Piotr Bendykowski
Senior Strategy Adviser
Piotr Bendykowski – a McKinsey consultant and CEO who knows both sides of the table
Strategy · operational efficiency and Lean · restructuring · M&A and due diligence
More than 15 years in international consulting – at McKinsey, Accenture and KPMG – and more than 15 years as director, deputy CEO and CEO. He has run companies with more than 500 employees and sat on the supervisory boards of private and listed companies.
He specialises in rapid, significant growth in the revenue and profits of manufacturing and service companies – in Poland, Europe and the USA.
Experience
Adviser and manager in one
For more than 15 years he worked at international consulting firms – McKinsey, Accenture and KPMG – as well as smaller advisory firms. He led projects and teams ranging from one person to several dozen, often working with specialists from different countries.
For the following 15+ years he held director, deputy CEO and CEO positions and was a member and chair of supervisory boards. He ran companies with more than 500 employees and oversaw finance in organisations with more than 1,000 staff.
He knows strategy, finance, marketing, operations and IT. He has experience in mergers and acquisitions, PE and VC investments, due diligence, selecting and implementing IT systems, and Lean management. He has worked in Poland, Central, Eastern and Western Europe and the USA.
Education: Stanford University MBA (Arjay Miller Scholar – top 10% of the class), engineering degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (honorary member of Tau Beta Pi and Chi Epsilon), IB diploma from United World College of the Atlantic in the UK.
Areas
How Piotr helps companies
He leads projects in four areas. Below – what owners, boards and investors most often come to him with.
Strategy consulting
Direction and a plan for growing revenue and profits.
- Growth has slowed while competitors are speeding up
- Entering new markets – in Poland or abroad
- The board and owners disagree on direction
Operations consulting
Efficiency, Lean, costs and processes.
- Costs are rising faster than revenue
- Production or service is slow and error-prone
- There isn’t enough data to make decisions
Restructuring
Turning around a company in financial difficulty.
- The company is losing liquidity and results are deteriorating
- A recovery plan is needed for the bank or an investor
- Losses need to be cut quickly and the company stabilised
M&A and due diligence
Transactions, investors and pre-acquisition review.
- A planned purchase or acquisition of a company
- Raising a PE or VC investor
- An independent review of a company before a transaction
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