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Karol Zarajczyk is one of the youngest managers of Polish manufacturing companies, who can be proud of great achievements.
In 2004 he completed MA studies at the Faculty of Finance and Banking of Kozminski University
in Warsaw with specialisation in Capital Investments. He is a graduate of the Executive Training Programme (European Commission scholarship) of SDA Bocconi School of Management in Milan, the School of Oriental and African Studies University of London, SCIENCES PO Paris and Waseda University Tokyo Japan.
Immediately after the studies he started working as a financial specialist in POL-MOT Holding S.A., after one year he became the Executive Director and then also the member of the Management Board of Ital-Mot belonging to POL-MOT Group. In years 2008-2009 he was the Economic and Financial Director of POL-MOT Warfama, a company producing agricultural machinery, and in 2009 he became its Vice President. Since 2009 he has been the member of the Supervisory Board of Bioenergia Invest, which installs in Poland biomass production lines ensuring long sales contract for the biomass producers. In 2013 he became the President of Management Board of URSUS S.A. and he has been managing the company up till today.
The biggest professional success of Karol Zarajczyk was restoring the famous Polish brand URSUS
and creating a dynamically developing company producing not only tractors but also agricultural machines and currently also electric buses and trolleybuses. The restoration of the symbol of Polish industry was a great challenge and the operation of restoring the legend was successful thanks to his determination.
Karol Zarajczyk as an effective manager has been awarded a lot of prizes for managing his company for the last years. In 2015 he received PAIiIZ award for foreign expansion, the title of the Ambassador of Polish Economy of Business Centre Club, Lubelski Orzeł Biznesu 2016 and the title of the Top Employer of Eastern Poland 2015 awarded by Polskie Towarzystwo Wspierania Przedsiębiorczości.