Managing Partner & Co-Founder, Optiveum
20+ years connecting global tech companies with Central European engineering talent - through roles at Hays, ManpowerGroup and Randstad, and now building Optiveum.
Marek Wróbel is Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Optiveum, the boutique IT recruitment and outsourcing firm he launched in 2020 with Tomasz Polikowski. Over the past two decades, Marek has built and led recruitment and outsourcing operations for some of the world's largest staffing organisations - including Hays, ManpowerGroup and Randstad - working across Poland and the wider Central and Eastern European region.
His focus has always sat at the intersection of IT recruitment, nearshore team building and go-to-market strategy for companies expanding into CEE. He has advised scale-ups, enterprises and PE-backed portfolio companies on everything from single senior hires to full engineering teams of 20+ people - always with the same philosophy: verify before you place, and stay involved after the hire.
Outside of Optiveum, Marek has visited more than 60 countries and speaks six languages - an outlook that shapes how he thinks about cross-border hiring: every market has its own culture, compliance rules and expectations, and treating CEE as a single homogeneous talent pool is usually the first mistake companies make.
