The Management Board and the Supervisory Board of the Parent Entity

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Bios and responsibilities of members of the Management Board

Marcin Chludziński – President of the Management Board

(fulfilling his duties for a continuous period from 6 July 2018)

Since January 2016 the member of the Supervisory Board of PZU S.A. and simultaneously (since June 2018) the President of the Management Board of Agencja Rozwoju Przemysłu S.A., where he was responsible for the restructuring, merger and acquisition processes. Defined the strategic development directions in Agencja Rozwoju Przemysłu S.A. He restructured the following companies: Przewozy Regionalne, H. Cegielski – Fabryka Pojazdów Szynowych and Świętokrzyskie Kopalnie Surowców Mineralnych. Co-founder and President of the Management Board of Invent Grupa Doradztwa i Treningu Sp. z o.o. in the years 2006–2015. President of the economic think tank Fundacja Republikańska (Republican Foundation) in the years 2011–2015.

Graduate of the Institute of Social Policy at the University of Warsaw. He finished his MBA at the Institute of Economics, Polish Academy of Sciences. He co-operated as a lecturer with University of Warsaw, Collegium Civitas and Lazarski University.

He has management experience in the strategic consulting and corporate supervision. He specializes in corporate development restructuring and capital investments.

The President of the Management Board is responsible for:

  • activities related to overall risk management at the corporate level as well as internal auditing and controlling within the Group;
  • the preparation, implementation and execution of the Company’s Strategy and Sustainable Development Policy;
  • activities related to comprehensive management of security and preventing losses in the Group;
  • the application of the adopted corporate governance principles in the Company;
  • activities related to the development and preparation for implementation of solutions as regards organization and management in the Company, including designing and developing the Company’s organizational structure;
  • providing organizational services to the Company’s bodies;
  • providing legal services to the Company’s bodies with the exception of the Supervisory Board;
  • activities related to communications and corporate image-building within the Group;
  • the shaping of relations with the Company’s external business environment;
  • activities related to human resources management;
  • activities related to the development projects in the field of energy.

Andrzej Kensbok – Vice President of the Management Board (Finance)

(appointed as at 16 April 2021)

From 6 February 2020 to 24 March 2021 he served as the President of the Management Board of Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa, where he was responsible among others for consolidating the group around key technology.
Previously (2019-2020) he was associated with KGHM Polska Miedź S.A. He was executive director for strategic projects as well as the President & CEO of KGHM INTERNATIONAL LTD. in Canada. There he carried out a program to increase ore extraction and processing in the Robinson mine/Nevada and to prepare the Victoria deposit to commence exploratory work.

Since 2018 Chairman of the Supervisory Board of PKP S.A. From March 2017 to June 2019 he was Vice President of the Management Board of Agencja Rozwoju Przemysłu S.A. (Industrial Development Agency) and was responsible for finance, corporate supervision and equity transactions. From 2015 he was on the supervisory board and served as the proxy of the management board for restructuring of “Masfrost” companies.

A graduate of the Catholic University of Lublin, with a Master’s Degree in philosophy and theoretical physics. He completed MBA studies at INSEAD Business School where he specialized in costs management and the reorganisation of business processes.

Has many years of experience in economic and financial consulting.

The Vice President of the Management Board (Finance) is responsible for:

  • the shaping of the Group’s financial policy;
  • the review of the Strategy’s projects in terms of their financial feasibility;
  • finances in all of the Group’s operations and activities;
  • the creation of the Group tax policy;
  • the Company’s accounting services;
  • compliance with formal reporting and publishing obligations within the scope required by law;
  • activities related to building and maintaining relations with investors on the Polish and international market;
  • the activities of the Data Centre (COPI) with respect to supplying and developing information and communication services required for the proper functioning of the Company and the companies of the KGHM Polska Miedź S.A. Group.

Paweł Gruza – Vice President of the Management Board (International Assets)

(fulfilling his duties for a continuous period from 10 September 2018)

Graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw.

Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Finance from November 2016. Co-author of the tax reform. Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of the State Treasury from April to November 2016. He managed a portfolio of companies with State Treasury ownership and state legal entities. He worked on reforming supervision over State Treasury companies. An expert and a management board member of Fundacja Republikańska (Republican Foundation) from 2007 to 2016. As a representative of the minister responsible for financial institutions he was also a member of the Polish Financial Supervision Authority.

