Our Team
We contribute our extensive experience, network and own money to become Spiritus Movens of international expansion of carefully selected tech companies.
Artur Banach
Movens VC, Partner
Michał Olszewski
Movens VC, Partner
Łukasz Pawłowski
Movens GE, Partner
Radosław Rejman
Movens GE, Partner
Wojciech Gorzeń
Movens GE, Partner
Maciej Kraus
Movens GE, Partner
Yaroslav Krempovych
Movens VC, Principal
Przemysław Jurgiel-Żyła
Movens VC, Investment Director
Ramon Jimenez
Venture Partner, Silicon Valley
Kamila Bobińska
Venture Partner, London
More about our team members
- A visionary, an experienced entrepreneur & investor (10+ transactions in tech industry)
- Responsible for evolving the company, from the largest Polish search engine into a unique ecosystem of adtech and martech companies – Netsprint Group (150+ employees). Its heart – the Netsprint Audience – is the largest Data-Coop in CEE and one of the biggest in Europe
- Extensive experience in scaling up different digital products internationally
- Realization of strategic goals through mergers (LeadR) and acquisitions (Whitepress, Adrino, Waytogrow).
- Apart from adtech, he is focused much on Artificial Intelligence, an international expansion of tech companies (eCommerce, fintech, SaaS and platforms/marketplaces). He believes that AI will change deeply business environment in coming years. Speaker, member of the IAB Europe Trading Committee
- 17 years experience in innovations comercializations venture capitalist & fintech entrepreneur; managed SkyCash (2009-2013) since unsuccessful PoC to a strong market leader of remote mobile payments market in PL (tickets for trains, urban transport, cinemas, parking fee collection, GSM top-ups, cardless cash withdrawals, p2p); 2nd in Deloitte Technology Fast CEE 50 for growth 2010-2014
- Led private equity investment at Opera AM (XII.2009-V.2013) with very high ROI and fast-growing SkyCash in portfolio
- Co-founed Business Angel Seedfund, invested in SkyCash(2007-2009)
- Created and run pioneering business angel network (LBA 2005-2007) and facilitated 8 investments including MEDICAlgorithmics
- Co-founded ConQuestConsulting, first Polish Junior Enterprise (1998)
- Creative business developer and dealmaker, advised on many VC and PE deals, deeply knows PL innovation ecosystem
- Managing Partner of Movens VC activity, is to lead fintech / b2b2c / patent-based projects
- 19 years of experience in corporate finance and investment management, both as manager, advisor and investor
- Long-time operating experience covering asset management, manufacturing and trade
- Responsible for operations and financial management at two fund management companies (Opera TFI and Skanska TFI) and two brokerage houses (Opera Dom Maklerski, Opera Kwiatkowski i Wspólnicy), over 8 years at executive boards in financial institutions
- Investment and restructuring team member at Hoesch Design takeover by Sanplast, co-manager of takeover and post-merger integration of SEB TFI by Opera TFI, co-investor in Netsprint MBO and successful exit
- Over 20 closed private equity transactions since 2003
- Polish Financial Supervision Commission licences investment advisor, ACCA Professional, MBA level lecturer, PADI OWSI
- Experienced investment banker, M&A advisor and investor
- 17 years of corporate finance experience and 15 years of M&A advisory experience – Ernst&Young Corporate Finance, CAG, Espirito Santo Investment Bank (currently Haitong Bank)
- Track record of 20+ closed M&A transactions, including exits to trader buyers, private equity placements, MBOs and mezzanine financing
- Since 2014 as business angel investor has sourced, fundraised and led several deals, including Netsprint (MBO, full exit in 2016), Packhelp (seed round – 2017), Fenige (seed round – 2017) and Salad Story (growth capital – 2017)
- Graduated from the Warsaw School of Economics as well as CEMS Master in International Management, studied at the Cologne University and at the MBO program of the Anderson School of Management at UCLA
- Passionate traveller, road biker and photographer
- 20+ years of experience in profit & performance improvement
- International expert in Pricing & Revenue Management
- Delivered profit improvement solution in multiple countries on 5 continents
- Headed end-to-end Pricing Solution for Global $14B corporation headquartered in Switzerland
- Delivered profit improvement of 200 basis points on average
- Real estate investor
- Lecturer on Strategic Price Management at International MBA
- 15 years of business experience – strategic consulting
- With extensive knowledge and experience with multinational companies (200+ projects)
- Expert in marketing
- Guru in pricing strategies
- Built a company (Fern Partners) and sold it to PwC
- Stanford MBA lecturer in pricing, PhD
- Member of the Advisory Board to StartX – an startup accelerator connected to Stanford University
- Angel investor (4 investments, 1 exit)
- Good networker – wide network with entrepreneurs and specific business experts
Yaroslav Krempovych
Movens VC, Principal.
