Robert Kalbarczyk

Robert is CEO of a global e-commerce and gaming marketplace, which he has led for more than six years — joining the group as VP of Business Development and taking the chief executive seat through growth, crisis and transformation. He runs Pachira's mandates personally.

Before that he spent six years at the Royal Bank of Scotland as Head of Operations, Strategy, Architecture & Change, working across Warsaw, Edinburgh, London, Dublin, Amsterdam and Dubai, and serving as Global Business Support Manager in a Global Leadership Team — more than seventy migration projects on a framework adopted bank-wide, a global PMO supporting over two hundred project managers, and delivery responsibility in the bank's £750m transformation programme. At Citi Europe he was Vice President in transformation portfolio management, taking thirty percent out of the cost base of an investor-services business in two years.

Between 2016 and 2025 he also ran a decade of independent advisory, closed at the end of 2025: business transformation for an international energy group, where his programme became the blueprint for a European roll-out; the strategic transformation programme of Poland's Ministry of Digital Affairs and its agencies, as Advisor to the Minister; and a disruptive-technology venture where he built a global network of investors and startups and took Poland's largest blockchain conference from idea to stage in two months.

His foundations are a decade in telecom — from project analyst to co-leading Poland's largest telecom project, the PLN 600m 3G roll-out that ended in the country's first video call — and volunteer service with the Project Management Institute, where he tripled the annual congress in Poland and authored PMP exam questions and their Polish translation. He has founded two companies and spent some fifteen years on the management and supervisory boards of commercial and non-profit organisations.

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