Robert Zajkowski is an Associate Professor in the Department of Banking and Financial Markets, Faculty of Economics at Maria Sklodowska-Curie University in Lublin. His main research interests are family businesses, corporate finance and governance, VBM, business creation processes, optimization of managerial decisions in companies and the implementation of qualitative and quantitative research methods. Prof. Zajkowski is the author of over 60 scientific publications, including foreign publications and both individual and co-editor works. Prof. Robert Zajkowski holds the positions of Expert of the Regional Court and Expert of the Polish Academy of Sciences Foundation. He is also a co-operator of a few other non-governmental organizations. Since 2009, prof. Robert Zajkowski has been the Finance Expert of the Marshal Office of the Lubelskie Voivodship in Lublin and participates in processes of EU subsidy application appraisals. Prof. Robert Zajkowski is additionally an originator and member of the Family Business Research Network (FaBeRNET) that is an association of family business researchers in Poland. Correspondence to: Robert Zajkowski, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Department of Banking and Financial Markets, Maria Curie-Sklodowska sq. 5, 20-031 Lublin, Poland, e-mail: robert.zajkowski@mail.umcs.pl ORCID ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-7977