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Adrian Wrona

Adrian Wrona

Program Manager & COO

📍 Lugano, Switzerland📧 adrian@wrona.ch

Professional Summary

I'm a Program Manager with hands-on COO experience from building my own startup. I took the company from zero to 150,000+ users, managing finance, operations, and team leadership. I've built the processes and infrastructure that enable companies to scale effectively. I'm ready to step into COO or Operations Director roles where I can apply my end-to-end operational experience to drive company growth.

Professional Experience

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Program Manager

Casper Association

Dec 2021 - Present

Zug, Switzerland

  • Scaled operations 5x: Joined open-source blockchain startup at 10 FTE, partnered directly with COO to build foundation infrastructure and processes supporting growth to 50+ team members.
  • Systems & operations: Deployed and administered critical tooling ecosystem (HR systems, Google Workspace, GitHub, JIRA, Slack), managed treasury allocation, and coordinated exchange/grantee relationships.
  • Platform delivery: Led on-time, on-budget launch of three core ecosystem platforms serving 200,000+ community members and 10,000+ developers as primary knowledge base.
  • Team leadership: Managed two remote Project Managers while reporting directly to CTO.
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Co-founder & COO

Tubbly

Jul 2021 - Present

Warsaw, Poland (Part-time)

  • Built from zero to scale: Launched consumer mobile app (iOS/Android) reaching 150,000+ users and €100,000+ ARR with a lean remote team of 5.
  • Revenue & fundraising: Secured €300,000+ through client sales and grant applications; led all investor and client pitches.
  • Full operational ownership: Established company infrastructure from ground up including financial systems, legal structures, tooling (project management, communication, development), and vendor relationships.
  • Cross-functional leadership: Managed engineering team delivery, owned product releases to App Store/Google Play, contributed to codebase, designed all marketing materials and website.
  • Strategic execution: Wore every hat required - from finance and operations to marketing and technical implementation - identifying gaps and executing solutions autonomously.
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Blockchain Project Manager

CloudBest

Apr 2021 - Nov 2021

Warsaw, Poland

  • Delivered ERC-721 NFT platform and UX enhancements for Electrum wallet fork at 100+ person blockchain startup.
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Project Manager

mBank

Oct 2018 - Mar 2021

Warsaw, Poland

  • Led medium-sized independent projects of high complexity, and project streams within larger regulatory programs with budgets ~€1M. All projects were regulatory and with international stakeholders (authorities and vendors).
  • Successfully negotiated 15–25% lower implementation costs through procurement and legal negotiations.
  • Key projects: implementation of Assets and Liabilities Management (ALM) system, Standard Initial Margin Model (SIMM) calculation module implementation and Advanced Internal Rating-Based Approach (AIRB) application to EBA.
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Team Manager

Citi Bank

Jun 2016 - Sep 2018

London, UK & Warsaw, Poland

  • Developed VBA tools for MS Excel and MS Access for workload tracking and process enhancement increasing team capacity by 40%. Later, implemented the same tools in the UK team, after transfer to London.
  • Automated AML reports for internal and external (for regulators e.g. FCA) use, saving the equivalent of 1 FTE.

Education

Warsaw School of Economics

Master's Degree in Finance and Accounting

2025

  • Thesis: The importance of the origin of equity capital for ESG ratings based on the Polish banking sector.
  • Specialization in Banking.

University of Warsaw

Bachelor's Degree in Finance and Accounting

2019

  • Thesis: The influence of news on the cryptocurrency market.

Achievements

Ran a Zurich Marathon
2025
Earned 'Tier 2 - Above and Beyond'
2024
Co-funded startup reached 100,000+ users
2023
Organised Made In Blockchain
2021
Received 'Above and Beyond' rating
2020
Translated 'Blockchain Revolution'
2018
Top performer (Rating 1) at Citi Bank
2017
Youngest team manager in Citi Bank Poland
2016

Certificates

ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management logoITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management
AgilePM Registered Practitioner (AgilePM) logoAgilePM Registered Practitioner (AgilePM)
Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) logoCertified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)
ICA Anti Money Laundering logoICA Anti Money Laundering

Skills & Interests

Languages

Polish (C2 - native), English (C1 - advanced proficiency)

Software

Advanced: JIRA, Confluence, Figma, Excel, Webflow

Intermediate: ClickUp, Google Workspace Admin, GitHub

Basic: JavaScript, Vue, App Store, Google Play

Interests

Running, Austrian School of Economics, Start-ups, Web Development, Hiking