WOM&AN, Association for Women in M&A

📅 Save the Date! 📣 Join us on September 17th for the next WOM&AN, Association for Women in M&A event! 🔵  We’re thrilled to collaborate with outstanding partners: 30% Club Poland, Bain & Company and A&O Shearman (A&O Shearman Poland)! 🚀. 🔵 Be part of an engaging discussion on “What is success in M&A?”. 🔵 The event will be held in Polish and will offer diverse insights into our central theme. Stick around afterward for a lively networking session! 😎 ✨ Stay tuned—more details coming soon! ✨ #networkingevent #conference #WOMAN #MandA #WomenInBusiness #Networking #ProfessionalDevelopment #WOMANAssociation #stowarzyszeniewoman #mergersandacquisitions #networking #mna #stowarzyszenie #mergers #acquisitions

📢 Wakacje powoli się kończą. Zbliża się więc czas Back to business 💪 🤝 W 30% Club Poland wraz z naszymi instytucjami wspierającymi WOM&AN, Association for Women in M&A i A&O Shearman Poland oraz z Bain & Company w Polsce postanowiliśmy zapoczątkować ten sezon unikalnym wydarzeniem stacjonarnym. 👪 Różnorodność perspektyw i doświadczeń sprzyja podejmowaniu kluczowych decyzji na najwyższych stanowiskach. Jednym z takich tematów, z którym stykają się osoby zasiadające w zarządach i radach nadzorczych to kwestie M&A czyli fuzje i przejęcia. 📊 Z tego względu kolejne wydarzenie Klubu postanowiliśmy zagadnieniu „Czym jest sukces w M&A”. Wraz z praktykami i praktyczkami porozmawiamy o różnych perspektywach tego zagadnienia, od finansowej przez kulturową po prawną. Skomentujemy też kluczowe statystyki o M&A. 📖 Wisienką na torcie będzie możliwość wypróbowania wiedzy zdobytej podczas wydarzenia w case study. Oczywiście, nie zabraknie też czasu na networking ❗ 📌 Już teraz warto zarezerwować swój czas 17 września, wtorek, w godzinach 17.00-21.00 na nasze wydarzenie w Centrum Konferencyjnym ADN na ul. Grzybowskiej 56. Zapisy i szczegóły już wkrótce. Do zobaczenia ❗

🌟 We Dit It Again! 🌟 What an extraordinary evening! Our event at CRIDO office yesterday was filled to full capacity, and to top it off, we conjured a storm over Warsaw. There were a few lightning strikes, both inside and out! ⚡️The event kicked off with an electrifying introduction, unraveling the essence of #ESG and sharing insights from great minds in the field. Aleksandra Małolepsza and Aleksandra Czarnecka, who infused the session with humor, wit, and a few thought-provoking questions. The answers came in the form of a striking keynote speech by Roksana Kałużna-Bałazy, who captivated us with her discourse on "Bridging the Gap to a Sustainable Future: Understanding the Role of Transition Finance in Achieving Environmental Goals." Roksana Kałużna-Bałazy, your contributions to this domain are truly awe-inspiring! ⚡️As the storm raged outside, an equally intense and remarkable discussion ensued during our panel among: Beatriz Pavón Sánchez de la Blanca WTW, Tomek Kujawa Abris Capital Partners, Sylwia Wochal ING, Piotr Biernacki MATERIALITY, Aleksandra Czarnecka CRIDO. Opinions clashed, perspectives were exchanged, and not everyone agreed on the core theses concerning #ESG in our region- those who were there know what we mean 😉 Robert Sroka, we felt your presence in spirit! A heartfelt thank you to all members of WOM&AN, Association for Women in M&A who attended; your presence made it all possible! Special thanks to our operational mastermind Barbara Tekieli, our artistic and graphic support Natalia Leszczynska and Magdalena Kluczek, who meticulously managed the behind-the-scenes details. Of course, the invaluable support from Aleksandra Małolepsza, Aleksandra Czarnecka, and Adam Rajewski from CRIDO was crucial! A big thank you to our event partners: CRIDO and WTW! For those interested in supporting us in future events, we welcome you to reach out. It’s truly an exciting adventure and a great way to connect. And of course, we continuously invite you to sign up to our association: 👩💼 https://lnkd.in/dznpxGmy Together, we are making waves and sparking change! 🌟⚡️ Enjoy your holidays - see you right after! Photos: Tomasz Wilczkiewicz #WOMANevent #Sustainability #ESG #Leadership #TransitionFinance #Community #Networking #ThankYou

