Legal grounds:
§ 5 point 4 and point 5 of the Regulation of the Minister of Finance dated 29 March 2018 on current and periodic information published by issuers of securities and on the conditions under which such information may be recognized as being equivalent to information required by the regulations of law of a state which is not a member state
The report:
The Management Board of PKO Bank Polski SA (“Bank”) hereby informs that on 7 June 2021, pursuant to the Art. 385 § 1 of the Commercial Companies Code, the Bank’s Annual General Meeting (“AGM”) dismissed the member of the Bank’s Supervisory Board – Ms Elżbieta Ciurzyńska.
Additionally the AGM - pursuant to Art. 385 § 1 of the Commercial Companies Code – appointed Mr. Dominik Kaczmarski, Mr. Maciej Łopiński, Ms Agnieszka Winnik – Kalemba as members of the Bank’s Supervisory Board.
The State Treasury as the Eligible Shareholder, pursuant to paragraph 12.1 of the Bank’s Articles of Association, appointed:
- Maciej Łopiński - for the position of the Chairman of the Supervisory Board,
- Wojciech Jasiński - for the position of the Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board.
Information about the appointed Supervisory Board members:
Dominik Kaczmarski
Dominik Kaczmarski graduated from the Department of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw with the Master of Arts degree in law. He has the attorney-at-law qualification.
He gained professional experience working for the biggest international advisory firms (PwC in 2012-2014 and Deloitte in 2014-2016) as an expert in taxation of the financial sector.
From February 2016 to January 2020, he worked at the Ministry of Finance as Deputy Director of the Sectoral, Local and Gambling Taxes Department, and subsequently as the Deputy Director and Department Director of the Tax System Department. He dealt with tax on certain financial institutions and participated in the sealing of the tax system in the area of CIT and VAT, among others through the STIR (Clearing House Data Communications System) regulation.
He performed the following functions: Secretary of the Anti-Tax Avoidance Council, member of the State Examination Board for Tax Advisors, member of the General Tax Law Codification Commission, and member of the team of corporate law experts working as part of the Commission for Corporate Governance Reform.
From March 2020 to June 2021, Mr Kaczmarski was a member of the Supervisory Board of PKN Orlen S.A., and since June 2020 he has been a member (since July 2020 – the Chairman) of the Supervisory Board of Giełda Papierów Wartościowych w Warszawie S.A. (the Warsaw Stock Exchange).
At present, he performs the function of Director of the Analyses and Reporting Department at the Ministry of State Assets.
Maciej Łopiński
A graduate of the University of Wrocław. Editor-in-chief of Tygodnik Gdański (the Gdańsk Weekly), journalist at Głos Wybrzeża, Tygodnk Czas and other magazines. Deputy to the Sejm (the Polish Parliament) of the 7th term. In the years 2005-2010, Secretary of State at the Chancellery of the President of Poland, Lech Kaczyński, and in the years 2015-2016 - at the Chancellery of the President of Poland, Andrzej Duda. Mr Łopiński has many years of experience in corporate law and corporate governance gained at the supervisory bodies of various companies, including PZU S.A., KGHM Polska Miedź S.A., PZU Asset Management S.A., Telewizja Polska S.A.
Agnieszka Winnik – Kalemba
Agnieszka Winnik - Kalemba graduated from the Department of Law and Administration of the University of Wrocław in 1995. In the years 1995-1997, she participated in the post-graduate scholarship programme funded by the US government at Gergeotown University in Washington D.C. and the University of Kentucky the James W. Martin School of Public Policy and Administration. In the years 1999-2003, she trained to become an attorney-at-law.
Since 2003, she has run her own law firm - Kancelaria Adwokacka Adw. Agnieszka Winnik- Kalemba. In the years 1986-1989, she cooperated with the Regional Executive Committee of the “Solidarity” Trade Union - the Lower Silesia Region (Regionalny Komitet Wykonawczy NSZZ Solidarność Region Dolny Śląsk) and the “Solidarity” Committee for Interventions and the Rule of Law (Komisja Interwencji i Praworządności NSZZ Solidarność) run by Zofia and Zbigniew Romaszewski. In the years 1989-2000, she worked for: the Executive Office of the “Solidarity” Trade Union - the Lower Silesia Region; the Law Offices of Bowles, Keating, Matuszewich & Fiordalisi a Partnership of Professional Corporation, Chicago USA (as a legal assistant); the Chairman of the Chamber of Regions of the Council of Europe (as a legal assistant); the Vivodeship Sejmik of Wrocław Voivodship; the Legal Office of the Lower Silesian Marshal Office in Wrocław (as its director).
In the years 2006-2008, Ms. Winnik - Kalemba was a member of the Supervisory Board of PKO Bank Polski S.A., and in 2016 she was the Deputy Chair of the Supervisory Board of PKO Bank Polski S.A.
At present she is a member of the Supervisory Board of KGHM Polska Miedź S.A.
Moreover, the Bank hereby informs that the new members of the Supervisory Board, declared that:
- he/she is not a member of any other governing body of legal person competing with the Bank;
- he/she doesn’t conduct any business competitive to the business of the Bank;
- he/she doesn’t participate in any business competitive in respect of the Bank as a partner in a civil-law partnerships, a partnership or a capital company;
- he/she is not registered in the Register of Insolvent Debtors.