Paweł Jarski graduated from Kozminski University with a specialty in Human Resource Management and finished a post-graduate program for Entrepreneurs at the Warsaw School of Economics. Pawel is also a scholarship holder at the Helsinki School of Economics (Finland) and Jonkoping Business School (Sweden).  

Between 2004 and 2009, as a founder/co-owner and CEO, he managed SYNERGIS Electrorecycling SA and Electro-System SA companies, which in its third year of operations became the leader in the e-waste market in Poland. They remained in the no.1 position – until was sold to a strategic investor in 2009.

In 2010 he founded Elemental Holding SA and became its CEO and Managing Director. In 2012 under his management, after three consecutive years of rapid growth Elemental successfully conducted IPO on the Warsaw Stock Exchange and remained publicly listed till early 2021.

Since 2011, Paweł became responsible for the development of directions and strategies. He has transformed Elemental from a polish recycling champion to one of the global leaders in the urban mining sector.  While doing so – in 10 years – Elemental successfully conducted 15 foreign acquisitions and has grown its numbers from 150 m to 1,830 m USD on the sale side, becoming present with its assets on more than 30 markets and 3. continents.

In 2015, Pawel became a laureate of Parkiet magazine and received an award for ten best young managers of companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. In the 2016 edition of Harvard Business Review, he became a laureate of best-managed companies on the WSE – presidents ranking. In 2017 – he became a laureate of a polish edition of the EY Entrepreneur of the Year.

In December 2016, he was elected President of the Polish Triathlon Federation and a Member of the Polish Olympic Committee Executive Board. He was re-elected to both positions in December 2021.

In Elemental Holding SA, he is responsible for the development directions and strategies of Elemental Holding group, supervising directly the operating activity of subsidiaries’ management boards.