Przemysław Pohrybieniuk the new Managing Director of the Kulczyk Foundation

Przemysław Pohrybieniuk (49) is an experienced leader with more than 25 years of experience in local and international companies as well as in non-governmental organizations. He was responsible for various aspects of management, marketing, business development, reputation management and social communication, in, amongst others – leaders in their industries: Danone (board member), PwC, BBDO (PR), Dentons, and social organizations such as the “Saving Kids with Cancer” Foundation (CEO) and ACCA (managing director for Poland and Baltic States).

- The Kulczyk Foundation’s mission is to fight for women’s freedom in the fields of awareness, body and being. I am dreaming of us to address the real problems women face effectively and support them in their own freedom and give them strength and tools to realize their own potential. Our main project is to tackle period poverty around the world. The research conducted on our behalf shows that over 500 million women in the world have problems to access menstrual hygiene products – WE need to change it! I am determined to introduce solutions in the coming years which will change this situation. That is why I am strengthening the foundation team – I have invited Przemek Pohrybieniuk, whose experience in the business world, combined with success in social activities, should give us a new vision and energy for action. I believe that Przemek will meet the challenges because he is an extremely experienced manager, a genuine leader, and, very importantly, a great and good man. I am glad that he will manage the current work of the Kulczyk Foundation. I believe that thanks to him the foundation will implement important philanthropic programs in the world. Welcome on board! – says Dominika Kulczyk, the president of the Kulczyk Foundation.

Przemysław Pohrybieniuk was a co-creator and leader of one of the most important social programs in Poland “Share the meal” – a program of socially engaged marketing and “Milk Start” – a product from the business area of social innovation.

Currently, he is also a Member of the Program Council of the Open Eyes Economy Summit in Kraków and a Board Member of Medical University of Wroclaw and “Saving Kids with Cancer” Foundation.

He is a graduate of the University of Warsaw (he graduated from the Faculty of International Relations) and the School of Management at the University of Bath (Great Britain - MSC). Married, father of three daughters.