ANDRZEJ WIDERSZPIL

Andrzej Widerszpil, 44, was appointed president of Optimus. He is a sociology graduate of Warsaw University where he worked as a reporter for the publications Kultura and Miesiźcznik Literacki. After that he was appointed head of a research team at market research company Centrum Badania Opinii Społecznej (CBOS). In 1986 Widerszpil left for New York for a one-year scholarship at New York University's graduate school of business administration. Two years later he moved to Canada where he worked as a consultant and manager at Dominion Propane and Compucenter Toronto. In 1994 he worked on introducing Lotus Development's products to Poland and a year later became general director of the company. In 1996 he started working for Digital Equipment and when the company merged with Compaq in 1998 he became general director of Compaq in Poland.