Mr Przemysław Rasz is a graduate of a dual programme by the Poznań University of Technology (MSc Eng. in Chemical and Food Industry) and the University of Economics in Poznań (Management), where he obtained his degree in 1988. In 1998 he took a post-graduate course in Company Value Management at the SGH Warsaw School of Economics in Warsaw. In 1989 he joined Izolacja Zduńska Wola, where he worked for the subsequent 28 years. In 1994 he was appointed Member of the Company Management Board and in 1996 was a leader of a team responsible for the company IPO at the Warsaw Stock Exchange. In 1999, after the control stake of the company had been acquired by the Danish Icopal a.s., a global leader in roof waterproofing materials, he became President of the Polish subsidiary and two years later Member of the Icopal Global Board in charge of innovation and business development. Under the leadership of Mr Rasz, Icopal Poland experienced a period of consistent and profitable growth marked by strategic acquisitions, green field investments, restructuring, as well as new products and systems implementation. That firmly established the company as an unquestioned leader in Poland and the region. In that time, the company developed close ties with Universities of Technology, which resulted in several successful innovative waterproofing products and solutions. Within his corporate capacity, he was co-creator of a strong and uniform global structure, which originated from a merger of a series of acquired companies. In 2007 Icopal was taken over by the Investcorp Private Equity Fund, and in 2008 Mr Przemysław Rasz became directly responsible for the CEE region, which he led until 2016, when the company was sold to Standard Industry, a US-based strategic investor. He played an important role in the take-over process, including as a trustee of a group of key executives and minority shareholders during the negotiations. For the further two years he was Vice President of the Global Executive Board of the Icopal Group based in London. After the acquisition of Brass Monier, he managed the merged organisation of Icopal and Brass Monier (BMI) in Poland until 2018.
Within his social and business capacity, Mr Rasz served: two terms as a Member of the Board of Construction Materials by the Minister/Chief Building Supervision Inspector; two terms as a Member of the Scientific Council of Building Technology Institute in Warsaw; two terms as a Member of the Building Design Chamber in Warsaw; four terms as a Deputy Chair of the Board of the Polish Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the Construction Business; and two terms as the Chairman of the Construction Committee of the National Chamber of Commerce in Warsaw. Since 2019 he has focused on advisory and supervisory activities. In the years 2019 and 2020, until the time of COVID-19 related limitations, he was Chairman of the Board of Directors at Worthhouse Inc., a US subsidiary of the Budmat Group. He is an independent Member of the Supervisory Board of Grupa KĘTY S.A. Privately, he is a devoted owner of the R&R Gallery, Poland’s largest gallery of silver and lighting in Łódź.