Senior Strategy Adviser

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.

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Piotr Bendykowski – Senior Strategy Adviser, Strategy Partners

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
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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
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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
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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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FAQ

Questions about working with Piotr

A short guide to the first contact and working together.

Can I talk directly to Piotr?
Yes. Say in the form that you would like to talk to Piotr Bendykowski – we will arrange a conversation directly with him.
How is Piotr different from a typical consultant?
He combines two perspectives: more than 15 years of consulting at McKinsey, Accenture and KPMG and more than 15 years running companies as director, deputy CEO and CEO. So he knows both the methodology of large consulting firms and the realities of implementing decisions in a company.
What kind of companies does Piotr work with?
With manufacturing and service companies at different stages – from startups, through fast-growing and stable companies, to companies in financial difficulty. He has worked in companies of a few people and in organisations employing more than 100,000.
Does Piotr work on international projects?
Yes. He has worked in Poland, Central, Eastern and Western Europe and the USA, often in teams of specialists from different countries.
How do we start working together?
With a free conversation without obligation – online or at your company. Just fill in the form below or call +48 578 020 406. On request we sign an NDA first.

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