Zygmunt Solorz-Żak, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Zygmunt Solorz-Żak

Polish businessman

Date of Birth: 04-Aug-1956

Place of Birth: Radom, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Profession: entrepreneur

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Zygmunt Solorz-Żak

  • Zygmunt Solorz-Zak (born Zygmunt Józef Krok, August 4, 1956) is a Polish businessman.
  • He is the second richest person in Poland and has repeatedly appeared on Forbes' ranking of the world's billionaires, with an estimated net worth around €5.77 billion.
  • On the Forbes 2016 list of the world's billionaires, he was ranked #688 with a net worth of US$2.5 billion.Solorz-Zak launched the free-to-air commercial TV channel Polsat in 1992, broadcast through satellite, and obtained a national commercial television license in 1993.
  • Since the middle of the 1990s, Polsat has remained one of Poland's biggest television stations.
  • Apart from TV Polsat, Solorz-Zak's key assets include the pay TV platform Cyfrowy Polsat.
  • He holds controlling stakes in the pension fund PTE Polsat, small life insurer Polisa and retail bank Invest Bank.
  • After winning control over the distressed Elektrim conglomerate, Solorz-Zak obtained operating control over the lignite power plant PAK, ranked among the three largest electricity producers in Poland.
  • He has owned the Slask Wroclaw football club since 2008 and the Polish mobile phone company Polkomtel since 2011.

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