Marcin Szymański Email & Phone Number

Kraków Area, Poland

Open Innovation House links corporations and venture capital funds with startups in organized and therefore effiecient way. The firm helps other companies in building efficient innovation ecosystem and external innovation models by adopting the right mind-set, strategy, tools and practices. So far we worked with and for numerous top-tier organizations, including:📱 Nokia💻 Oracle🪑 IKEA💱 Asseco🩹 Mentax 🚧 Indra💵 Mapfre🕸️ MobiledgeX... and more (attached)Also for state owned companies and public / european agencies ⚒️PGNiG🚀 PARP (#AMI, #Connect&ScaleUp)🧑‍🚀 PFR (#SzkołaPionierówInnowacji)🔑 EIT Digital🇺🇸 Cambridge Innovation Center🌳 KIC-Cliamate🐉 Krakow Technology Park🦄 Unicorn Hub... and more (attached)What's more, we help universities as well, e.g.:🧲 AGH University of Science and Technology⚖️ Jagiellonian University in Kraków🌿 University of Agriculture in Kraków🚅 University of Silesia in Katowice... and more (attached)That's not everything yet, we publish a lot, e.g.:📦 Corporate-Startup Synergy Sprint🃏 MVP Cards📗 Corporate Innovation Playbook📰 Manager Report... and more (attached)As a Co-Founder I'm involved in all Open Innovation House's activities.

Unicorn Hub is incubation program. An initiative designed to support the development of new startups through a comprehensive set of activities. Unicorn Hub provides a range of services, including mentoring, training, access to a network of industry experts and investors, and even financial support to help early-stage companies grow and scale.Together with other innovation experts, I co-authored an incubation program that was accepted for implementation by the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development (PARP) with the highest score among all the proposals submitted by other organizations.In the Unicorn Hub incubation program, I'am responsible for ensuring that the foundational plan we have built is implemented, for facilitating workshop collaboration with all startups, and also for individually mentoring some of them.The program will incubate a total of 270 startups.

Kraków, Woj. Małopolskie, Polska

In my role as a Workshop Facilitator, I had the honor of guiding international students in the practical aspects of setting up and running a startup. Drawing on my entrepreneurial background and teaching skills, I provided hands-on learning experiences that demonstrated the steps from ideation to startup operation.My workshops focused on crucial elements like creating and testing business models, building a Minimum Viable Product (MVP), and conducting business experiments. I emphasized the importance of agile thinking, encouraging students to validate their ideas through iterative testing and customer feedback.As an educator, my goal was to impart not just theoretical knowledge, but to foster an entrepreneurial mindset. My approach was rooted in real-world applicability, bridging the gap between academic concepts and their practical implications in the ever-changing world of startups.Through interactive sessions, I nurtured problem-solving skills, encouraged creative thinking, and promoted a learning environment that appreciated failure as much as success - as both are essential components of the startup journey.

#StairwAI - Helping out European SMEs & Startups in fining AI assets, experts, knowledge, hardware resource providers and much more and what's the most important making sure the the companies make the most of it when composing AI-enabled business models.#I4MS - Helping out European SMEs & Startups through one of the key initiatives of the European Commission to shape the pan-European network of Digital Innovation Hubs in expanding the digital innovation of its manufacturing processes.

In my role as a Startup Development Expert, I crafted practical workshop frameworks that enabled innovators to take crucial steps in their entrepreneurial journey. These workshops were designed to not only inspire innovation, but also offer hands-on guidance for creating and testing a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) in a real customer environment.I meticulously constructed these workshops to serve as a road map, guiding the participants through the nuances of MVP creation, customer validation, and iterative refinement. My goal was to foster an environment that encouraged bold ideas, rapid prototyping, and crucially, learning from customer feedback.

Lublin, Lubelskie, Poland

Unicorn Hub is as platform created especially for early-stage founders, having nothing more that game changing idea – any sort, any technology, any application, any market… and the proper understanding that it is far too less to succeed.What are the odds for growing word-wide, game-changing, market-crushing, huge-impact Unicorn in Unicorn Hub? Rather low. But, following the incubation program, the one that’s driven by subject-experts creates great opportunity for creating profitable businesses disrupting the local landscape and creating space for something bigger and greater to happen in the future.

Lublin, Lublin District, Poland

W Medwise wykorzystuję swoją wiedzę, doświadczenie oraz network do tego, aby pomagać startupom medycznym przechodzić od punktu A do punktu B. Tak szybko i sprawnie jak to możliwe.

Rzeszów

Setting up and kicking-off Rzeszów’s open data-sharing portal where anyone - citizen, business owner, researcher or developer- can access datasets relating to its capital, helpful in understanding the city and developing solutions to its problems.

