wojtek mlodziejewski

Expert at Polish Chamber of Commerce in the Netherlands

Bio Summary

He is a leader with specialist knowledge of the emerging markets & cultures along with extensive experience of leading some of the largest, most complex, high profile Mergers & Acquisition and restructuring projects ever undertaken in emerging economies of the CE Europe region. He has broad experience in economic and structural reforms, political process change, oversight of large takeover transactions and has identified several profitable investment opportunities for international investors in several sectors such as metal processing, mining, car industry, chemical industry, transport, food processing, textile and other consumer goods.

Wojtek has an MSc from the Warsaw University of Natural Sciences, an MBA from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa and has completed the Harvard University Program on Structural Reform, Corporate Governance and Privatisation. He is fluent in English, Polish and Russian and has varying competences in Ukrainian, Belorussian, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, Italian, Spanish, Slovak and Afrikaans.

Employment History

Expert

Polish Chamber of Commerce in the Netherlands

December 2013 - present

Warsaw, Poland

Polish Chamber of Trade & Industry (Poland) Have advised on investment feasibility, financing options and identifying business partners for agribusiness and food processing projects undertaken by Polish investors in Eastern ...see more

Adviser

Royal Commission For Jubail And Yanbu

April 2018 - November 2018

Yanbu Saudi Arabia

Royal Commission for Jubail & Yanbu (Saudi Arabia) Jubail is a city on the Persian Gulf coast of Saudi Arabia which is home to one of the largest industrial cities in the world, an area covering 700 square kilometres. It is also one of the key sites for Aramco, the Middle East's largest and the world's fourth largest petrochemical company. Yanbu is a port city on the Red Sea coast of western Saudi Arabia. The purpose of the Royal Commission is to develop and manage the cities and ports of Jubail, Yanbu and Jazan. This includes development of hubs for Mining and Minerals Processing, Food Processing, Chemical Production, the Automotive Industry and Multi-Modal Logistics services. The role encompassed identifying foreign investors and preparing the marketing program for the new ports and for the various industry hubs. • Identified and introduced leading global investors - Macquarie Bank (Australia), Hutchison Ports (Hong Kong), Royal VOPAK (Netherlands), KGHM Mining (Poland) - to the Chairman and Chief Executive of the Royal Commission. • Macquarie Bank wished to invest in the renewable industry on the Red Sea coast, VOPAK included the development of tank farms in Yanbu and Jazan on the agenda of their annual board meeting and Hutchison were interested in negotiating with the Commission and offered to enlist several clients into the developments. • Contributed to negotiations to develop elements of the Arabian Peninsula railway land bridge for the Port of Yanbu development which would avoid potential blockades of Hormuz, significantly reduced the transit time from Europe and the US to the Gulf and enable mineral deposits in the Arabian Peninsula to be unlocked. • Contributed at working party meetings for the design and development of the road transport infrastructure and road system for the multi-modal logistics hub. • Represented the Commission at the IMARC Mining Conference in Melbourne in November 2018.

Partner

VM Technologies

November 2012 - December 2017

Cape Town, South Africa

South African mining services company providing dust prevention, wood fire proofing, dust explosion prevention, fire-fighting technologies with a presence in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, and Mozambique. • Presen ...see more

Business Development Consultant

Crim Soyuz Centre, Simferopol, Ukraine

January 2011 - October 2013

Kyiv, Ukraine, 02000

The Commercial arm of one of the Institutes of Ukraine's Academy of Sciences. Developed the strategy for the commercial development of an alternative energy project: "Helio-Air-Pressure Tornado Electric Power Station". • Id ...see more

Project Manager

Ministry Of Energy & The Coal Industry Of Ukraine

March 2009 - June 2011

Kyiv, Ukraine, 02000

Invited to manage the largest EU technical assistance project in Europe and develop the strategy for Ukraine's coal mining sector. Included undertaking financial and technical evaluations of the mines and their infrastructure ...see more

Adviser

BCEOM

June 2007 - February 2008

Podgorica, Montenegro

BCEOM is a French based global engineering consulting firm. • Advised on the privatisation of Montenegro's railways which led to a new government-approved strategy. • Assessed the commercial potential of the country's t ...see more

Resident Advisor

World Bank & Government Of Serbia

August 2005 - August 2008

Belgrade, Serbia

Advised the Privatisation Agency of Serbia on the restructure and sale of major Serbian government-owned companies. Included setting the strategy and monitoring the most complex M&A projects financed by the European Union and ...see more

Project Manager

Department For International Development / Maxwell Stamp (Iraq)

