Management Team

Anya Margaret Baum is the Founder and Managing Director of The Keryx Group, a strategic advisory firm working with municipalities and emerging technology, ie: the five Smart City industries of energy, mobility, infrastructure, ICT, and security. Her work focuses on EU's Smart City policies, and advises cities and metropolises in recommending investments and technologies that complement their own development strategy. Anchored in the realities of Central and Eastern Europe, she is a proponent of addressing real-world situations such urban shrinkage, infrastructure adjustment, political agenda-setting with smart policy entrepreneurship.

Since January 2014, Ms. Ogorkiewicz is the permanent representative of Poland to the Smart and Sustainable Cities and Communities standardization discussions at the EU-level (CEN, CENELEC, ETSI). She is the sole representative of Central and Eastern Europe to the discussions that will conclude in 2015 on standardized Smart City definitions and metrics. Previously, she was the Chair of the Strategy Group and member of the Smart City RoadMap Group in the EU Commission's Smart City Stakeholders Platform in 2012-2013.

In November 2012, the Clingendal Institute of International Relations invited Anya Margaret Ogorkiewicz to guest lecture on business diplomacy and EU's smart cities policy in November 2012 ahead of publication in a business-focused edition of The Hague Journal of Diplomacy. Outside of academia, she published opinion pieces in the American Investor Magazine, Liberté Magazine, the Cosmopolitan Review, Visegrad Insight as well as in industry journals ("Smart Grids Polska," July 2014.)

Anya Margaret Ogorkiewicz was recognized by the BMW Herbert Quandt Foundation as a Global Responsible Leader in 2012 and participated in September 2013 in the World Responsible Leaders Forum in Beijing, China. She was previously recognized by the Aspen Institute in its regional Young Leader Program. In December 2013 Anya Ogorkiewicz attended the INSEAD Executive Education Social Entrepreneurship Program (ISEP) in Singapore.

Formerly a Business Development Manager for a local public affairs agency, she had regular face-time with public affairs agencies in Brussels, London, Paris and Washington D.C. In 2009, she represented the Polish firm during the sensitive talks on purchasing the Gdansk shipyards by the Qatari Investment Authority. Previous to this position, she was an international project manager in a private equity firm with around $12 million in assets, responsible for a portfolio that included aviation, telecom and HoReCa. She was a candidate to the Certified Financial Analyst examinations in 2008. In January 2008 Ms. Ogorkiewicz managed the 1st Central European Natural Gas Summit, which brought the key players of the regional natural gas market together in Warsaw during the first Russian-Ukrainian energy crisis.

From an international background, having attended the Institute Le Rosey in Switzerland and the Lycée Français in Los Angeles, Ms. Ogorkiewicz received her Masters of Science in Economics from the scientific Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg for her study on the post-communist macroeconomics in Central Europe. Her second Masters was granted by the College of Europe in Bruges for the analysis of "trust" as a cultural barrier to international trade; a work published by her alma mater in September 2006.

Of dual US and Polish citizenship, Ms. Ogorkiewicz currently holds the co-Chair of the Marketing and Communication Committee at the American Chamber of Commerce in Poland. She is the Vice-President of the Supervisory Board of the Polish branch of the College of Europe Alumni association. She is a Founding Member of the American Friends of the Musée d'Orsay, Paris. She enjoys jazz piano and volunteers in the Communication Department of Warsaw "Bednarska" Jazz School.

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Adam Marek Reisling is an alumnus of Cambridge University, Trinity College, graduating in 1999 with an M.A. in History and the Philosophy of Science. He is a Public Relations consultant with extensive experience in business image consulting, event management and cultural events production in Asia and Central and Eastern Europe.

Upon graduating from Cambridge University, Adam pursued a Chinese language degree at Tunghai University Taichung, Taiwan during 2000 to 2002, where he also worked as a student examiner, editor of an English language newspaper "Compass Magazine" and a contributor to "The Taipei Times".

In 2003, he was a media executive in the Media Department of the Asian Development Bank in Kyoto, Japan where his responsibilities focused on producing and supporting the high-level 2003 World Water Forum Summit. He left the intergovernmental agency to manage a traditional Japanese guest-house, Kaguraya, in Kyoto while pursuing his academic career. From 2006 to 2009, Adam was a consultant on art and antiquity investments at the Chiiori Trust and the Chris Rowthorn Company. He designed and guided cross-cultural itineraries of Japan for fine art investors, included writing, editing, translation and lecturing on Far Eastern culture to investment-minded high net worth individuals from Europe and the United States.

In 2009, Adam returned to Poland to pursue a post-graduate degree in Central and Eastern European Studies at the Jagellonian University in Cracow. He continues being a consultant to property investors and business start-ups in Poland. He is a participant in public debates concerning current social and political change in CEE, including television appearances on TVN Poland on comparative societal issues. He is a frequent guest of the Krynica Economic Forum, the European Economic Congress in Katowice and the TEDx conferences in Krakow.

Adam speaks fluently English, Polish, Japanese, with basic Chinese and French.

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Please refer to the Regions section for an overview.

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