Richard Kaluzynski is the co-Managing Partner of Odgers Berndtson in Poland where he is also responsible for developing the firm's technology and regional businesses. In 2002 together with Grazyna Madeja he founded Kaluzynski & Madeja in Warsaw with a focus on the CEE region. The firm joined Odgers Berndtson in 2009.
Prior to this, in 1989, he was one of the first recruiters in Central and Eastern Europe working in Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Russia. In 1995 he opened Russell Reynolds Associates in Warsaw. With a regional focus the firm recruited chief executive officers and senior management for major multinationals, mainly in technology, consumer goods, financial services and in the industrial sector. His early career was in the UK at BOC where he was involved in the management buyout of an IT recruiting arm (he was one of the founders) which was later sold to Wolseley plc.
Richard studied Computer Science, e-Business and Entrepreneurship in London, Chicago and Fontainebleau.
