The management board of PMPG Polskie Media S.A. with headquarters in Warsaw informs that on December 29, 2020, the Supervisory Board of the company adopted a resolution on the appointment, from January 1, 2021, of Mrs. Ilona Weiss as the president of the management board of PMPG Polskie Media S.A.
Since the announcement of the global COVID-19 pandemic, digital transformation for many companies - and often entire industries - has become a matter of whether or not to be on the market. Also, for our company, the current situation turned out to be an incentive to significantly accelerate the digitization process. The decision of the Supervisory Board to appoint Ilona Weiss as the president of the management board is related to the strategy adopted at the beginning of the year, aimed at the digital transformation of the PMPG Polskie Media Group.
Like many other companies that have taken up a similar challenge in the pandemic, we are still at the beginning of the process. We need to implement innovative (intelligent) technologies and business solutions. Realizing that the competitiveness of enterprises today lies in the area of efficiently operating IT systems, we invited to the cooperation an experienced technological partner. With the person of a new president, we gain digital experience, which will strengthen our brand by integrating innovative technologies and services, which will lead to working out competitive advantage, operational efficiency, and, consequently, the recognition of our company and brands around the world.
- Change is happening now - under the influence of digitization, and the media market is at a turning point. I am happy that I will be able to carry a holding company - operating on both the traditional and new media market - through the process of technological change and the challenges of the digital age as the president of the board of PMPG Polskie Media S.A. Today, media companies are becoming technology companies. While publications are produced in traditional form, there is a radical change in the model of press distribution - it will become completely digital in the coming years and key to the way the reader interacts with the content. I join the PMPG team, a company that is boldly and firmly focused on digitization. In my opinion, its additional advantages are its transparency as an entity listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, strength of owned brands, and the quality of the content created which with the right strategy makes it an entity even more attractive in the eyes of future Investors and Shareholders - says Ilona Weiss.
- The new president of the board of directors has held high management positions in companies for the last thirty years. She is an entrepreneurial and results-oriented leader with a business sense and the ability to transform activities and drive growth in a variety of markets as shown by many successfully completed projects. I found out about it personally while working together with Stanford University and UPTC in California. For several months, Ilona Weiss has been cooperating with the PMPG Team as a consultant, actively participating in the company's digital transformation. The world has become fast and digital today - so I'm glad that we can jointly learn from Ilona Weiss's international experience in our structures from now on as president. Her competencies which she has gained by working with technology leaders in Europe, the USA and Asia are key to expand our company's ranges through new, innovative distribution channels and partnerships as well as building our position and global ambitions. I am looking forward to work on development initiatives with such an experienced manager in whom I will have support- comments Michał M. Lisiecki - founder and majority shareholder of the company.
Ilona Weiss
She started her professional career in 1992 at Bank Handlowy in Warsaw. In 1993-1996 she worked in Telekomunikacja Polska SA, where she co-created development and investment plans. From 1996 to 2006 she held managerial positions in the finance department of the Alcatel group. Following the global Alcatel-Lucent merger in 2006, she took the position of a financial manager responsible for the post-merger financial reporting integration in Poland and consolidation. As Financial Director at Sage (2008-2010), she was responsible for finance strategy in Poland. She was the Group CFO and Vice President of the Management Board in Sygnity S.A. in 2010-2012. She was the Chairperson of the Supervisory Boardof Sygnity Europe Ltd. (2012) Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Max Elektronik S.A. (2010-2012), a Memberof the Supervisory Boards of the companies: Winuel S.A.. (2010), PB Polsoft Ltd. (2010-2011), Sygnity Technology sp. z.o.o. (2010-2011) and MCI Capital TFI S.A. (2013-2019). She was an Investment Partner in the MCI Capital group (2012-2014).
In 2012-2014, Ilona Weiss served as the Group COO and CFO and Vice-President of the management board of the ABC Data Group, in 2015-2016 she acted as the President of the Management Board at ABC Data Germany, and in the years 2015-2019 she was the Group CEO and President of the Management Board of ABC Data Group. Under her leadership, The ABC Data Group has grown to become a leader in the distribution of IT hardware in Central and Eastern Europe. In 2016, it generated the highest revenues in the entire IT sector in Poland, together with the highest IT hardware sales value (according to the ITwiz Best 100 report). In 2016, the company expanded its business proposition to include VAD services (Value Added Distributor). In the same year, it became the first official distributor of Xiaomi in the European Union. In the following year, it launched its own ABC Data Cloud platform, offering advanced IT services based on a cloud model, and in 2018 it became the exclusive distributor of Alibaba Cloud solutions in Europe.
Ilona Weiss is a graduate of the Faculty of Economics and Management at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, specializing in Financial Management. She also has the international ACCA financial qualifications (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants). In 2010-2013, she was the President of ACCA Poland, and she was a Member of the Corporate Reporting Global Forum. She also graduated from the Executive Program at the MIT Sloan School of Management in Artificial Intelligence Applications, at Harvard University in the field of Cybersecurity, and Harvard Business School in the field of Strategy Disruptive.
Since 2003, Ilona Weiss has been a Member of the international organization ACCA, GTDC (Global Technology Distribution Council) - an organization representing leading IT distributors (2015-2019), and a member of YPO (Young Presidents Organization), a network of CEOs with 27,000 members in over 130 countries (as of 2018) and as of 2019 - Business Center Club. She was a speaker at industry conferences: GTDC Investor Summit (Wall Street, Nowy York, 2015), GTDC Summit EMEA (Vienna, 2017), Global Women's Leadership Summit (Tokyo, 2017 and Sydney, 2018), Grow Your Business with the Best (Warsaw, 2017) and Technology Symposium (Stanford University, 2018 and 2019)
PMPG Polish Media
A holding company operating in the traditional and new media market. The Group includes, among others: the Agency Publishing and Advertising Wprost, publisher ofwprost.pl, e-weekly 'Wprost', and the company Orle Pióro, publisher ofdorzeczy.pl, the weekly 'Do Rzeczy'' and the magazine 'Historia Do Rzeczy'.Current information on the activities of the PMPG Capital Group is available can be found on thecompany's websiteas well as on its profiles onFacebookandTwitter.
Due to the constantly growing number of users belonging to the Group of websites, mainlywprost.planddorzeczy.pl, PMPG joined the Top 20 Internet publishers in Poland in spring 2020. With 9.4 million users (RU), PMPG is a clear leader in the category of websites related to opinion weeklies, with a 70% total share. Thewprost.plwebsite itself, No. 1 in this category, achieved over 24% coverage among all Polish Internet users, anddorzeczy.pl15.5%. (Gemius / PBI, November 2020).
Bieżące informacje ze spółki spółki PMPG Polskie Media SA (GPW: PMPG) na www.pmpg.pl oraz na profilach w serwisach Twitter: https://twitter.com/PMPG_PL i Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PMPG.SA.