Meet our interdisciplinary team
Entrepreneurs, innovators and specialists in several fields.
Wojciech Ozimek
Creative Industries
Wojciech leads Rokakan’s team. He has more 10 years of experience with different aspects of product management and innovation: he managed a software startup, was a Director of Product Management in a listed company XPLUS and helped as a Interim Product manager in rescuing many problematic products. He was the founder and the first president of PDMA Central Europe, the association for product and R&D people.
His passion is composing music and music technology. Currently, he is the Head of Product in My3Daudio, company that develops volumetric audio solutions for gaming and VR.
Gniewomir Gordziej
HealthTech Products
Committed product development, R&D, portfolio and innovation manager with a specialty in medical technologies and a history of leadership roles in three countries. He has a deep understanding of the regulatory landscape. With a decade-plus of industry experience adeptly navigated the complexities of MDR, MDD, FDA regulations, and industry standards, encompassing IEC 60601, IEC 62304, ISO 13485, and ISO 14971.
The track record of leading diverse projects, steering cross-functional teams, and successful introduction of cutting-edge medical technologies to the market. Proficient in capital expenditure management, full profit and loss accountability, and effective human resources leadership are standout skills. An enthusiast for medical technology, especially advancing point-of-care surgical equipment and elevating patient outcomes through innovation.
Wojciech Przychodzeń
NPDP Trainer & NPD projects
With more than 15 years in project management (he is certified PMP, Agile, ITIL and Prince2 Practicioner), Wojciech is our expert managing complex NPD Projects. He is a co-author of the Guide to the General Theory of Innovation, written with an American engineer Greg Yezersky. He teaches innovation since 2012 and is the first NewProductDevelopmentProfessional (NPDP) accredited trainer in Central Europe – he helped many product managers to obtain this badge.
Krzysztof Banasiak
CPO, M&A
Krzysztof is an experienced Chief Product Offcer and Chief Technology Officer with interest in creating product and service strategies, creating new business opportunities and synergies and management and reorganization of Hardware, Software, Project Management departments. He is also exerienced in preparing organizations for M&A process incl: Strategies, Structure, Product Portfolios, Financial and Service. Previously, CPO of Fibaro, leading Smart Home company
Łukasz Zając
TRIZ projects and trainings
Łukasz is a certified TRIZ practitioner. He has years of experience in implementing technology in the textile industry, solving complex production problems (including those often requiring conflicting) and in conducting technical trainings. He believes that science is the only way to improve the situation in the world. That is why he is an advocate and a practitioner of the TRIZ methodology and its scientific and algorithmic approach to solving technical problems.
Dr Michał Pietraszewski
Energy products
He is an expert in financing of R&D projects. He holds a Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Economics at the University of Lódź and was a fellow at PennState University and Iowa State University. He has more than 20 years of experience in rising founds for innovation commercialization and held various executive positions in the energy and fuel sector. Author of numerous papers about investment processes and technology transfer and financing.
Zofia Przybyło
Industrial Design
Zosia is a design graduate of the Katowice Academy of Fine Arts. She worked a designer for various industries: from chemical industry through baby care to sports and a startup launching a ski products. She is a problem solver and finds herself best in R&D projects
Maciej Młynarski
Data Science
Maciek is a Data Scientist with more than 20 years of experience in various managerial positions that link business and technology. His passion is innovation and applying Data Science in NPD Projects, Portfolio Analysis but he is also skilled with Prediction Methods and Process Mining. He holds the MBA from Warsaw University and the University of Illinois. He also works for the European Institute of Technology together with Warsaw University as a mentor for startups in Horizon 2020 Programme.
Alina Kubiak
MedTech Products
Alina has over 15 years of experience as a business strategy and marketing manager, mainly in the med-tech industry. In her career, she was responsible for reinvigorating brands, GTM strategies, as well as building new business models. She co-created educational projects for the medical industry in the field of hospital infrastructure and workflow optimization in the operating theater. Involved in activities aimed at improving patient experience in hospitals (UX, Patient Journey Mapping, Lean Healthcare).
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