He was a partner and a management board member of MMR Consulting sp. z o.o., as well as a partner in the tax consultant office GWW Tax from 2007 to 2016. He worked in the Arthur Andersen and Ernst & Young consultancy companies from 2000 to 2006. He managed interdisciplinary consultant projects for Polish and international companies from the industrial and financial sector.

Author and co-author of numerous publications on taxes and social security.

The Vice President of the Management Board (International Assets) is responsible for:

  • the preparation and implementation of strategy for international assets;
  • activities related to acquiring and developing the international resource base;
  • analysis, assessment and preparation of new international exploration projects;
  • preparation of studies and expert opinions as regards international resource base projects;
  • coordination of tasks with respect to the Company’s equity investments plan as regards international subsidiaries;
  • substantive oversight over the Group’s international production subsidiaries, including the creation and execution of their production plans;
  • the shaping of the Company’s commercial and logistics policies;
  • the identification of international mining projects with the potential to provide development opportunities for the Company.

Adam Bugajczuk – Vice President of the Management Board (Development)

(fulfilling his duties for a continuous period from 24 August 2018)

Graduate of the Wrocław University of Economics, Faculty of Economics, Management and Tourism. He completed an Executive MBA – Business Trends program at WSB University in Wrocław.

Involved with PKO Bank Polski S.A. from January 2011, where he served as a manager and director. Among others, he was responsible for supervision over the execution of investment projects and optimisation of business processes, as well the preparation of development plans and improvements in supervised areas. Co-responsible for execution of cost optimisation under the bank’s business strategy.

Supported the process of business expansion of PKO Bank Polski S.A. Responsible for the implementation of procurement policy in the Group’s companies.

He was employed from 2002 to 2010 in the company Bank Zachodni WBK S.A., where he cooperated in the implementation of investment projects. He was also responsible for the optimisation of and supervision over the realisation of network contracts.

He has extensive experience in the areas of standardisation and normalisation of business processes.

The Vice President of the Management Board (Development) is responsible for:

  • advancement of the Company’s R&D policy;
  • advancement of the Company’s innovation and intellectual property protection policy;
  • coordination of the Company’s investments and development projects;
  • the development, updating and monitoring of execution of the Company’s consolidated equity investments portfolio;
  • shaping of the Company’s portfolio of development projects;
  • initiation, development and implementation of management standards in the process of managing projects and portfolios;
  • acquisition and development of the mining resources base in Poland;
  • management of real estate;
  • overseeing the Company’s administrative services;
  • development of the mining structure;
  • development of the production lines;
  • coordination of the purchasing processes in the Group.

Marek Pietrzak – Vice President of the Management Board (Corporate Affairs)

(appointed as of 26 October 2021)

Until October 2021 he served as President of the Management Board of Orlen Asfalt Sp. z o.o. Currently, he serves as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Polskie Radio Regionalna Rozgłośnia w Warszawie, Radio dla Ciebie S.A. and as a member of the Supervisory Board of Alior Bank S.A. From December 2016 until October 2021 he served as a Member of the Supervisory Board of KGHM Polska Miedź S.A.

A graduate of the Department of Law and Administration of Łazarski University in Warsaw and the Department of Economics of the Private Higher School of Business and Administration in Warsaw. In 2013, he finished his legal adviser apprenticeship in the District Chamber of Legal Advisers in Warsaw and was licensed to perform the profession.

He also finished management and business studies (MBA) at the Warsaw Management University, accredited by the Apsley Business School of London and was granted the title of Executive Master of Business Administration. A graduate of post-graduate studies in Accounting and Corporate Finance of the SGH Warsaw School of Economics.

He has professional experience in public administration and practical experience in the supervision and management of commercial law companies, including those where the State Treasury is one of the shareholders.

