Polegio will have a new president. The supervisory board dismissed Krzysztof Pietrzykowski

The supervisory board of Polregio, the largest passenger rail carrier in Poland, dismissed the company's president, Krzysztof Pietrzykowski – Polregio spokesman Jakub Leduchowski told PAP on Tuesday. The duties of the president were entrusted to Aleksandra Grzywaczewska.

– The supervisory board of Polregio dismissed Krzysztof Pietrzykowski as president and at the same time entrusted the duties of the company's president to Aleksandra Grzywaczewska – said the spokesman.

As stated on the company's website, Grzywaczewska is a graduate of the Faculty of Economics of the Warsaw University of Life Sciences and postgraduate studies at the Warsaw School of Economics in the field of finance, accounting and business insurance. She completed the Executive MBA program run by the Gdańsk Foundation for Management Education in cooperation with the Association of Railway Employers and the University of Gdańsk.

In the years 2004–2014 she worked at the State Enterprise “Porty Lotnicze”, where she was responsible, among others, for: for managing the financial risk of investment projects and obtaining financing worth over PLN 1 billion. In the years 2015–2024, she headed the Polregio Finance Office.

In a statement sent to PAP, Krzysztof Pietrzykowski, who was dismissed from the position of president, said that the aim of his actions was to restore transparency in the company's operations, start rebuilding the rolling stock potential and prepare Polregio to operate in a fully competitive railway market.

In his opinion, Polregio today has stable foundations, potential and opportunities to effectively compete with other regional carriers in the coming years, ensuring a stable and attractive offer for passengers.

We have implemented a new management model, which translates into more effective work and real savings – added Pietrzykowski.

Polregio is the largest passenger railway carrier in Poland; its market share is approximately 25 percent. The majority shareholder of the company is the Industrial Development Agency (50 percent plus one share), and the remaining shareholders are provincial governments. Every day, over 2,000 cars take to the tracks across the country. trains, and on weekends over 1,450 trains ordered by marshal offices. In 2024, nearly 101 million passengers used the carrier's services. (PAP)

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