Annual Report 2013

Mariusz ZawiszaPresident

appointed to the Management Board with effect from January 1st 2014

Mariusz Zawisza graduated from the Faculty of Economics of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin. He completed a post-graduate programme in Management Accounting and Control 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 also holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Central Lancashire in Preston, gained on completion of 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 until June 2006, as a Member of the Management Board responsible for finance at MPWiK w m. st. Warszawa SA. From 2006 to 2007, he was a 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 January 1st 2014, Mr Zawisza was appointed President of the Management Board of PGNiG SA.
Since February 4th 2014, he has performed the function of Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of EuRoPol GAZ SA, and since February 11th 2014 he has also chaired the Board of Directors of PGNiG Upstream International SA.

Jarosław BaucVice-President, Finance

appointed to the Management Board with effect from December 30th 2013

Jarosław Bauc is a graduate of the University of Łódź (Faculty of Economics and Sociology), where he was awarded his PhD in 1991. He also graduated from the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada, with a Master of Arts in Economics.
In 1996, he acted in an advisory capacity to the Minister of Finance in Mongolia, where he helped design reforms to the Mongolian tax system. In 1997, he served as an Asociatia Pro Democratia Adviser to the Romanian Ministry of Finance, and as a USAID Adviser to the Ministry of Finance in the Georgian government. Between 1998 and 2000, Mr Bauc served on the Supervisory Board of Bank PKO BP SA, for some time as its Chairman. 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.
Between 2002 and 2004, he served as President of the Management Board of Powszechne Towarzystwo Emerytalne Skarbiec-Emerytura (a pension fund management company), where in 2004–2006 he continued as Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board. From 2002 to 2005, Mr Bauc also sat as a Member of the Supervisory Boards of such companies as Mostostal Gdańsk SA, Tras Tychy SA, Netia SA, and in 2004–2006, he held the post of Chairman 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 to July 2006, and from May 2008 to November 2011. Then, from November 2011 to March 2012, he sat as its Member. Later, he became Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BNP Paribas Bank Polska SA and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Łódzka Spółka Infrastrukturalna Sp. z o.o. From August to December 2013, he served as Vice-President of the Management Board of HAWE SA.
Since 2009, he has served as a member of the Economics 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. Since February 2014, he has sat as Member of the Board of Directors of PGNiG Upstream International SA, and since April 2014, as Member of the Supervisory Board of Europol Gaz SA.

Jerzy KurellaVice-President, Trade

appointed to the Management Board with effect from June 14th 2013

Jerzy Kurella is a graduate of the Law and Administration Faculty at the University of Warsaw, and a legal counsel. From 1998 to 2002, he served as legal counsel at the Office of the Management Board of TUiR Partner SA and Garda Life SA, insurance companies of the SEB Group (Sweden). Between 2002 and 2007, he worked for PGNiG SA in a number of capacities, including the positions of Managing Director for Legal Support and Managing Director for Negotiations. He was responsible for legal aspects of the unbundling of the transmission system operator, debt restructuring, redemption of Eurobonds, listing of Company shares on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, and negotiations of key contracts and ventures.
From March 2007 to June 2008, Mr Kurella served as Member of the Management Board, and then as Vice-President of the Management Board, of BOT Górnictwo i Energetyka SA (BOT GiE), and was responsible for the BOT Group’s strategy and integration, its management and development, including supervision of IT, central procurement and logistics, and for legal support of BOT. From September 2008, he held the position of President of the Management Board of Wojskowe Towarzystwo Budownictwa Społecznego Sp. z o.o., and from September 2009 to June 2012, he was employed as Vice-President of the Management Board of Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego. From July 1st 2012, he served as Adviser to the President of the BGK Management Board. He has sat as a Member or Chairman on multiple Supervisory Boards of such companies as PF-K Gaskon SA, Investgas SA, BOT GiE SA, BOT Elektrownia Turów SA, BOT Elektrownia Bełchatów SA, KUKE SA, and Krajowy Fundusz Kapitałowy SA.
From June 14th to December 30th 2013, he was Vice-President of the Management Board of PGNiG SA, and from July 1st to December 30th 2013 he was its acting President. He also served as Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of EuRoPol GAZ SA and Chairman of the Board of Directors of PGNiG Upstream International. Currently Mr Kurella is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Gas-Trading SA and Member of the Board of Directors of PGNiG Upstream International. As of December 30th 2013, Mr Kurella was appointed Vice-President of the Management Board for Trade.

Zbigniew SkrzypkiewiczVice-President, Exploration & Production

appointed to the Management Board with effect from December 31st 2013

Mr 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. Afterwards, he was President of the Management Board of Finpol Rohr Sp. z o.o., a production company, from January 2005 to October 2013.
He was Member of the Supervisory Board of PGNiG SA from June 26th to December 30th 2013.

Waldemar WójcikVice-President

appointed to the Management Board with effect from April 3rd 2014

Mr Wójcik is a graduate of the Oil Drilling Faculty at the AGH University of Science and Technology of Kraków, with a degree of Master Engineer of Oil Mining.
In 1981, he began work at Sanocki Zakład Górnictwa Nafty i Gazu, initially as an administrative assistant at a Natural Gas Production Facility, then as a shift manager in the Well Workover Department, and then as Head of the Oil and Gas Production Facilities Centre in Przemyśl.
In 1994-1996, he was a member of the Employee Council at PGNiG. From 2001 to January 2009, he served as Director of Sanocki Zakład Górnictwa Nafty i Gazu of Sanok, and then as Director of the Sanok Branch of PGNiG. Between January 2009 and August 2010, he held the position of 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.