The Vice President of the Management Board (Corporate Affairs) is responsible for:

  • corporate supervision standards;
  • overall corporate oversight over the Group’s subsidiaries in Poland and abroad;
  • activities related to creating, updating and maintaining the uniformity of the organisation’s internal regulations to maintain consistent operating principles;
  • ensuring legal services to the statutory bodies of the Company with regard to the Supervisory Board of the Company;
  • ensuring legal services to the Company, with the exclusion of the scope assigned to the President of the Management Board;
  • on the Founder’s behalf – supervision of the functioning of the KGHM Polish Copper Foundation as well as other organisations serving the public, which support achievement of the Group’s business goals.

Marek Świder – Vice President of the Management Board (Production)

(appointed as at 15 March 2022)

Since the start of his professional career, i.e. since 1996, he has been connected with KGHM Polska Miedź S.A., where he has held positions such as Executive Director of the Rudna mine, Executive Director for Mining in the International Assets, Chief Mining Engineer and Director of the Projects Management Department. In the years 2015-2016 he was responsible for production in the position of Vice President, Production Control in KGHM INTERNATIONAL LTD.

Until 14 March 2022 he served as Executive Director of the Polkowice-Sieroszowice Mine Division of KGHM Polska Miedź S.A., where he managed the production structure.

He has mainly been responsible for planning the development of the core production line, searching for and implementing new technology and methods for managing organisational structures in the copper company.

He is a graduate of Wrocław University of Science and Technology and has a Master’s Degree in Mine Engineering with specialisation in techniques for mining underground deposits. He has completed post-graduate studies in costs management as well as MBA studies – Master of Business Administration.

He has many years of professional experience in strategic planning, management and mining technology which he acquired during work both in Poland and in the international production assets of the KGHM Polska Miedź S.A. Group.

The Vice President of the Management Board (Production) is responsible for:

  • the integrated planning and optimisation of the Company’s current production;
  • occupational health and safety and control of environmental risks;
  • activities with respect to maintaining the readiness of the production and nonproduction assets and achievement of the main goals of the Energy Strategy;
  • activities with respect to manufacturing products and the development of mine and metallurgical production;
  • overseeing activities connected with the implementation, maintenance and improvement of management systems in the Company;
  • integrated supply chain management.

Biograms of members of the Supervisory Board

Agnieszka Winnik-Kalemba – Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board

(Member of the Supervisory Board of KGHM Polska Miedź S.A. since 2016)

Attorney, graduate of the Department of Law of Wrocław University. Also a graduate of the faculty of Public Administration at Georgetown University in Washington D.C.; and of the faculty of Public Administration and Business Law at the University of Kentucky.

She passed her bar exam in 2003 under the District Bar Council in Wrocław and was licensed to work in the profession.

Since 2003 owner of a Law Office. In the years 2006 – 2010 served as an advisor and regular associate of the late Member of Parliament Aleksandra NataliiŚwiat. In the years 1999 – 2003 gained experience as an apprentice attorney-at-law at Kazimierz Cyrklewicz’s Law Office in Wrocław. In addition, was previously Manager of the Legal Services Office of the Lower Silesia Marshal’s Office in Wrocław and was Legal Assistant to the Chairman of the Chamber of Regions of the European Council in Strasbourg,. Also gained experience as Legal Assistant in the Law Offices of Bowles, Keating, Matuszewich & Fiordalisi Chicago – Milan – Rome, a Partnership of Professional Corporation, Chicago USA. In the years of 2006-2008 was the member of the Supervisory Board of PKO Bank Polski S.A., and in 2016 was Deputy Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board of PKO Bank Polski S.A. Since 2021 again a Member of the Supervisory Board of PKO Bank Polski S.A.

 

Katarzyna Krupa – Deputy Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board

(Member of the Supervisory Board of KGHM Polska Miedź S.A. since 2021)

Graduate of the Faculty of Management at the University of Warsaw. Employee of the Ministry of State Assets, where she supervises the section responsible for the supervision of companies with a majority interest held by the State Treasury. In the years 1998-2017 she was an employee of the Ministry of the State Treasury, subsequently of the Ministry of Development, engaged in tasks involving ownership transformation and ownership supervision. She gained professional skills by working in corporate bodies of capital companies. She was a member among others in supervisory boards of companies: Zakłady Azotowe Puławy S.A., Kopex S.A., Warmińsko-Mazurska Specjalna Strefa Ekonomiczna S.A.

