Economist at CEDI Sp.zo.o
Kraków Area, Poland
- Current
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- Economist at CEDI Sp.zo.o
- Co-founder at Inhibi
- Past
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- Economist at Panhydro Sp. z o.o.
- Financial adviser at Self-Employed
- Project manager at Eurohost Sp. z o.o.
- Web Developer / Project Coordinator at 17mm
- Hostel Manager at Hostel Service Sp.j.
- Graphic Designer at Mirage Interactive Sp. z o.o.
- Education
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- Uniwersytet Jagiellonski w Krakowie
- London School of Economics and Political Science, U. of London
- Connections
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- Industry
- Renewables & Environment
- Websites
Michał Gancarski’s Summary
Independent, broad-minded and entrepreneurial spirit who after many turns found the right way to manage his career and personal life. Strong at creative thinking and synthesizing data from many sources. Passionate about economics, political science, management science and business theory and practice. Wants to develop his analytical skills and attain real financial independence (to shell himself from financial and political risks) by growing his own business in the future.
Michał Gancarski’s Experience
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Economist
CEDI Sp.zo.o
(Privately Held; Renewables & Environment industry)
March 2009 — Present (9 months)
CEDI Sp. z o.o. is in close business relationship with my former employer, Panhydro Sp. z o.o. My duties are mostly the same as they were in Panhydro:
* preparing financial analyzes of forthcoming projects
* researching electricity market structures in Europe and in The USA
* monitoring current and expected market prices for energy, energy derivatives and green certificates in Europe and in The USA
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Co-founder
Inhibi
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
January 2009 — Present (11 months)
This is a SaaS startup project, we are preparing to register the company. Here is a quote from our executive summary:
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Inhibi is building an affordable yet powerful document and process management service that is delivered over the Internet, mainly to small and medium companies. We strive to provide our customers with secure tools that are available 24 hours a day from every device connected to the Internet. Our services lower management costs and bring new ways for companies and individuals to manage their operations, making documents they use and exchange secure and readily available regardless of their current location. During the first stage of development the revenue is to be obtained from regular subscription fees.
Later in the process additional income is going to be received by
providing software platform allowing other vendors to built their own applications on top of the services offered by Inhibi or created by third parties.
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Economist
Panhydro Sp. z o.o.
(Renewables & Environment industry)
March 2008 — March 2009 (1 year 1 month)
Due to relatively small size of the company this position involves many responsibilities, most important of which are:
* preparing financial analyzes of forthcoming projects
* monitoring current and expected market prices for energy, energy derivatives and green certificates (this also involves reporting on market trends and financial and political changes regarding European support for renewable energy sources)
* identifying economic and financial risks for current and future operations
* exchange rates negotiations for currency transactions -
Financial adviser
Self-Employed
(Insurance industry)
May 2007 — March 2008 (11 months)
I treat this period as an introductory phase to what I wanted to do for couple of years, namely directing my career towards economics and finance. During this time I worked for two companies, one of which was an insurance agent and the second one - a financial multiagent, serving individuals rather than companies. I got what I wanted - an opportunity to learn to work in a more client-centric way and detailed knowledge about the way most popular financial products work.
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Project manager
Eurohost Sp. z o.o.
(Internet industry)
March 2007 — June 2007 (4 months)
This position revolved around a single project. Eurohost created a concept, prepared client needs analysis and graphic design for a social website for Polish community of snowboarders. It can be found on http://www.space4u.pl, although the look of the site has been transformed since Eurohost worked on it.
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Web Developer / Project Coordinator
17mm
(Internet industry)
March 2006 — September 2006 (7 months)
I started my employment at 17mm as a web front-end developer, working with HTML, CSS and ActionScript code. My position evolved into something between project coordination and account management. It was not official, I just happened to be the spiritus movens behind many small changes like bug fixing process reorganization, version control system implementation and account management standardization.
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Hostel Manager
Hostel Service Sp.j.
(Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)
June 2005 — August 2005 (3 months)
As the manager of a newly opened summer hostel my responsibility was to ensure that the facility started operating smoothly and remained this way during whole summer. My team consisted of two receptionists and our reception was opened 24/7 so I assumed the role of the third one.
This position was an exceptional experience in many aspects. First, the managerial layer was quite new for me. Second, keeping up with changing demands of almost one hundred guests speaking English with varying levels of proficiency and different accents was a very gratifying and challenging task. Third, we had to innovate as many "best practices" were still not there and we had to come up with our own. Finally, my team and I had no previous experience in this industry but this did not stop us from being one of the better performing hostels in the company. -
Graphic Designer
Mirage Interactive Sp. z o.o.
(Computer Games industry)
July 1999 — April 2000 (10 months)
This position was more of a high school introduction to the labor market than a full-time employment. My responsibility was creating most of the visuals for a science-fiction game titled "After". At the time I used to be quite deep into computer graphics so I just started working with the development team the same moment I was proposed to do so. Unfortunately, the game was canceled. However, the experience of working long hours and meeting tight schedules or the acquired knowledge on how not to manage projects remained with me. At least I could learn on somebody's else mistakes!
Michał Gancarski’s Education
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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski w Krakowie
Mathematics 2003 — 2004
I studied mathematics for only one year so this is not a finished degree.
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London School of Economics and Political Science, U. of London
Mathematics & Economics 2008
I study Mathematics & Economics through the University of London External System. This course is prepared and assessed by London School of Economics staff.
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Michał Gancarski’s Interests:
political thought, social sciences, economic theory, financial markets, energy markets, general systems theory, mathematics, new technologies, modern music, novel, science-fiction in every available form, snowboarding, table tennis, badminton, roller skating
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