Jarosław Królewski

Jarosław Królewski (born September 26, 1986 ) is a Polish entrepreneur, programmer, sociologist, investor, and philanthropist from Hańczowa.

He is the lecturer at the AGH University of Krakow.

Królewski is a cofounder and chief executive of the software development company Synerise that develops its namesake business intelligence software based on artificial intelligence and big data.

He is also the president and a majority stakeholder of the Polish soccer club Wisła Kraków.

Królewski graduated from the AGH University of Kraków and the University of Banking and Management in Kraków.

He completed two fields of study: a master's degree in sociology, and an engineer's degree in computer science.

Throughout 2000s, Królewski was responsible for issues of usability and user experience at the advertising agency Eskadra in Kraków.

In his youth (2002-2006) he was a football player of the (then 4th league) club Glinik Gorlice, and represented it at the then-highest level of junior competitions in Poland.

He played there with Rafał Wisłocki, later president of Wisła Kraków and vice-president of Bruk-Bet Termalica Nieciecza.

Królewski is a research and teaching employee at AGH, where since 2010 he has been conducting classes and lectures on the Internet, mobile technologies, and UX/UI.

He has been preparing a PhD thesis.

He is the brand ambassador of the Academy.

He is also a mentor of the Polish Development Fund network.

He co-created innovative study programs, including social informatics and electronic business, recognized as the most innovative field of study in Poland in 2012 by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, which led to the AGH receiving a PLN 1 million award for the development of the program.

In 2012, along with programmer Miłosz Baluś and graphic designer Krzysztof Kochmański, he founded the software house Humanoit Group.

The company created a project management software using machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Starter package (Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 2013) and a book Algocracy.

How and why artificial intelligence changes everything'' (with Krzysztof Rybiński, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 2023).

In 2013, HG Intelligence was established to create a platform for analytics and automation of business processes called "Synerise" that combined big data with artificial intelligence mechanisms.

Królewski became the president of the company's management board.

In 2016, the company rebranded after its platform.

In 2019, on the occasion of the AGH University's 100th anniversary, Królewski was honored the title of "AGH Graduate Junior 2018."

Królewski is the co-originator of the "Data Science in Business and Administration" doctoral studies organized by the Faculty of Computer Science and Electronic Economy of the Poznań University of Economics.

He is a co-author of a textbook ''E-marketing.

Contemporary trends.

It is one of the fastest growing enterprises in Poland – in 2019 it was valued at USD 85 million (PLN 323.5 million), and its value is still growing, in 2022 it announced an investment of USD 23 million.

Królewski is a supporter of releasing some software in open-source form, an example of which is the open library Cleora.ai.

Królewski has been described "one of the most promising young Polish businessmen in the technology industry."

According to Forbes, he is a "visionary computer scientist who in many respects resembles the young Bill Gates."

Królewski considers himself a “technological determinist and optimist.” He never wants to be a millionaire or billionaire, he spends 80 percent of his private income on education, sports and charities.

At the beginning of 2019, Królewski was the initiator of a rescue operation that saved Wisła Kraków from bankruptcy, as well as the originator of the crowdfunding issue of shares of Wisła Kraków, pioneering in Polish sports, during restructuring and searching for a strategic investor.

The offered shares constituted 5.1 percent.

all the company's shares, which meant that the club was valued at PLN 74.4 million.

40,000 shares were put up for sale, each worth PLN 100.

Within 24 hours, they were purchased by 9,124 investors through Beesfund, earning the club PLN 4 million.

In March 2019, changes to the statute and composition of Wisła's supervisory board were announced – Królewski became vice-chairman of the board, a position he held until 2021.

In April 2020, he became Wisła's co-owner.

Together with the footballer Jakub Błaszczykowski and manager Tomasz Jażdżyński, president of Gremi Media (publisher of the dailies Rzeczpospolita and Parkiet), he granted a bridging loan to the club in the amount of PLN 4 million (each supporting PLN 1.33 million).

The funds were used to repay the club's debts to players.

In April 2020, Królewski, Błaszczykowski, and Jażdżyński were the club's co-owners.