Has many years of experience in conducting ownership supervision of companies with interest held by the State Treasury and in transactions on the capital market.

She is a member of the Supervisory Board of the company Pol-Mot Holding S.A. in restructurisation with its registered head office in Warsaw.

 

Jarosław Janas – Secretary of the Supervisory Board

(Member of the Supervisory Board of KGHM Polska Miedź S.A. since 2018)

An attorney with a doctorate in law from Wrocław. From 2009 to 2010 he researched British public healthcare at the University of Exeter School of Law (UK), resulting in a doctorate, “Prywatyzacja brytyjskiego sektora publicznego na przykładzie National Health Service” (“Privatisation of the British public sector, illustrated by the National Health Service”). An entrepreneur continuously from 1999, an academic teacher, member of the management board of Fundacja Sancta Familia (Sancta Familia Foundation) in Wrocław since 2005, Chairman of the Estate Council of Biskupin-Sępolno-BartoszowiceDąbie in the years 2009-2013, a volunteer in Ilford Park Polish Home (UK) 2009-2010, member of the Wrocławska Rada ds. Budżetu Obywatelskiego (Wrocław Citizen’s Budget Council) in the years 2015- 2017, member of the Supervisory Board of Polska Agencja Inwestycji i Handlu S.A. (State Treasury) from 2016 to 2018, and an expert in healthcare reform, since 2020 Member of the Council of Narodowy Fundusz Zdrowia (National Health Fund). In the years 2011-2019 he was an author of research papers on British law, privatisation of the public sector, judicial control of public administration and healthcare law. He has more than twenty years of experience in management.

 

Józef Czyczerski

(Member of the Supervisory Board of KGHM Polska Miedź S.A. since 2012)

Secondary technical education. Since 1979 employed in the Rudna mine of KGHM Polska Miedź S.A., an underground electromechanic. Chairman of the National Section of Copper Ore Mining of NSZZ Solidarność. Employee-elected member of the Supervisory Board of KGHM Polska Miedź S.A. in the years 1999-2011, and then from 2014.

 

Robert Kaleta

(Member of the Supervisory Board of KGHM Polska Miedź S.A. since 2021)

Graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw.

Since July 2019 has served as President of the Management Board of the company Energa Operator Wykonawstwo Elektroenergetyczne sp. z o.o. with its registered head office in Słupsk, which carries out construction projects involving the development and maintenance of power distribution networks. He acquired professional experience in management positions in economic entities and with respect to ownership supervision. Since 1995 through his own business he has provided consulting services for a variety of companies in the public and private sector in many industries, including transportation, construction and related to education.

As Vice President of the Management Board of the Foundation “Universitatis Varsoviensis” since 1996 he has been responsible for advancing a variety of cultural, educational and charitable initiatives and promoting economic patriotism.

He also gained many years of experience in ownership supervision by serving among others on Supervisory Boards: Przedsiębiorstwo Budowy Kopalń Pebeka S.A., KGHM ZANAM S.A., Trade Trans Karya sp. z o.o. and Wytwórnia Lin Stalowo-Gumowych SAG sp. z o.o.

 

Andrzej Kisielewicz

(Member of the Supervisory Board of KGHM Polska Miedź S.A. since 2018)

Graduate of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Wrocław. He received his doctorate in mathematics at the Polish Academy of Science in Warsaw. He habilitated at the University of Wrocław and was awarded the title of Professor of Mathematics in 2001. He is currently a professor at the Wrocław University of Technology.

He gained his professional experience in foreign research centres: University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, Canada, 1989-1990), Technische Hochschule Darmstadt (Germany, 1990-1992), Vanderbilt University (Nashville, USA, 2001- 2002). In addition, he has held a number of short-term internships abroad, among others in France, Italy, Austria and Israel. He is the recipient of two of the world’s most prestigious academic scholarships: the Alexander von Humboldt Scholarship and the Fulbright Scholarship.

He also has many years of experience in supervisory boards. Among others, he was a member and chairman of the supervisory boards of such companies as „Spedtrans” sp. z o.o., „Teta” S.A. and PKO BP S.A. At present he is a Member of the Supervisory Board of PKO Bank Polski S.A.

