Rafal Petsch

Rafal Petsch is SendFriend's General Manager of its Polish subsidiary. He boasts over 25 years of experience working in the international banking sector. He started his career in 1994 in the Treasury Department of the Warsaw branch of ING bank. Afterwards, he spent 5 years with Bank of America Group, where, he co-founded the BOA Warsaw branch, held the positions of Chief Trader, Treasurer and Member of the Management Board. At BoA in London, Rafal was the head of the Exotic Currencies team, and later managed PLN currency positions at Citibank N.A. After returning to Poland, he was appointed Director of the Treasury Department at DZ Bank Polska. In 2004, he became Head of the Treasury and Investment Finance Department at the newly established Dexia Kommunalredit Bank. The remainder of his banking career was spent developing the Pekao S.A. group (Unicredit), the largest corporate bank in Poland. Since 2009, he has held the position of Managing Director of the Financial Institutions and Public Sector Department, Managing Director of the Strategic Clients Department, as well as was a member of the Management Board of Pekao Investement Banking S.A. He was also the head of two strategic projects (Go Poland and Agromania), and was an active member of the banks credit committee. Since January 2021, he has been a Managing Director at Ipopema Securities. Rafal is also one of the founding members of PLUS Connector - a platform that supports innovative US companies with their expansion into Polish and European Markets. He also holds a Board Member position at Sendfriend Polska Sp.z o.o. He is a graduate of INSEAD, as well as the Warsaw School of Economics.