(Reuters) -Poland’s biggest e-commerce company Allegro said on Monday it has named Marcin Kusmierz as its new CEO from June.
Kusmierz will replace Roy Perticucci, Allegro’s CEO since September 2022, who will become the group’s special adviser.
He will formally take over from Perticucci as CEO of Allegro’s Polish unit in May and of the group at the annual shareholder meeting in June, Allegro said.
The transition will enable a “smooth and structured” handover of responsibilities, Allegro added.
Under Perticucci, an e-commerce veteran who had previously led European operations and customer fulfilment at Amazon.com, Allegro launched its marketplaces in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary after it bought Mall Group in 2022.
Kusmierz will need to deal with the continued turnaround of Mall Group and competition from domestic and international rivals, including Temu.
He has more than 25 years of professional experience in the technology, e-commerce, fintech, and AI industries, Allegro said.
Most recently he was CEO at Shoper, which offers software for e-commerce businesses.
Under Kusmierz’s leadership, Shoper achieved the highest growth of any e-commerce platform in Central and Eastern Europe between 2021 and 2024, Allegro said.
In recent years, Kusmierz has also successfully invested in payment, logistics, cloud, and AI companies, the company added.
(Reporting by Anna PruchnickaEditing by Tomasz Janowski)