✨ We're Revealing Our Panelists! ✨ We’re delighted to finally unveil the amazing panelists for our upcoming #ESGevent on July 11th at the CRIDO Office. This promises to be an insightful and engaging discussion with some of the top experts in the field. Our keynote speaker will be the incredible Roksana Kałużna-Bałazy, Founder, Vice President of the Management Board, and Leader of the Legal Center of Sustainable Investment Forum Poland (POLSIF). Joining her, our distinguished panelists are: 🔹 Beatriz Pavón Sánchez de la Blanca, Head of M&A Western Europe, FINEX Global, WTW 🔹 Sylwia Wochal ESG Director, ING 🔹 Aleksandra Czarnecka Senior Associate, CRIDO 🔹 Robert Sroka Partner, Abris Capital Partners The panel will be moderated by amazing Aleksandra Małolepsza followed by an incredible networking session, basking in the beautiful sunset on the terrace. We WOM&AN, Association for Women in M&A love terrace events, especially after last year's fantastic experience! Join us to explore: 🍀 Is sustainability actually transactionally relevant, or is it just a buzzword? 🍀 Why should we care and commission ESG due diligence? 🍀 How could sustainability postulates influence a transaction’s rationale, and could ESG risks actually kill the deal? 🍀 What are ESG risks, why should we be concerned, and do we have tools to address them? 🌐 The event will be streamed online and conducted in English, so all our members, even those abroad, can participate! 📅 Date: July 11th 🕠 Time: 5:30 pm 📍 Location: CRIDO Office, Towarowa 28, Warsaw With limited spots available exclusively for our members, please secure your place by emailing: [email protected] 📧 (until July 5th at the latest). 🙋♀️ Become a member: https://lnkd.in/dznpxGmy We look forward to seeing you there for an evening of learning, connection, and a beautiful sunset!

✨ New Event Alert! ✨ We’re not slowing down! We are happy to invite you to our upcoming event!   Join us on July 11th at CRIDO Office for an engaging panel discussion on #ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) with outstanding guests in this field. We can already reveal that our keynote speaker will be: Roksana Kałużna-Bałazy, board member of Sustainable Investment Forum Poland (POLSIF).   #ESG is a buzzword that tends to pop up everywhere. The challenge to Milton Friedman’s claim that “there is one and only one social responsibility of business… to increase its profit”, or at least reshaping the way business is done, seems to come not only from EU legislation proposals or theories of academics from Western hemisphere, but even from business leaders and consumers.   Yet, it still seems distant, politicized and maybe even confusing from Polish businesses perspective.   At WOM&AN, Association for Women in M&A, we want to help. Join us to actively explore during the meeting:   🍀 Is sustainability actually transactionally relevant, or is it just a buzzword? 🍀Why should we care and commission ESG due diligence? 🍀How could sustainability postulate influence a transaction’s rationale, and could ESG risks actually kill the deal? 🍀What are ESG risks, why should we be concerned, and do we have tools to address them?   🌐 The event will be streamed online and conducted in English, so all our members, even those abroad, can participate!   📅 Mark your calendars for July 11th and prepare for an insightful discussion that will help demystify #ESG and its impact on business. 📍 We will gather at 5:30 pm at CRIDO Office in Warsaw (Towarowa 28). We look forward to seeing you there! With limited spots available exclusively for our members, please secure your place by emailing: [email protected] 📧 (until July 5th at the latest) Last, but not least, this event would not be possible without our partners – WTW and CRIDO. A very big thank you to them!   🙋♀️ Become a member: https://lnkd.in/dznpxGmy     #WOMAN #ESG #Sustainability #CorporateGovernance #Event #Business #Discussion #July11 #WOMANAssociation #woman #womeninbusiness #women #networking #networkingevent