September 2004 - November 2004

Baghdad, Iraq

(Iraq) Maxwell Stamp was an economics and business consulting company. Managed a structural economic reform project to support the Iraqi Government in developing and implementing pro-poor economic reform programmes with the ...see more

Project Leader

Government Of Kazakhstan / JE Austin Associates / Michael Porter LLC

June 2004 - August 2004

Almaty, Kazakhstan

Led the Competitiveness Cluster Development Project commissioned by the Government to formulate and execute strategies to develop the non-mining sectors of Kazakhstan's economy. • Managed the project team that established ...see more

Project Manager

Meinl Capital Advisors Investment Bank (Serbia)

October 2002 - December 2003

Belgrade, Serbia

Restructured and privatised four large holdings in socially owned metals processing, engineering, construction and manufacturing sectors. This was the first time in Serbia that social holdings were successfully dismantled and ...see more

Director

KPMG

October 2000 - December 2002

Kosovo, Croatia

As Head of Privatisation and Enterprise Development Directorates for the UN administration of Kosovo, oversaw the commercialisation and pending privatisation of all 450+ socially owned enterprises in Kosovo across all sectors ...see more

Project Leader

Maxwell Stamp

June 1999 - September 2000

Vilnius, Lithuania

The Phare program is one of the three pre-accession instruments financed by the European Union to assist applicant countries of Central and Eastern Europe in preparation for joining the European Union. Managed the restructur ...see more

Project Manager

Raiffeisen Invest Private Equity

November 1997 - March 1999

Sofia, Bulgaria

With Power of Attorney from the Government, restructured companies and their debts and orchestrated the privatisation of six of Bulgaria’s 26 largest companies. Included a copper mine, a group of 17 zinc and lead mines, two ...see more

Selected Project Experience

Project Description:

Wojtek has an extensive track record as an international project and program director (EU EAR, PHARE, TACIS; World Bank, USAID, DFID) with specialist knowledge of emerging markets and has led some of the largest projects financed by the donors in the Central & Eastern Europe. He was in charge of projects like the development of strategy for the Coal Mining Sector in The Ukraine, advising to the Privatisation Agency of Serbia, Structural Economic Reforms Project in Iraq, Privatisation and Enterprise Development in Kosovo, Shipping Project in Lithuania, Economic Reform assistance in Bulgaria, Privatisation in Armenia etc. Participated in preparation of the 2010 Ukrainian reforms program. Prepared the coordination of Ukrainian reforms project. Recently Wojtek was engaged as an adviser to the Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu in Saudi Arabia He is a leader with specialist knowledge of the emerging markets & cultures along with extensive experience of leading some of the largest, most complex, high profile Mergers & Acquisition and restructuring projects ever undertaken in emerging economies of the CE Europe region. He has broad experience in economic and structural reforms, political process change, oversight of large takeover transactions and has identified several profitable investment opportunities for international investors in several sectors such as metal processing, mining, car industry, chemical industry, transport, food processing, textile and other consumer goods. Wojtek has an MSc from the Warsaw University of Natural Sciences, an MBA from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa and has completed the Harvard University Program on Structural Reform, Corporate Governance and Privatisation. He is fluent in English, Polish and Russian and has varying competences in Ukrainian, Belorussian, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, Italian, Spanish, Slovak and Afrikaans.

Industry: Professional Services

Topic(s): Transactions

Education

Associate's in Economics

Harvard University

1998

Master's in Business Administration/Management

University of Stellenbosch

1989

Master's in Horticulture

Warsaw University of Natural Sciences

1981

Language Skills

Ukrainian English Polish Russian Bulgarian Afrikaans Italian French Serbian Lithuanian

Country Experience

Armenia Australia Austria Bulgaria Colombia France Georgia Germany Kazakhstan Lithuania New Zealand Poland Saudi Arabia Serbia Slovakia South Africa United Kingdom

Skills

Business

Conflict Management,

Value Creation,

Transformation Management Office,

Change & Implementation,

Strategy Execution,

Project Management,

Interim Management,

Business Development,

Business Case,

Business Planning,

Corporate Development,

Corporate Strategy,

Business Unit Strategy,

New Business Build,

Strategic Management,

M&A Strategy & Due Diligence,

Merger & Acquisitions,

Strategic Planning,

Economics, Policy, and Social Studies

Citizen Engagement,

City development,

Policy Development,

Economic Planning

Human Resources

Capability Development,

Leadership Development

Finance

Budgeting,

Investment Strategy,

Divestitures

Industry Experience

Principal Investors

Real Estate,

Private Equity