Management Board

Mariusz Zawisza
President

The President directs the Management Board’s activities and coordinates the work of all its members in all areas of the PGNiG Group’s business; the President also supervises and coordinates the Company’s operations with respect to the delivery of the PGNiG Group’s strategic objectives, comprehensive legal services, management of human resources, protection of classified information, defence issues, control and audit, planning and implementation of the Company’s trading policies, tariff policies, sales of natural gas, electricity and other products, cooperation with external partners with respect to imports of liquefied natural gas to Poland; moreover, the President’s duties include exercising the owner’s supervision within the PGNiG Group and oversight of the operations of the Wholesale Trading Division and of PGNiG’s foreign representative offices in Moscow and Brussels.

Mariusz Zawisza graduated from the Faculty of Economics of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin. He completed a post-graduate course in Management Accounting and Business Controlling at the Lublin University of Technology, and a post-graduate course in International Accounting Standards and International Financial Reporting Standards at Kozminski University in Warsaw. He holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Central Lancashire in Preston, gained on completing a programme run by the Lublin Business School.

For almost eighteen years, Mr Zawisza has held a number of managerial positions, including (chronologically, from 1996 to 1999) Head of the Economic and Marketing Research Department, Head of the Quality Assurance Department, and Head of the Financial Control Department
at Zakłady Remontowe Energetyki Lublin SA. From 1999 to 2001 he worked at Lubelskie Zakłady Przemysłu Skórzanego Protektor SA as Head of the Economics Research and Financial Control Department and as its Chief Economist.

Between 2001 and 2004 Mr Zawisza served as CFO and Member of the Management Board of Instal Lublin SA, and then, from June 2004 to June 2006, as Member of the Management Board responsible for finance at MPWiK w m.st. Warszawa SA. From 2006 to 2007 he was Member of the Management Board, CFO and President of the Management Board of Lubelskie Zakłady Energetyczne LUBZEL SA. From July 2007 until August 2010 he served as President of the Management Board of PGE Dystrybucja Lubzel Sp. z o.o., and from January 2010 to December 2013 as President of the Management Board of PGE Dystrybucja SA.

He has also sat on the Supervisory Boards of Elektrociepłownia Lublin Wrotków, EPC SA, Exatel SA, PGE Systemy SA, and others.

With effect from 1 January 2014, Mr Zawisza was appointed President of the Management Board of PGNiG.

Jarosław Bauc
Vice-President, Finance

The Vice-President of the Management Board for Finance supervises and coordinates the Company’s operations in the areas of investment policy planning and control and investor relations; moreover, the duties of Vice-President of the Management Board, Finance, include supervision of economic matters, accounting, business controlling, financial management, taxes, planning, and IT systems development and operation at PGNiG.

Jarosław Bauc is a graduate of the University of Łódź (Faculty of Economics and Sociology), where he was awarded a PhD in 1991. He also graduated from the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada, with an M.A. degree in Economics.

In 1996 he helped design reforms to the Mongolian tax system acting in an advisory capacity to the Minister of Finance in Mongolia. In 1997, he served as an Asociatia Pro Democratia Adviser to the Romanian Ministry of Finance.

Between 1998 and 2000 Mr Bauc served on the Supervisory Board of Bank PKO BP SA, for some time as its Chairperson. From January 1998 to June 2000, he held the office of Secretary of State at the Polish Ministry of Finance and First Deputy Minister of Finance. Then, between June 2000 and August 2001 he held the office of the Polish Minister of Finance. In 1998-2000 Mr Bauc represented the Polish Council of Ministers on the Monetary Policy Council of the National Bank of Poland.

In 2001-2002 he was a USAID Adviser to the Ministry of Finance of the Georgian government.

Between 2002 and 2006, for the first three years he served as President of the Management Board of Powszechne Towarzystwo Emerytalne Skarbiec-Emerytura (a pension fund management company), and then continued as Deputy Chairperson of the Supervisory Board.

From 2002 to 2005 Mr Bauc also sat on the Supervisory Boards of such companies as Mostostal Gdańsk SA, Tras Tychy SA, Netia SA, and in 2004-2006 he held the position of Chairperson of the Supervisory Board of BRE Skarbiec Investments and BRE Agent Transferowy Sp. z o.o. Between 2004 and 2006 he served as President of the Management Board of Skarbiec Investment Management SA, Skarbiec Towarzystwo Funduszy Inwestycyjnych SA and Skarbiec Asset Management Holding SA.

