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Artur Racicki – an entrepreneur with 16 years of experience in leading tech businesses. Supports and develops socially engaged companies that improve the quality of life through innovation and deal with the issues in the current world. He has co-founded three companies: Social WiFi, delivering smart WiFi solutions to over 1,000 businesses from different sectors across the globe; SEEDiA, creating eco-friendly products powered by renewable energy; and Social Kiwi – a digital marketing agency.
He graduated from MBA studies at Kozminski International Business School, the best business school in East-Central Europe, where he now teaches a course on the knowledge transfer of innovation from startups to corporations. He was awarded with the Kozminski Lion graduate of the year title in 2015. He was listed as one of the top 50 most creative businesspeople by Brief in 2015 and 2017. Experienced in dealing with investment funds, including VCs – closing an investment and sale of Sport24.pl, 4 investment rounds in Social WiFi and an investment round in SEEDiA. Has has worked with major companies from various sectors: retail (JLL, APSYS, HB Reavis, Skanska), hospitality (Sfinks Polska, Dominium S.A., Louvre Group), FMCG (Polmos Bielsko-Biała, Frugo), finance (ING Bank Śląski), media (ITI S.A., PMPG S.A., TVP) and telco (Orange, T-Mobile, Play). He has participated in Plug and Play Accelerator in Sunnyvale, Silicon Valley. His long-term goal is to focus solely on socially engaged projects, improving the quality of life through innovation or dealing with the issues in the current world.
Born on 26th March 1980 in Lublin. Including during his childhood, he spent over 6 years living abroad, visiting over 50 countries on 5 continents. Lives in Warsaw, father of 3.