Advisory Board | ICENTIS Corporate Solutions

The Advisory Board is an auxiliary body supporting ICENTIS Corporate Solutions in the matters of strategy and key decisions.

Christopher K.B. Brotchie

Senior Advisor /Investment Committee/ Board Member in numerous private equity funds, entities, institutions. Private equity funds: Baring Private Equity Group, Baring Asia (Hong Kong), Baring Vostok (Moscow), GP Investments (Sao Paulo), SWICORP Intaj II Fund (Riyadh). International investment institutions and associations: Pacific Pension Institute (San Francisco) and Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (Washington). Board member: Bolero PLC (Londyn), Firmdale Holdings Ltd (London) and Hollybau GmbH (Essen)
During his tenure Baring Private Equity Partners a grew into a global firm with USS 2 billion of funds under management and a portfolio of over 200 companies across 29 countries
In 2002 the Private Equity International Magazine named him among the 50 most influential people in private equity in Europe.

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs (1993-95), Minister of Finance (1992) in Poland, and Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Poland (1989-91)
Presidential Candidate in Poland in 2000 and 2010
Founder of the Civic Platform – a centrist political party created after the 2000 Presidential elections in Poland
Member of the Supervisory Boards of Citibank Handlowy, Euronet, Layetana Developments Polska, MCI Management
Member of Advisory Committee of ACE, Citigroup Europe, Textron and Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund
European Deputy Chairman of the Trilateral Commission, member of European Council on Foreign Relations, Member of Authority: Centre of the Advancament of Women Foundation, Stefan Batory Foundation, Social-Economic Society, Member of the Board by Royal Summer Residence of king Stanisław August.

From 2012, Jacek Poświata is the Managing Director of global consulting company Bain & Company in Poland and Central Europe
From 1992, Jacek was an advisor at McKinsey & Company, in Denmark (1992-1995), then in Canada (1995-1996), and from 1996 in Poland and CEE. From 1995 he was a Director (Senior Partner) and in 1999 he became a Partner at McKinsey. During all his work at McKinsey, he was Managing Director of McKinsey Poland, Leader of the Private Equity and Strategy Division in Eastern Europe (2008-2012), Member of Worldwide Personal Evaluation and Election Committee for Southern Africa, the Middle East, the United Kingdom and India (2003-2012) and Leader of the Telecommunications Division in Eastern Europe (2000-2005)
He has wide experience in telecommunication area, mining & oil industry, energy, aviation industry and private equity
He graduated from Warsaw School of Economics in 1987 and has an MBA degree from Columbia Business School, New York
Jacek Poświata currently serves as member of the Supervisory Board of KGHM and member of the Polish Business Roundtable.

Co-Founder of Rice & Dore and Head of the Global C-Search Practice overseeing a team of consultants based in London & New York
Mr. Rice founded Rice & Dore with Charles Dore in 1997, and the business has now grown to be one of the leading financial services executive search firms operating from offices in London, New York and Hong Kong
Works with a number of the worlds largest private equity groups and hedge funds and helps them source leaders from the corporate world for their portfolio companies
Previously he helped build Rice & Dore’s Global Equity Practice into one of the leading players in the market place and worked on a wide variety of senior appointments all over the world.

Managing Partner of Weil Gotshal & Manges Warsaw office law firm; legal advisor widely recognized as an outstanding specialist in general corporate law, mergers and acquisitions and securities regulations. Chambers Global has repeatedly ranked Mr. Rymarz as one of the finest Corporate/M&A specialists
He advised financial and strategic investors in Poland’s largest privatization processes and private equity transactions, as well as assisted in the restructuring processes of many leading Polish capital groups (i.e. UniCredit CA IB Polska, PHZ Bartimpex, PKN ORLEN, Polskie Górnictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo)
Mr. Rymarz has extensive experience representing issuers and underwriters in public and private offerings and has advised Polish companies in connection with international securities offerings
Apart from pitting in Advisory Board of ICENTIS Corporate Solutions, Mr Rymarz is also the member of the Management Board of Polish Lawyer Employers and Vice-president of Polish Business.