Hubert Gierowski is a Polish businessman, investor, philanthropist, and art collector who gained prominence as one of the largest individual investors on the Warsaw Stock Exchange during the 1990s.
Born into an artistic family, he is the son of renowned abstract painter Stefan Gierowski, a former professor at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, and the nephew of Professor Józef Andrzej Gierowski, a distinguished historian who served as rector of Jagiellonian University from 1981 to 1987.
Gierowski studied architecture at Warsaw University of Technology before spending 15 years abroad in the United States, France, Latin America, and Japan, where he was involved in trading art works. Upon returning to Poland, he entered the capital markets and became known for his aggressive investment strategies in publicly traded companies.
As the largest shareholder of meat processing company Animex in the late 1990s, Gierowski played a pivotal role in the company’s eventual sale to American food giant Smithfield Foods. In 1999, Smithfield Foods became the strategic investor in Animex. He also became known for real estate investments, notably acquiring the historic Blue Palace (Pałac Błękitny) in 2000, which Count Zamoyski had unsuccessfully tried to reclaim for decades.
Following in his father’s footsteps, Gierowski has maintained a passion for art and is a collector of contemporary art works. He is involved with the Stefan Gierowski Foundation, a family charitable organization established in his father’s honor.
The Gierowski Foundation is his private philanthropic organization dedicated to the arts.