I dedicated myself to fostering an environment where startups, coaches, mentors, and workshop facilitators collaborated seamlessly. My primary role was to ensure that all involved parties worked hand in hand to maximize the development speed of the startups we supported.I served as the central point of coordination, bridging gaps between stakeholders and facilitating effective communication channels. In the fast-paced world of startups, my expertise in project management, combined with my understanding of the entrepreneurial landscape, allowed me to create an ecosystem conducive to rapid growth and innovation.The goal was always to equip startups with the tools, connections, and insights they needed to thrive in their respective industries. Seeing them grow and succeed served as a constant reminder of the impact of our collective efforts, and I'm proud to have been a part of their journey.

Cracow, Lesser Poland District, Poland

Helping startups to setup and render fruitful collaboration with corporations. Maximizing the effects of short-term projects. Improving the odds of changing pilot implementations into post-pilot, long-term cooperation. Advocating for open innovation model and its outcomes. Working with:🪑 Vox📎 Werner Kenkel💊 Voxel🏗️ Warbud👷‍♂️ Lafarge Holcim🦾 Astor... and more (attached)

Rzeszow, Subcarpathian District, Poland

Rzeszów, Woj. Podkarpackie, Polska

Managing team of internal auditors (4 members) and coordinating services rendered by external parties to make sure that Sarbanes–Oxley Act and other corporate requirements are met by P&WC business unitsManaging P&WC SAP-centric project implementation and making sure that P&WC SAP security transformation is finalized (including tools transformation, users deployment and supporting activities)Leading P&WC’s project assurance function and making sure that significant implementations of P&WC IT projects are adequately assured Sustaining open communication and efficient relationship with other P&WC teams, vendors and consultantsPreparing and delivering reports to P&WC ControllerBeing point of contact and consultant for business units in all internal control matters

Ul. Hetmańska 120, Rzeszów, Poland

Regular activities:o Driving and sustaining constant development and improvement of GRC activitieso Determining business units compliance with policies, procedures, standards and law regulationso Supporting business units in meeting Sarbanes–Oxley Act requirements. Verifying content and completeness of SOX documentation; communicating requirements for documenting and testing business process key controls; being point of contact and consultant for business units in all internal control mattersProject implementation:o Implementing a new approach to SAP Security management. The new concept is based on ‘Tier methodology’ and Security Weaver tools. The scope of work covers entities located world-wide, various SAP modules and more than 12.000 employees. Setting-up new corporate SAP Security Process that reflects the changesProjects assurance:o Supporting implementation of IT projects (especially those SAP oriented) by serving tools and knowledge to project teams to assess and mitigate business risks.

Ul. Hetmańska 120, Rzeszów, Poland

Forecasting costs of production and assembly & test units on high level of details on weekly basis, based on fixed/variable model and KPIs. Forecasting the size of accruals that has to be made for costs of poor quality for production, services and assembly & test units. Controlling costs of development projects on high level of details.Other duties as per the list below.

Ul. Hetmańska 120, Rzeszów, Poland

Conducting trainings of MS Excel usage (formulas, functionalities, tools, tricks) for finance department.

Ul. Hetmańska 120, Rzeszów, Poland

Analyzing and controlling costs, preparing costs reports for existing production, services, assembly & test units and for units that are in the phase of forming.Monitoring results of production, services and assembly & test units (incurred costs, basic hours, deliveries, performance, overtime).Monitoring of other KPIs (headcount, costs of poor quality, costs of scrap, repair and rework, support & recoveries, attendance, absenteeism).Delivering various reports, on time and error free, on different level of details, to internal clients.Posting recurring journal entries based on information received from business, posting accruals and recharges based on own calculation.Participating in budgeting process by preparing costs projections for the upcoming year, inputting data into BPS system, preparing reports to summarize and to compare the previously entered data.Creating new and improving existing reports; searching for new solutions to streamline reporting process – both on business request and as own initiative, by the means of knowledge and skills of VBA, MS Office and abilities to use external sources of data as SAP and BW.Supervision over tools inspection schedule, monitoring movements of these that are overdue.

Kraków, Woj. Małopolskie, Polska

Designing and implementing tailor made market-entry strategies for both start-ups and grown-up businesses.Leading the team of professionals that make the best use of theirs knowledge, experience and business relationships in order to push companies to market success.Staying perfectly in-between private businesses and state business support organizations to see both perspectives and to deliver realistic solutions for internationalization.

Rynek Główny 6, Kraków, Poland

Maintaining Payment, Internal Control and Investment Control process.

Rynek Główny 6, Kraków, Poland

Supporting colleagues from Finance Department in day to day activities.