Marcin Kuśmierz

Marcin Kuśmierz is an experienced chief executive, entrepreneur and investor with over 25 years of professional experience in the technology, e-commerce, fintech, and AI industries. He began his career while at university, when he founded a regional web hosting company which was sold to home.pl. He then joined ITI Group, the largest media group in CEE, as head of research and development and director of mobile services, where he coordinated major development projects to enable the group to benefit from emerging technologies. In 2007, he joined home.pl as CEO and later as a shareholder, leading the company to the number 1 position in the web hosting and business apps categories in CEE, and subsequently selling it to Europe’s industry leader, IONOS. There he stayed on as CEO and was responsible for managing emerging markets and a large portfolio of SME applications. In 2021, he became the CEO of Shoper, successfully leading the platform to a debut on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, with an enterprise value of 65 times EBITDA. Under his leadership, Shoper achieved the highest growth of any e-commerce platform in Central and Eastern Europe between 2021 and 2024. At the beginning of 2025, he and Shoper’s other major shareholders decided to sell the company to a holding company of technology companies, Cyber_folks who valued the business at over PLN 1bn. In recent years, he has also successfully invested in payment, logistics, cloud and AI companies. Marcin is focused on building values-driven companies and believes a great culture is a fundamental enabler of any innovative company.