It was a great AI meeting, full of inspiring discussions!   Special gratitude to Aleksandra Przegalinska, for the energizing speech on AI revolution and inclusivity aspects and Aleksandra („Ola”) Sroka-Krzyżak, Pauline Kwasniak, Mateusz (Matt) Lukasik and Marcel Animucki for the insightful panel on AI investment trends, deep-tech valuations and Fem Medtech angle.   I would like to also thank our WOM&AN team: Barbara Tekieli, Emilia Przychodzeń, Katarzyna Buda (Gierej), Irmina Kornacka, Anna Chrabota-Bajson, Natalia Leszczynska for your support in organization of this event!   Thank you to all WOM&AN, Association for Women in M&A members for your presence, ideas and talks! It was both an honor and huge challange to create and organize this event. Photos: Tomasz Wilczkiewicz #AI, #Acquisitions, #Investments, #VC, #PE, #Medtech, #Play, #Googlecampus

🌟 Thank you to everyone who was with us on Tuesday, June 11, 2024, in an inspiring Google Campus space to discuss "Is AI a Woman? Futuristic Vision of the Labor Market & Current AI Investment Trends" 🤖✨      Key takeaways which we got from our AI unique guests:  🎤 AI will not drastically change our work in M&A so quickly, but it's worth (already now!) doing our deal making smarter by cooperating with various AI assistants,   🎤 large players are more than willing to acquire AI competences and products, but good targets, brave to change and fly with a new, large partner, are in short supply,  🎤 valuing AI companies is much more difficult than in other industries, with the key focus on people and the uniqueness of their products,   🎤 FemTech companies are very attractive, and here in Poland we have a truly unique gem that successfully uses AI to change women's lives for the better, globally! Huge thanks to Prof. Aleksandra Przegalinska (Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego (Kozminski University)), Aleksandra („Ola”) Sroka-Krzyżak (Allegro), Mateusz (Matt) Lukasik (OTB Ventures), Marcel Animucki (bValue Fund), Pauline Kwasniak. Special gratitude to our moderator and co-organizer Joanna Ormińska! This event would also not be possible without our partners – PLAY and Grant Thornton Poland. 📢  Our next event will take place next month - stay tuned. Can't wait to see you all there! 🚀 ☛ Join the association for exciting opportunities, register here:  🔗 https://lnkd.in/ed5AAtvM Photo one & only Tomasz Wilczkiewicz #NetworkingEvent #MandA #AI #business #mergers #acquisitions #WOMANAssociation #womeninbusiness #networking #MnA

🌟 Friendly Reminder: Don't Miss Out on Our Event! 🌟  Hey WOM&AN community! 👋 AI event is coming!!! Please learn more about our awesome keynote speaker & panelists. 🎤 Prof. Aleksandra Przegalinska, our visionary special guest, will present her futuristic vision on “How AI will impact women's work and what opportunities/challenges it brings.” Do you already have your own ideas or vision? Questions to our guest are welcome :) 🎤 Aleksandra („Ola”) Sroka-Krzyżak who on a daily basis designs and implements Allegro’s long-term strategy, including AI solutions, based on her experience and perspective will elaborate whether it is better to acquire an AI solution or develop it organically. What’s your opinion on that point? 🎤 Mateusz (Matt) Lukasik, partner @ OTB Ventures Ventures and 🎤 Marcel Animucki, who serves as bValue Fund’s Principal, as experienced AI-focused investment professionals, will together dive into details of AI M&A deals sourcing and making, from trends to valuation and due diligence details. This is an exceptional investment opportunity in your approach to new, hot deals! 🎤 Ula Sankowska inextricably linked with the success of MIM Fertility, woman whom academic background in economics, combined with over 15 years of managerial experience, has resulted in a unique perspective will inspire us with her success story, but also navigate how to build an AI company and achieve international scale. Can’t miss it if you interested in building an AI unicorn!   ⏰ As we see that the event is very hot, we have increased the number of available places. Don't wait, register for the event and see the world colored by AI in a week!   🗓 June 11th 🕐 17:30 p.m. 📍 Location: Google for Startups Campus in Warsaw 🎤 Event will be held in Polish 🔗 Register here: [email protected] 📧 (until June 7th at the latest)   See you there! 🚀

