Marian Gazdik

Marian has over twenty years of business experience, having worked in different marketing, product management and strategy roles with fast growing technology businesses in Europe and United States. He is Founding Partner at IPM Growth. At IPM Growth he focuses on helping companies scale and develop meaningful global partnerships.

Marian is European Director at Startup Grind, the world’s largest organisation for entrepreneurs with a presence in 120 countries.

In 2015 he co-founded Braintrust, an influential think-tank of top technology CEOs from Central & Eastern Europe.

Marian is an Advisory Board Member at T-Mobile Czech Republic & Telekom Slovakia, as well as being a startup mentor at Virgin Startup.

He was featured in the New Europe 100 list (organised by the Financial Times, Google, Respublica and Visegrad Strategy), a list of outstanding leaders in world class innovation from Central and Eastern Europe.

Marian holds an MBA from ESCP (European School of Management), the oldest business school in the world.