My story is a story of AIESEC Poland - from the local committee at the Main School of Planning and Statistics (SGPiS), to NCP 1987/88. This is a story of organizing internships in Poland for foreign students, as well as my own internships: in Norway in 1986 at the Ministry of Labor and in 1988 in Long Beach, California (as financial analyst, in the Memorial Medical Center). 1988 was also a year when I got married to Bogna, a graduate of the School of Foreign Trade as well. Soon thereafter, in California, our children, Jan Daniel and Alexandra, were born.

And that is how my AIESEC adventure turned into my life story.

The path of my professional life, led me throughout various fields of corporate finance. Beckman Coulter (currently part of Danaher (NYSE: DHR)) was the company with the longest and most diversified tenure. My career at Beckman was fascinating and involved many positions. Three of them were mega interesting and stimulating:

1. Investors Relations and preparing financial forecasts and guidance for Wall Street,
2. Building a new FP&A Team and leading an Accounting Shared Service Center in Switzerland (Nyon, near Geneva) and
3. M&A project in Japan (Beckman was buying part of the Japanese Olympus at that time).

After spending more than 20 years in sunny California, Switzerland and Japan, the time has come for the Polish professional episode - I started working as a Regional CFO for Eastern and Central Europe for another American company in 2011. Four years later we set sail again, this time off to England, where I currently work as Sr. Finance Director for Hologic (NASDAQ: HOLX).

What will the future bring? What will be the next stage of our journey? I do not know. Only time will tell!