He held the post of President of the Management Board of Polkomtel SA twice − from February 2006 to July 2007, and from May 2008 to November 2011. Then, from November 2011 to March 2012, he sat as a member. He also became Deputy Chairperson of the Supervisory Board of BNP Paribas Bank Polska SA and Chairperson of the Supervisory Board of Łódzka Spółka Infrastrukturalna Sp. z o.o. In August 2013 he was appointed Vice-President of the Management Board of HAWE SA.

Since 2009 he has served as a member of the Economic Council of Cardinal Kazimierz Nycz, and since 2011 as a member of the Group of Social Advisers to the President of the City of Łódź.

With effect from 30 December 2013, Mr Bauc has been appointed Vice-President of the Management Board for Finance of PGNiG.

Zbigniew Skrzypkiewicz
Vice-President, Exploration & Production

The Vice-President of the Management Board for Exploration and Production supervises and coordinates the Company’s activities related to its policies, objectives and programmes with respect to hydrocarbon exploration and production in Poland and abroad, procurement strategies within the Company and the Group, safety and operation of the production systems and underground storage facilities, innovation and development projects involving PGNiG; moreover, the duties of Vice-President of the Management Board, Exploration and Production, include supervision over the operations of the Geology and Hydrocarbon Production Branch, the PGNiG branches in Odolanów, Sanok and Zielona Góra, the Well Mining Rescue Station in Kraków, the Mogilno Underground Gas Storage Cavern Facility and the Wierzchowice Underground Gas Storage Facility, as well as foreign branches.

Zbigniew Skrzypkiewicz graduated from the Faculty of Chemical Engineering of the Warsaw University of Technology. In 1996 he completed a post-graduate course in Business Administration at the Warsaw School of Economics.

From 1993 to 1997 he served as Deputy Head of Industrial Fittings at KSB Pompy i Armatura Sp. z o.o., a part of KSB AG, a leading global manufacturer of industrial pumps and fittings. From 1998 to 2000 he was Head of Sanitary and Heating Systems at Raab Karcher Materiały Budowlane Sp. z o.o.,the Polish arm of the large Germany-based trading company. He also held an executive position at Otto Poland Sp. z o.o., a German-owned manufacturing and trading company.

From May 2001 until December 2004 he was President of the Management Board of Instal Lublin SA, a company listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. Then, from January 2005 to October 2013, he was President of the Management Board of Finpol Rohr Sp. z o.o., a production company.

He was on the Supervisory Board of PGNiG from 26 June to 30 December 2013.

With effect from 31 December 2013, he was appointed Vice-President of the Management Board for Exploration & Production.

Waldemar Wójcik
Vice-President

The Vice-President of the Management Board elected by employees supervises and coordinates the Company’s operations in the areas of administrative management of the Company’s property (excluding network assets, extraction assets and underground gas storage facilities), occupational health and safety, cooperation with the transmission, distribution and storage system operators, collaboration with the trade unions, the Employee Council and other employee organisations within the Company and the PGNiG Group; he also supervises the operations of the Central Measurement and Testing Laboratory in Warsaw, and of the PGNiG foreign representative offices in Kiev and Vysokoye.

Waldemar Wójcik is a graduate of the faculty of drilling, oil and gas at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków, and holds a degree of Master Engineer of Oil Mining. He has worked for PGNiG since 1981. He was first employed at Sanocki Zakład Górnictwa Nafty i Gazu, initially serving as an administrative assistant at the Natural Gas Production Facility, then as a shift manager in the Well Workover Department, and after that as Head of the Administrative Centre for Oil and Gas Production Facilities in Przemyśl. From 1994 to 1996 he was a member of the PGNiG Employee Council. Between 2001 and his appointment as a member of the Management Board of PGNiG, Mr Wójcik held the position of Director of Sanocki Zakład Górnictwa Nafty i Gazu of Sanok and then Director of the PGNiG Branch in Sanok.

Between January 2009 and August 2010 he served as Vice-President of the Management Board of PGNiG in charge of Crude Oil Extraction. In September 2010, he was appointed to the Management Board of Polish Oil and Gas Company Libya BV.

On 18 June 2014 the PGNiG Supervisory Board resolved to suspend Andrzej Parafianowicz from his duties as Vice-President of the PGNiG Management Board for Corporate Affairs.

Andrzej Parafianowicz tendered his resignation as a member of the Management Board of PGNiG on 7 August 2014.

On 29 December 2014 the Supervisory Board dismissed Jerzy Kurella from the PGNiG Management Board and from his position as Vice-President for Trade.