The board of Aforti Holding S.A. (“Company”, “Issuer”) hereby announces, that on October 19th , 2016, two new members of the Supervisory Board were appointed in the Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders, in accordance to the Resolutions announced in the report no 34/2016 (EBI):
• Mr. Krzysztof Dresler – in accordance to the Resolution no 5
• Mr. Andrzej Podsiadło – in accordance to the Resolution no 6
Also, Mr. Maciej Stańczuk was approved as member of the Supervisory Board in the Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders, in accordance to the Resolution no 4 of the Resolution of Supervisory Board of September 22nd, 2016. The new supervisory board members’ term – once approved in the Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders –will expire at the same time as that of the remaining supervisory board members, i.e. once the three year term concludes.
Notes of the appointed members of the Supervisory Board:
Krzysztof Dresler has over 20 years of experience in banking and capital market institutions. Currently he is partner and co-owner of BAAK Company – banking loans and capital market advisory and Capitalia Company. He also is CEO and co-owner of ICRA – individual clients’ risk assessment company and CEO and co-owner of Insurance Group Service. Krzysztof served over a decade in the banking sector: he was Vice President of Management Board in PKO BP in charge of Risk and Collection and also investment banking in the years 2008-2011. He chaired the Asset and Liabilities Committee and the Central Credit Committee in PKO BP. In 2012, he was recognized with “Order of Merit in Banking for the Republic of Poland” awarded by the President of the National Bank of Poland. In previous years, Krzysztof supervised assets and liabilities operations – as the managing director in Pekao SA. In 1996-2001, he worked for Polish National Depositary of Securities (KDPW) on a risk management system for new derivative entries on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. Throughout his professional career, Krzysztof attended countless seminars and conferences. Among others, Krzysztof did an internship at Depository Trust Company (New York). Krzysztof is a member of Global Association of Risk Professionals, Professional Risk Management International Association, the Board of Capital Market Leaders Academy (Lesław Paga Foundation of 2065), and the Board of EFPA Poland Foundation for Financial Advisory Standards
Andrzej Podsiadło graduated from the Main School of Planning and Statistics (SGPiS), Department of Production Economics where he Defended doctoral dissertation. He started his career as an academic employee in the Main School of Planning and Statistics in the Institute of Economic Development. Next years he worked as the Director of the Economic Analysis Unit, Director of the Economic Policy Unit Planning in the Commission of the Council of Ministers. In the years 1989 – 1992 Andrzej served as Secretary of State and then as First Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Finance. He was the President of the Management Board in Powszechny Bank Handlowy SA GECOBANK and the Deputy President of the Management Board in Powszechna Kasa Oszczędności Bank Polski S.A. He served as President of the Management Board in Powszechny Bank Kredytowy S.A. in Warsaw in the years 1995-2002 and as President of the Management Board in Powszechna Kasa Oszczędności Bank Polski S.A. in the years 2002-2007. Andrzej also served as the Chairman of the Supervisory Board at PKO TFI S.A. and President of the Board in The Polish Red Cross (PCK). In the previous years, among others, he was a Member of the Supervisory Board of Towarzystwo Ubezpieczeń i Reasekuracji „Warta” S.A., Polskie Koleje Państwowe, Powszechne Towarzystwo Emerytalne PBK S.A., Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie, Bank Pocztowy, Górnośląski Bank Gospodarczy.
All the new members of the Supervisory Board made statements about their Supervisory Board Member’s independence criteria fulfillment in accordance to the European Commission’s 2 nd Annex to the Commission Recommendation of February 15th, 2005 on the role of non-executive directors, members of the Supervisory Boards of stock exchange companies and committees of the supervisory boards (Dz.U.UE.L.05.52.51) and additional requirements indicated in Good Practices of Stock Exchange Companies in accordance to the Annex to the The Exchange Supervisory Board’s Resolution Nr 12/1170/2007 of July 4th, 2007.
Legal ground: Article 3 paragraph 1 point 7 of Annex no 3 to the Alternative Trading System Rules, “Current and Periodical Information in the Alternative Trading System on the NewConnect Market”.
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