The Supervisory Board of Kredyt Inkaso S.A., upon the motion of the Management Board, changed the roles of people holding managerial positions in the Company. Barbara Rudziks was appointed as President and Maciej Szymański as Vice-President of the Company.
On 24 November this year, the Supervisory Board, at the request of the Management Board of Kredyt Inkaso S.A., appointed Barbara Rudziks to the position of President of the Management Board. Maciej Szymański, who until now has been holding the position of President of the Management Board, was appointed Vice-President. The role-switch is motivated by the need to make optimum use of experience and competence within the Management Board at the current stage of the company’s development.
Barbara Rudziks is an expert in managing companies from the financial industry, specialising in organisational transformation and process improvement. She has been working for Kredyt Inkaso since April 2020 as Vice-President of the Management Board. Since then, she has been continuously responsible for the company’s operational management, including management of acquired debt portfolios, operational transformation of the Capital Group, process improvement, efficiency increase, and operational activity effectiveness. Previously, she held the positions of president and vice-president of the management board in companies from the financial industry. For nearly a decade, she was associated with one of the leading companies in the debt management industry (BEST S.A.), where she served as Vice-President of the Management Board. Whereas before, she held managerial positions in an international banking institution (GE Money Bank S.A.) for 11 years. She graduated from the Gdynia Maritime University with a master’s degree diploma in enterprise management.
– I would like to thank the Supervisory Board for the trust it has placed in me. We have been growing up together for a long time to recommend changing roles within the Management Board. This demonstrates internal trust, understanding, and the ability to share responsibilities in a way that is, at this moment, the best for the organisation as a whole. This decision also confirms the foregoing good cooperation within the present Management Board and the willingness to continue it with the same personnel – said Barbara Rudziks, President of the Management Board of Kredyt Inkaso.
Maciej Szymański, as Vice-President of the Company, will retain responsibility for some areas of the company’s operation, and his key task will be to conduct the process of strategic options review, for which the company is currently preparing.
– During my over 20 years of experience as CEO, I have developed a strong conviction that business is all about making the most of the competencies, experience, and talents of individual team members for the well-being of the company. Four years ago, when I resigned from the position of Chairman of the Supervisory Board and was appointed to act as President of the Management Board, Kredyt Inkaso had a lot of potential, but it required many urgent changes while the market situation was quite difficult. Today, the Company is in a completely different place. To a large extent thanks to the work and commitment of Barbara Rudziks and her team, as for the past two years it was Barbara who was responsible for key areas of the Company’s development. – said Maciej Szymański, Vice-President of the Management Board of Kredyt Inkaso. – I am the architect of the current composition of the Management Board and I believe that Barbara taking over the reins in the Kredyt Inkaso S.A. Management Board is an optimal solution for our Company, so it was a natural thing to recommend it to the Supervisory Board. Of the areas in the company that still need to be improved, there is certainly the issue of sorting out the situation in the shareholder structure, and this task will continue to rest on my shoulders – added Maciej Szymański.
Barbara Rudziks is the first woman to hold the position of President of the Management Board in a debt management company listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. Kredyt Inkaso S.A. is also one of the few listed companies with an equal division of positions in the Management Board between men and women.
Kredyt Inkaso Group is reporting all-time high repayment levels. Throughout the financial year 2021/22, it reached the level of PLN 279 million, which is an increase of as much as 25% compared to the previous year. The amount of recovery per employee also increased by 25%. In the published financial report for Q1 of the financial year 2022/23 (in the case of Kredyt Inkaso for the period from 1 April to 30 June 2022), payments from debtors, in turn, reached PLN 79 million for the first time in the organisation’s history. The Group’s net revenue stood at PLN 56.5 million (+22% year-on-year) and cash EBITDA at PLN 47.4 million (+9% year-on-year). In the described quarter, the net profit amounted to PLN 14.7 million, which accounts for an increase of 125% compared to the same period of the previous year.
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About Kredyt Inkaso
Kredyt Inkaso was established in 2001 as a pioneer in the Polish market of debt management. Since then, it has been constantly supporting companies and entrepreneurs in the recovery process, cooperating with banks, lenders, insurers, and other entities from the consumer market. Kredyt Inkaso offers a wide range of services: from payment monitoring, through amicable debt collection, to court and enforcement processes.
Since 2007, Kredyt Inkaso has been listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, and in 2018 it conducted the first public issue of bonds. In its activity, the Company follows the principle that the process of debt collection should be as easy and intelligent as possible, but first of all, it should be ethical – which is confirmed by Ethical Audit Certificates awarded annually by the Association of Financial Enterprises in Poland. The Company also pays attention to the issues related to corporate social responsibility and therefore is involved in educational or pro-social undertakings, among others.
