The company said in a statement that Magdalena Bartos, Robert Soszynski, and Vislaw Brogar will join the Orlin Board of Directors by decision of the Supervisory Board. Józef Węgrecki will bid farewell to his position as a member of the Orlen Board of Directors for this year.
On Tuesday, Orlin announced in a press release that, effective May 1, the company's Supervisory Board appointed Magdalena Bartos to the company's Board of Directors as Vice President of Finance, Robert Soszynski as Vice President of Strategy and Sustainable Development, and Wieslaw Brogar as a member of the Board of Directors of Upstream.
The announcement stated that the appointments relate to “the joint term of the Board of Directors, which ends on the date of the Ordinary General Assembly that approves the company’s financial statements for the year 2025.”
Who are the new members of the Supervisory Board?
Magdalena BartoszAs we read in Orlin's announcement, in the years 2019-2023 she served as a member of the Board of Directors of payment solutions company WAG, where she was responsible, among other things, for preparing and conducting Eurowag Group's stock exchange debut on the London Stock Exchange. In 2017-2018, she served as a member of the Board of Directors of Paged, and in 2014-2016, she served as Managing Director for Economic and Financial Affairs at PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna. She previously worked at Enea Operator and Nike Bosnia as CFO, and in 2009-2012 she was a member of the Board of Directors and CFO of Zelmer Group. In the years 2007-2009, in the Orlin Group, she was responsible for the integration of the financial area after the acquisition of the Mažeikiai Refinery and served as Deputy CFO of Mazeikiu Nafta, responsible for the areas of accounting, reporting and financial planning. . Magdalena Bartos is a graduate of the Faculty of Management at Poznań University of Economics. She also completed a series of ACCA examinations and postgraduate studies in Business Cooperation with Africa.
Robert Soszynski In 2008, he served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of CIECH Service, in 2008-2011 he was Chairman of the Board of Directors of PERN Przyjaźń, and he was also Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Polskie LNG in 2015. In the years 2018-21 he served as Vice Chairman of the Capital Warsaw. He is a graduate of, among others: Warsaw University of Technology (Faculty of Technical Physics and Applied Mathematics) and MBA studies at the University of Gdańsk.
Vislav Brogar, according to information provided by Orlin, has been associated with the industry since 1987, including with the Oil and Gas Institute, Gazomontas, Polskie Górnictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo and Orlin. Member of several industry organizations. A long-time member of the Advisory Board of the University of Utah's Energy and Geosciences Institute, he specializes in, among other things, innovative solutions for the oil and gas industry. As a consultant, he co-created Trend Energy Solutions' investments in low-emission power generation and renewable energy. Graduated from AGH University of Science and Technology. S.Staszic in Krakow, where he also obtained his Ph.D. He is also a graduate of Gliwice University of Technology and Warsaw School of Economics.
Removal of a member of the Board of Directors
The company also announced that at the same time the Supervisory Board had expelled Josef Wrjeki from the position of member of the Orlin Board of Directors. He will lose his job on April 30, 2024. Last week, the Supervisory Board of Orlin made this choice Irenaeus Vivara as new president. Witold Litaki became Vice President of Corporate Affairs and Senior Vice President.
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