Rafał Brzoska (born 13 November 1977) is a Polish

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and

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. He is the founder and

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of InPost S.A.

Life and career

Brzoska attended Jan Kasprowicz High School in

Racibórz Racibórz (german: Ratibor, cz, Ratiboř, szl, Racibōrz) is a city in Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland. It is the administrative seat of Racibórz County. With Opole, Racibórz is one of the historic capitals of Upper Silesia, being t ...

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and later the

Kraków University of Economics Krakow University of Economics (Polish: ''Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Krakowie'', UEK) is one of the five Polish public economics universities. CUE came into existence in 1925. It is the biggest university of economic sciences in Poland. Kraków Un ...

. During his third year at university, he founded Integer, initially a website design business, with capital of 20,000 złoty ($5,000 as of 1999). After several money-losing months, the company switched to distributing leaflets and became successful. In 2006, he founded InPost and created a network of self-serviced postal boxes known as . In 2012, he appeared on a list of the richest Poles, and in 2015 was ranked the 68th on Forbes' "List of the 100 richest Poles 2015." In 2019, Brzoska married the Polish journalist and television personality Omenaa Mensah. They have one son, Vincent, who was born in 2017. Brzoska has two daughters from a previous relationship. As of 2021 Brzoska's net worth is estimated at 5 billion złoty (1.3 billion

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) In 2023, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta by President

Andrzej Duda Andrzej Sebastian Duda (; born 16 May 1972) is a Polish lawyer and politician who has served as president of Poland since 6 August 2015. Before becoming president, Andrzej Duda was a member of Polish Lower House (Sejm) from 2011 to 2014 and the ...

at the

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for his "outstanding contributions to the development of Polish economy as well as his social and charity activism".

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Brzoska, Rafał 1977 births Living people 21st-century Polish businesspeople Kraków University of Economics alumni People from Racibórz Polish billionaires

Life and career

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