My tu hahaha z Pekao SA ;) a najnowsze wydanie BusinessWeeka (edycja
europejska) zailczyla prezes Wisniewska (jeszcze z Polakow jest Wrobel
z Orlenu) do 25 gwiazd europejskiego managementu! :)


FINANCIERS
Hans Verkoren
Chief Executive, ING Direct, Netherlands

Judith Boynton
Chief Financial Officer, Royal Dutch/Shell Group, Britain

Valery Kargin, Viktor Krasovitsky
Founders, Parex, Latvia

Maria Wisniewska
Chief Executive, Bank Pekao, Poland

Mehmet Dalman
Member of Managing Board, Commerzbank, Germany

Manuela Ferreira Leite
Finance Minister, Portugal


Maria Wisniewska
Chief Executive, Bank Pekao, Poland

When Maria Wisniewska took over Poland's Bank Pekao five years ago, it
was little more than a disorganized jumble of four former state-owned
banks that had been merged by government fiat. Its computer systems
weren't compatible and it was grossly overstaffed, with 25,000
employees spread across 564 branches.

Feisty, forthright, and as articulate in English as she is in Polish,
Wisniewska quickly set to work melding the banks into a smoothly
operating unit. How? By "taking the best features from each bank and
integrating them into all of them," she says. Wisniewska slashed the
workforce to 17,800 and spent much of the proceeds of a $100 million
capital injection from the European Bank for Reconstruction &
Development in merging and upgrading the computer systems and
reorganizing the bank. In 1998, she oversaw the successful listing of
the bank's shares on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. It was largely
Wisniewska's dynamism that tempted Italy's UniCredito Italiano to take
a controlling stake in Pekao the following year. Today, Pekao is
Poland's most powerful financial institution, controlling one-fifth of
the country's banking assets. German insurance giant Allianz and the
EBRD are also major shareholders.

Wisniewska brought years of financial experience to the job. A
graduate of the Economic University in Poznan, she quickly rose up
through the ranks of Wielkopolski Bank Kredytowy, eventually becoming
vice-president. She then became president of Skarbiec, a mutual-fund
company. It was during her stint there that she came to the attention
of officials who were charged with creating Pekao and preparing it for
privatization.

Wisniewska, 43, has certainly met everyone's expectations. What's
more, her tough style and cost-cutting ways have made her a star with
Pekao shareholders -- especially the big ones in Munich and Milan --
who have watched the bank's stock price almost double since
privatization.

--
Michal 'Amra' Macierzynski
www.prnews.pl - swiat e-bankowosci