PGNiG Polish Oil & Gas : Current Report No. 3/2020

Current Report No. 3/2020

2020.01.24 10:40 Current Report No. 3/2020

Warsaw, January 24th 2020
Appointment of Management Board President and Members by PGNiG Supervisory Board - supplementary information to the Current Report No. 1/2020
Current Report No. 3/2020
As a supplement to the Current Report No. 1/2020 of January 9th 2020, the Management Board of Polskie Górnictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo S.A. ('PGNiG', the 'Company') hereby provides additional information about the Management Board Members appointed to the PGNiG Management Board for the sixth joint term of office.
Jerzy Kwieciński
Jerzy Kwieciński is a graduate of Faculty of Materials Engineering of the Warsaw University of Technology and holds a degree of Doctor in the field of technical science. He also completed a postgraduate course for managers at the Warsaw School of Economics and an international Master of Business Administration programme run by the University of Antwerp, the University of Staffordshire, the Free University of Brussels and the University of Warsaw. Jerzy Kwieciński also has experience in academic and R&D work, which he gained, among others at the Warsaw University of Technology and as a visiting professor at Brunel University of West London.
Mr Kwieciński has more than 30 years of international experience in strategic planning, management of large organisations, programmes and projects in the public, private, non-governmental and scientific research sectors, including energy sector.
From 1993 to 2004, he worked for the European Commission Representation in Poland, where his duties included management of programmes and projects financed by the European Union. He also participated in the works preparing Poland for membership in the European Union. Between 2004 and 2005 he was the President of Europejskie Centrum Przedsiębiorczości Sp. z o.o, where in 2008-2015 he acted as a Vice-President of the Management Board.
In 2005, Mr Kwieciński took a position of the Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Regional Development, headed by Minister Grażyna Gęsicka, where he coordinated the national development policy and cohesion policy, including the work on the National Development Strategy for 2007-2015 and the National Cohesion Strategy for 2007-2013.
In 2008-2015, he served as President of the Management Board of JP Capital Group sp. z o.o., specialising in preparation and implementation of projects and innovations, including establishing and running start-ups. In that period he was also head of Fundacja Europejskie Centrum Przedsiębiorczości (European Entrepreneurship Centre Foundation).
Since 2015, he has been a member of the National Development Council, appointed by President Andrzej Duda.
In November 2015, he was appointed the first deputy of the Deputy Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in the Ministry of Development in the government of Prime Minister Beata Szydło. From January 2018, he held the office of the Minister of Investment and Development in the government of Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, and from September 2019 he served also as the Minister of Finance. He held both functions until November 15, 2019. He worked on, among others on preparation and implementation of the Strategy for Responsible Development and implementation of cohesion policy.
Przemysław Wacławski
Przemysław Wacławski is a graduate of the Faculty of Management of the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków. He is now attending the international FLEX Executive MBA programme for Digital Transformation at MIP Politecnico di Milano in Italy.
In 2002-2006, he worked for Ernst & Young, where he was engaged in such areas as financial audit and due dilligence.
Between June 2006 and September 2010, he served as Head of Controlling Department and Head of Investment and Sales for the Balkan Market at Tele-Fonika Kable S.A. From October 2010, he served as Member of the Management Board for Finance, and from February 2011 to May 2013 - as President of the Management Board of TF Kable Fabrika Kablova Zajecar d.o.o. of Serbia. Between February 2013 and September 2018, Mr Wacławski served as Head of Controlling Department at Tele-Fonika Kable S.A. During that period, he also sat on the Management Boards of the Tele-Fonika Kable Group's foreign companies.
In October 2018, he was appointed Member of the Management Board for Finance at Unipetrol a.s. in Czechia, where he was in charge of the finance, supply chain management and IT divisions. He also supervised the Unipetrol Group's finance division.
Robert Perkowski
Robert Perkowski is an economist (PhD in Economics) and member of the local government. He completed a post-graduate course in Management Analytics at ORGMASZ Institute of Industry Organisation and Management, where he also completed International Doctoral Studies. His PhD programme was opened and conducted at the Institute of Economics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He also completed a full-time MA programme at Independent University of Business and Public Administration in Warsaw, majoring in Marketing and Management, and in Finance and Banking. He has written more than a dozen research articles.
