A graduate of the Cracow University of Economics, Ryszard Chmura started his business adventure already during his studies by setting up his own event agency. In 2009, he joined the BNI community, where he learned the methods and tools for growing a business through referrals. As a result, he expanded his company, increasing the employment from 1 person to 200 employees in 6 years. In BNI, he found partners for other companies, as a result of which he created PromoHolding, generating tens of millions of PLN in revenue annually.
Ryszard Chmura in BNI has worked his way up from Chapter Member, Regional Director, franchisee to being the owner of BNI in Poland. In 2014, he became the youngest BNI National Director in the world. The experience he gained while working on the development of BNI inspired him to launch an organization in Poland for owners of the biggest companies with revenues of more than PLN 100 million – an organization that already brings together nearly 200 entrepreneurs.
Ryszard Chmura is enthusiastically involved in projects aimed at helping others. Among them is the „Help for Ukraine” initiative, under which material and financial support was provided with a total value exceeding PLN 400 million. As part of this action, a Grand Charity Auction was held, co-organized every year by Corporate Connections as Top Charity, together with Rafał Brzoska and Omena Mensah.