PwC appoints six Advisory partners in Poland and Russia
The European division of Big Four firm PwC has appointed six new Advisory partners in its Polish and Russian organisations.
The six partners bolster PwC’s Advisory division, which houses the firm’s services in management and digital consulting (‘PwC Consulting’), corporate finance and mergers & acquisitions (PwC Deals) and forensics (‘PwC Forensics’).
In Poland, Maciej Kroenke has become a partner in PwC’s Strategy practice. He joined the Big Four firm at the start of 2016 from a boutique Polish consultancy specialised in pricing and revenue management. Previously, he worked as a consultant for Simon-Kucher & Partners and held several roles in pricing in industry. At PwC, Kroenke leads the firm’s services in the area of revenue management with a focus on pricing, promotions, sales excellence, customer loyalty and digitisation of commercial functions.
Piotr Rudzki has been appointed a partner in the Valuations & Economics team, which is a service line within PwC Deals. He re-joined PwC in 2017 following an eight-year spell in investment banking, having previously served the accounting and consulting giant for four years. Warsaw-based Rudzki specialises in corporate finance, business valuations, financial models and M&A services.Sixteen years after starting her career at PwC, Katarzyna Podgórna has now been admitted into the firm’s leadership ranks. She is a partner in the Capital Markets and Accounting Advisory Services arm, leading a team which develops and implements solutions to improve processes within finance departments, with a focus on the financial services industry. Interrupting her tenure at PwC Poland were two external stints – one at rival EY (five years) and a 12-month secondment at PwC in the UK.
Part of the Financial Services industry group, Łukasz Żochowski has been tasked with expanding PwC’s Advisory services to banks and insurance groups, among others. He has been with PwC for his entire career, and has grown into a specialist in risk management services for financial institutions, including risk analytics/modelling, risk-IT implementations, regulatory & compliance and remediation topics. He is a leader in the firm’s CEE-wide Risk Management group.
Maciej Przybyłowski is a partner in PwC’s Financial Crime Unit, which helps financial institutions battle the growing threat of financial crime, including the likes of anti-money laundering, terrorist financing, bribery and corruption, market abuse, and insider dealing. He joined PwC in 2016, after serving among others telecom group Orange, GE and local Polish banking subsidiary Bank BPH, and Citi. Przybyłowski has been tasked with developing PwC’s financial crime offerings domestically and in the region.
Meanwhile, in Russia, where PwC has over 2,600 professionals working across offices in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ekaterinburg, Kazan, Rostov-on-Don, Krasnodar, Voronezh, Novosibirsk, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and Vladikavkaz, PwC has appointed Olga Maydanik a partner in the firm’s Deals wing.
Maydanik joined PwC in Moscow in 2009 after serving the Russian arm of Deloitte for five years. At PwC Deals, she supports clients with M&A and transaction services, with a focus on transactions in the energy, oil & gas and transport & logistics sectors. Maydanik holds a Master of Economics from Moscow’s Lomonosov State University.