February 2009 she was elected by the company's employees as Member of the Management Board of LOT Polish Airlines. She is married and has two children: a daughter and a son.