On May 28, at the 1st Annual General Meeting of WOM&AN, Association for Women in M&A, our Members elected a new Board. It's hard to believe that nearly a year has passed since our Association was founded—time truly flies when you're having fun! We are pleased to introduce our new Board: Majka Rucinska, Anna Maria Jedrzejczak, Monika Nachyla, Ewa Zarnotal, Magdalena Kluczek, Joanna Ormińska, Urszula Swieczkowska, which will serve a two-year term, focusing on implementing WOM&AN, Association for Women in M&A's priorities. We are also delighted to welcome the new Audit Committee, comprising: Barbara Tekieli, Dorota Szczepanska, Malgorzata Badowska. We look forward to an exciting and productive term ahead! 🚀 As we face many challenges in implementing WOM&AN's priorities, we remain consistently open to suggestions, proposals, and cooperation opportunities. Thank you for the past months and all the projects and events so far. We promise that we are just getting started. ✨ 🔴 More information about AGM: https://lnkd.in/dqWyqYah 🔴 Join us: https://lnkd.in/dG2GPy6e

⭐New Event Alert! ⭐🎉 Dear WOM&AN Members, Are you interested in understanding the role of #AI in the investment world, exploring AI from a feminine perspective, or envisioning the future? Our event is for you! Join us for an eye-opening discussion on June 11th, at 5:30 p.m.: "Is AI a Woman? Futuristic Vision of the Labor Market & Current AI Investment Trends" 🤖✨ 🔶 Keynote Speech: 🎤 - How AI will impact women's work and what opportunities/challenges it brings – a futuristic vision by Prof. Aleksandra Przegalinska, Vice Rector at Kozminski University, Harvard University CLJE Senior Research Associate, & SwissCognitive | AI Ventures, Advisory & Research and #DigitalEU Ambassador 🌐👩💼 🔶 Panel Discussion led by Joanna Ormińska, Head of M&A @ PLAY: 🗣️ - AI & Business – How AI investments will transform companies. Is it better to acquire an AI solution or develop it organically? – Aleksandra („Ola”) Sroka-Krzyżak, VP Strategy & CorpDev @ Allegro 📈🏢 - AI & Investments – How to find an AI unicorn. PE/VC perspective on AI investments – trends, valuation, approach to #DD – #VC investors: Marcel Animucki, Principal @ bValue Fund, Mateusz (Matt) Lukasik, Partner @ OTB Ventures 🦄 - AI & Startups – How to build an AI company and achieve international scale. AI and its impact on our health – Success story of MIM Fertility – Ula Sankowska, Co-Founder and Co-CEO @ MIM Fertility 🌍👩⚕️ This event would not be possible without our partners – PLAY and Grant Thornton Poland. A very big thank you to them! 🙏 With limited spots available exclusively for our members, please secure your place by emailing: [email protected] 📧 (until June 7th at the latest) 🌐 Become a member: https://lnkd.in/dznpxGmy #NetworkingEvent #MandA #business #mergers #acquisititions #artificialintelligence #WOMANAssociation #womeninbusiness #networking