Mr Perkowski started his professional career in 2001 as an intern at the financial department of Dacon Corp. LTD at Queen's University in Canada. In 2002, he started working at the Ministry of Justice, where he was responsible for preparing draft financial plans for the Prison Service' salaries and wages. In 2006-2018, he was Mayor of the town of Ząbki. He also served as President of the Polish Local Governments Association (Związek Samorządów Polskich), in which he provided training services, and was a member of municipality and county councils.
Mr Robert Perkowski holds a function of the President of the Supervisory Board at Krajowa Spółka Cukrowa SA and Member of the Board of Directors at PGNiG Upstream Norway AS.
Jarosław Wróbel
Mr Wróbel completed MA studies and a postgraduate doctoral course at the University of Economics in Katowice. He also completed a postgraduate course at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Warsaw University of Technology as well as an Executive MBA programme (University of Gdańsk and RMS Erasmus University) and a Post-MBA programme (University of Gdańsk and Swiss Business School).
With the energy sector since 1992. From 1993 to 1999, he worked for Elektrociepłownia Będzin S.A., where he was responsible for the development and implementation of a restructuring programme as well as for the preparation and execution of the first capital privatisation in the Polish power industry via the Warsaw Stock Exchange ('IPO of the Year 2008' award).
With PGNIG S.A. since 2002. In 2003−2013, he served as Economic Vice President at Górnośląska Spółka Gazownictwa sp. z o.o. Author and Sponsor of the programme to implement an Integrated Platform for process support based on ERP and CIS solutions at Górnośląska Spółka Gazownictwa sp. z o.o. Then he carried out projects for fuel and power sector companies as well as for IT companies. One of the creators of the IT/OT model for the PGNiG Group.
Between January 8th and March 1st 2016, Mr Wróbel served as Member of the Management Board of Polska Spółka Gazownictwa Sp. z o.o., and from March 2nd 2016 to February 16th 2018 - as President of the company's Management Board.
Under his leadership, the Company developed and implemented a strategic package of changes for the Polish gas distribution industry for 2016-2022, and won the Polish Quality Award in the category of large economic organisations in 2017.
In the period April 17th 2018-December 31st 2019, Mr Wróbel was President of the Management Board of ORLEN Południe S.A. One of the creators and Sponsor of Programme to construct a modern biorefinery at ORLEN Południe S.A., based on the Trzebinia and Jedlicze Refineries, serving as a competence centre in biocomponents and biofuels for the ORLEN Group.
He completed numerous training courses in management, finance and IT. Author of publications in industry press. Grade III General Mining Director.
Arkadiusz Sekściński
Arkadiusz Sekściński holds a PhD in social sciences (political science) from the University of Warsaw. He was the organiser of the Internal Security study programme focusing on Energy Security, and a lecturer in such subjects as 'Poland's Energy Policy', 'Energy Policies of Contemporary Countries', 'Renewable Energy Sources' and 'Planning and Financing Investment Projects in the Energy Sector'. Author of research articles in Polish and English. He is now attending an MBA Energy programme at Lazarski University.
He held a scholarship from the Foundation for the Development of the Education System (University of Bergen, Norway), the Leonardo da Vinci Programme (the Białystok Province Regional Office, Brussels, Belgium), the Socrates - Erasmus Programme (Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece).
Mr Sekściński started his professional career in the energy sector in 2007, working as a consultant in companies providing advisory services to businesses operating in the heat and power sector. From 2011, he served as director and member of the Management Board of the Polish Wind Energy Association. In 2016, he joined PGE Energia Odnawialna S.A. where, as Vice President and acting President of the Management Board, he supervised investment projects, innovation, operation of generation assets, communication, human resources and security. He served as president of special purpose vehicles responsible for the construction of onshore wind farms and development of wind farm projects in the Baltic Sea. He was also Head of the Photovoltaic Development Programme at the PGE Group.
Mr. Arkadiusz Sekściński is employed at the University of Warsaw as an lecturer.
All Management Board Members have represented that they are not engaged in any other activities competing with the Company's business, they are not partners in any civil-law partnership or other type of partnership, or members of the governing bodies of any company competing with the Company, and they are not entered in the Register of Insolvent Debtors maintained under the National Court Register Act.