Candidate’s name
Daniel Puchalski
Current position
Managing Partner
Company’s name
Knight Frank
Work experience in this position
Since October 1st, 2019
Description of business activity (profile, market sectors served, etc.)
Investment land disposal and aquisition on residential, office, logistic, hotels, student housing, and data centre markets. Advisory services on the residential and office market. Disposal on the office and retail investment market.
Size of the company managed by the candidate (headcount, regions of activity)
160 people; 7 offices (Warsaw and main regional cities: Kraków, Wrocław, Gdańsk, Poznań, Katowice, Łódź)
The y-o-y increase in profits/income generated last year
Confidential , related to previous employment
Career path (Previous employers, professional progress, when was the candidate promoted to the current position, etc.)
He has over 25 years of professional experience. Prior to joining Knight Frank, he specialized in land investment consulting and led broker teams in international advisory companies (JLL and Colliers International). He graduated from the University of Gdańsk (Faculty of Economics), University of Business and Administration in Gdynia (Business Administration and Management, Media Management) and postgraduate studies at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities (HR Management).
Biggest business achievements, especially those made last year
His main achievements include the sale of investment plots for various projects (office, hotels, industrial, residential and agricultural/forest) with a total area of ca. 50M sqm of land; 3M sqm of usage space in the aforementioned sectors worth ca. PLN 4,5 billion, and ca. PLN 1.5 billion in advising during sales of investment companies and properties. The deals were all done in Poland. Daniel founded and led the Land Investment Department at Colliers International and JLL. He now utilizes his expertise to support the creation of such a department at Knight Frank.
Contributions made to the improvement of the CEE commercial property market
He established the first proffesional Land Advisory on the Polish market at Colliers International in 2007 and first Land Advisory Services at JLL Poland in 2013. 15 years of presence and 13 across international agencies made a significant change to the quality of Polsih land advisory services.
Other industry awards and prizes
Biggest Invetsment land transaction - disposal of 3200 ha - awarded by CiJ