He is the author of more than eighty scientific publications on mathematics, logic and computer science in foreign journals, as well as three books in Polish „Logika i argumentacja” (Logic and argumentation), „Sztuczna inteligentencja i logika” (Artificial intelligence and logic), „Wprowadzenie do informatyki” (Introduction to computer science).

 

Bartosz Piechota

(Member of the Supervisory Board of KGHM Polska Miedź S.A. since 2018)

Bartosz Piechota is an advocate, a graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw and Cardiff University Law School (Diploma in Legal Studies), as well as IESE Business School Barcelona (Advanced Management Program, AMP). He also graduated from the School of American Law run by the University of Florida Levin College of Law and the Warsaw University. He has many years of experience in providing legal advice to the largest Polish and foreign enterprises. He is identified by international rankings including Legal500 2019 and 2020 as a leading lawyer, in particular in dispute resolution and restructuring/ insolvency. He has advised, for instance, on a number of key infrastructure investments and numerous restructuring proceedings. He was a founding partner of a leading dispute resolution and restructuring law firm in Poland. He previously worked in international and Polish law firms, including Allen & Overy and Wardyński & Partners.

From 2014 to 2016, he was the „Liaison Officer” of the International Bar Association’s Restructuring and Insolvency Section responsible for the Central and Eastern Europe area. He was a member of the International Bar Association as well as author of publications and speaker at international and national conferences. Since August 2019, he has been Vice President of the Management Board of the Polish Aviation Group.

From 2016 to 2019, he was a member of the Supervisory Board of PLL LOT S.A., and from October 2018 to July 2019, he served, by delegation, as a member of the Management Board of PLL LOT S.A. He has worked as an expert with the Republican Foundation for many years.

Bartosz Piechota was appointed as a member having knowledge and skills in accounting resulting from his education (among others, graduation from IESE Business School within the Advanced Management Program (AMP) experience and professional practice – performing the function of a member of the management board in commercial law companies, including the one responsible for the finance area, performing the function of a member of supervisory boards, including the function of a member of audit committees of supervisory boards, consulting in restructuring processes and performing the function of a chairman of creditors’ councils in restructuring proceedings.

 

Bogusław Szarek

(Member of the Supervisory Board of KGHM Polska Miedź S.A. since 2012)

Secondary technical education.

Since 1982 employed at the Sieroszowice Mine of KGHM Polska Miedź S.A. in the position: mining machinery and tools mechanic.

Since 1992 Chairman of the Plant Committee of the trade union NSZZ „Solidarność” in the Sieroszowice Mine. Following the merger of the Polkowice and Sieroszowice mines, since 1996 Chairman of the Plant Committee of the trade union NSZZ „Solidarność” in the Polkowice-Sieroszowice mine. Since 2012 an employee-elected Member of the Supervisory Board of KGHM Polska Miedź S.A.

Deputy Chairman of the National Section of Copper Ore Mining of NSZZ „Solidarność”. Treasurer of the Board of the Secretary Office for Mining and Energy of the trade union NSZZ „Solidarność”. Member of the National Committee of the trade union NSZZ „Solidarność”.

 

Przemysław Darowski

(Member of the Supervisory Board of KGHM Polska Miedź S.A. since 2020)

He has higher technical education. Started his professional career in 1997 as a locksmith, thereafter as a Specialist of railway rolling stock at Pol-Miedź Trans Sp. z o.o. From 2003, he was the Head of the Planning and Settlement of Renovations Department and Renovations Control, subsequently the Manager of the Railway Operations Department in Głogów. Since 2006, Senior Specialist/ Commissioner of the Carriage Maintenance Department. He cooperated with Legnica Municipality, on behalf of which the Complex of Technical and Comprehensive School of Henryk Pobożny in Legnica is run, in the field of conducting trainings and examinations for train drivers and candidates for train drivers.

Former member of railway commissions at PolMiedź Trans that investigate railway accidents and incidents. In addition, in 2017-2019, he held an office of a Social Labour Inspector.

Currently, Chairman of the Intercompany Committee of NSSZ „Solidarność” in Pol-Miedź Trans. Member of the National Section of Copper Ore Mining of NSSZ „Solidarność”. Member of the Board of the Copper Basin Region of NSSZ „Solidarność”.

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