- Experienced financier with 5 years of VC experience and track record of startup investments within ICT, AI, MedTech, CyberSec, Energy, and other sectors.
- Specializes in business modelling and assessment of investment projects, valuation of companies, financial modelling, portfolio value creation, and fundraising for the company’s future investment rounds.
- External expert in European Commission’s Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME).
- Lecturer and a Ph.D. Fellow at Kozminski International Business School, research interests – computational sociology, network analysis, and disinformation.
- 15+ direct investments (1 exit),
- 8+ years of VC and interim CFO experience in Enterprise software, AI, MedTech, CyberSec, Energy, and other sectors
- 4+ years expert for EIC,
- 3 years Assistant Professor at Kozminski University
Przemysław Jurgiel-Żyła
Movens VC, Investment Director
- Twenty+ years of experience in sales.
- 15 years of experience in building products and business.
- At Netsprint and Datarino, he provided solutions to the adtech, martech, fintech, and research market.
- He managed teams creating technologies of advertising networks, data warehouses, analysis of consumer behaviours (based on online and offline behaviours), and financial risk assessment.
- He has extensive marketing experience (artificial intelligence, machine learning, eCommerce, platforms, and marketplaces).
- For 11 years, he operates on the Industry 4.0 market in the Polish Chamber of Commerce for Electronics and Telecommunications (KIGEiT), where he successfully supports the Management Board as a supervisory board member.
- After hours: maker (founder and president of the Makerspace Warsaw Association) and podcaster (co-creator of the digital transformation podcast).
- 10+ years of experience in corporate advisory, revenue boosting, developing businesses and tech focused organisations
- Currently advises financial services companies coming out of Europe in investment and innovation opportunities, in fields of actionable-data, martech, adtech, sales-automation and machine-learning
- VP at Sublime, a French tech company, managing their North American business and expansion
- Worked for four years in the innovation and technology division of Business France – a French government agency – helping French companies expand internationally in San Francisco
- Law degree from Santa Clara University School of Law, Executive Program pursuing a Certificate of Business Excellence from UC, Berkeley / Haas School of Business
Kamila Bobińska
Venture Partner, London
- Kamila has 15 years’ experience in investing and advising Technology and technology-enabled businesses gained at blue chip financial institutions in London and Singapore.
- Most recently, she was a Partner at Argan Capital (Bank of America), where she focused on originating and managing Private Equity transactions in the Technology sector.
- Alongside her career in Financial Services, Kamila pursued her entrepreneurial interests both as a founder and angel investor. She is the founder of Alternative Insights (AI company specialising in providing insights for the sports betting businesses, sold to GVC) and Railay (software development houses across Vietnam).
- She also works as a Strategic Advisor to early-stage ventures in Europe and Asia in the fields of Enterprise Software, SaaS, Fintech, Blockchain, eCommerce and Social Commerce.
- Prior to Argan Capital, Kamila was a Director at Amakor Capital, an equity hedge fund focused on special situations and merger arbitrage, where she was responsible for sourcing and analysing investment opportunities.
- Prior to that, she worked as a Senior Vice President at Citigroup TMT M&A team, Doughty Hanson Private Equity, Deutsche Bank M&A and Royal Dutch Shell M&A team.
- Kamila holds an MSc in Marketing & Management from Warsaw School of Economics. She is fluent in Polish, Italian, French and Spanish.
We have gathered also a team of world-class experts & entrepreneurs, who as Advisory Board provide Movens Capital and start-ups with dealflow, unique insights during due diligence and business scale-up consultancy.