Changes to the MakoLab Management Board and a new role for the company’s founder

The beginning of 2023 has brought some important changes to MakoLab’s governing body. The founder, Dr Mirosław Sopek, has submitted his resignation as Vice President of the Management Board. Viewed from the perspective of the company’s thirty-three years as a presence on the market, this is a historical moment. Dr Sopek created MakoLab and went on to carving out the directions it would take in its development and the goals it would pursue. For the first twenty years, he was involved in almost every process, as his colleagues well remember. A change came in 2008, when the company went public on the NewConnect market of the Warsaw Stock Exchange and he handed the reins of management to Wojciech Zieliński, who remains President of the Board to this day. Since then, Dr Sopek’s primary focus has been the company’s technological development and conceiving new ideas for its growth.

Dr Sopek’s departure from the Management Board on 28th February 2023 will not affect the number of board members. A new Vice President, Marek Wodzisławski, has been appointed in his stead. Mr Wodzisławski, who has been with MakoLab for five years, is a graduate of the Łódź University of Technology, where he studied at the Faculty of Electrical, Electronic, Computer and Control Engineering. He worked for Łódź-based company Ericpol Telecom Sp. z o.o., (renamed Ericpol sp. z o.o. in 2012) for fifteen years, starting out on projects for the telecommunications sector and moving up the ladder to become the person responsible for growing the business in terms of connectivity solutions for the automotive market. Then, in March 2017, he joined MakoLab as the head of a newly conceived business area, which would be devoted to connected vehicles.