Bio

Krzysztof Grzegorczyk is Sales and Marketing Manager with almost 20 years experience in creating marketing strategies in chemical, welding and other metal industries. He worked for for international companies to manage sales in Central-Eastern Europe. In the chemical sector, he created a marketing strategy and managed sales teams for Refrigerants and later also for Packaged Gases for the US company, Praxair. He successfully managed a transition from CFC’s to ozone friendly substitutes in the Polish market. In the metal fabrication sector, Krzysztof Grzegorczyk created and executed the sales and marketing strategy for the US welding company, Lincoln Electric as it was entering the Polish market. He managed the the company’s growth in Central-Eastern Europe by introducing new products, developing a distribution network, and growing sales and building the marketing team. He assisted in the acquisition of the Spawmet company, and implemented a multi-brand regional strategy. He is sales professional in the B2B sector. He has also a good understanding of finance and operations planning. Krzysztof Grzegorczyk was also instrumental in an important environment protection project as one of the creators of the Foundation for the Protection of the Ozone Layer. For many years he co-managed the Foundation while to help implement the Recovery and Reclamation project, that was critical for Poland’s meeting of the Montreal Protocol directives. He believes in a strong NGO’s role in the modern society and more human friendly world.