Łukasz Sebastian Zgiep (; born July 9, 1988) is a

Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Polish people, people from Poland or of Polish descent * Polish chicken * Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin ...

entrepreneur Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value in ways that generally entail beyond the minimal amount of risk (assumed by a traditional business), and potentially involving values besides simply economic ones. An entreprene ...

and consultant of the

Blockchain The blockchain is a distributed ledger with growing lists of Record (computer science), records (''blocks'') that are securely linked together via Cryptographic hash function, cryptographic hashes. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of th ...

-based business models. He is the

chief operating officer A chief operating officer (COO), also called chief operations officer, is an executive in charge of the daily operations of an organization (i.e. personnel, resources, and logistics). COOs are usually second-in-command immediately after the C ...

of the

equity crowdfunding Equity crowdfunding is the online offering of private company securities to a group of people for investment and therefore it is a part of the capital markets. Because equity crowdfunding involves investment into a commercial enterprise, it ...

platform Beesfund. Doctor of economics at the

Warsaw University of Life Sciences The Warsaw University of Life Sciences (, SGGW) is the largest agricultural university in Poland, established in 1816 in Warsaw. It employs over 2,600 staff including over 1,200 academic educators. The University is since 2005 a member of the Eu ...

(SGGW).

Career

Zgiep has been an

innovation management Innovation management is a combination of the management of innovation processes, and change management. It refers to product, business process, marketing and organizational innovation. Innovation management is the subject of ISO 56000 (formerl ...

consultant, improving companies' efficiency of their business processes. He co-authored a report ''Economics of Cooperation in Poland 2016'', and the annual summary ''The Polish Collaborative Economy Honeycomb'', a matrix of companies that use innovative business models. He has been teaching on cooperation economy, business innovation, and

crowdfunding Crowdfunding is the practice of funding a project or venture by raising money from a large number of people, typically via the internet. Crowdfunding is a form of crowdsourcing and Alternative Finance, alternative finance, to fund projects "withou ...

. Since 2018, Zgiep has been the Chief Operating Officer of the Polish equity crowdfunding platform Beesfund. He is a member of the Blockchain and New Technologies Chamber of Commerce, and the Blockchain and New Technologies Chamber of Commerce. He has been

mentoring Mentorship is the patronage, influence, guidance, or direction given by a mentor. A mentor is someone who teaches or gives help and advice to a less experienced and often younger person. In an organizational setting, a mentor influences the perso ...

startups in acceleration programs around Poland, and consulting companies on the Blockchain-based sharing economy business models.

Recognition

In January 2017, Zgiep won a Polish Chamber of Commerce's competition “Digital Poland 2020+”, for the essay ''Collaborative Economy as an Opportunity for the Polish Economy During the Fourth Industrial Revolution''.

Publications

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References

External links

Łukasz Zgiep's blog
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