Management Board

Mr Piotr Woźniak graduated from the University of Warsaw in 1980 with a degree in geology. Until 1989, he was an assistant at the Geological Institute in Warsaw. In 1990−1991, he served as an adviser to the Minister of Agriculture and to the Minister of Industry. He was the Trade Commissioner of the Republic of Poland in Canada in 1992−1996. In 1998−2000, Mr Woźniak was an adviser on infrastructure to the Polish Prime Minister. He served as a member of the PGNiG Supervisory Board in 1999−2000 and Vice President of the Management Board from June 2000. In the 2002−2006 term, he was a member of the Warsaw City Council, and in 2005−2007 he was the Minister of Economy. From December 2011 to December 2013, Mr Woźniak served as the Deputy Minister of Environment and Chief State Geologist. He is a lecturer at the Łazarski University and at the Warsaw School of Economics and a member of the Council of the Maria Grzegorzewska University in Warsaw. From December 2009, he served as the Chairman, and as of March 2014 the Deputy Chairman of the Administrative Board of the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER). On December 4th, 2015, the Minister of State Treasury appointed Piotr Woźniak as member of the Supervisory Board of PGNiG SA. On December 11th, 2015, the PGNiG Supervisory Board delegated Piotr Woźniak, member of the PGNiG Supervisory Board, to temporarily perform the duties of President of the PGNiG Management Board from December 11th, 2015 to March 11th, 2016. On February 11th, 2016, Mr Wozniak was appointed President of the Management Board of PGNiG SA for the term of office ending December 30th, 2016.

On December 19th, 2016, he was appointed President of the Management Board of PGNiG SA for the three-year term of office beginning December 31st, 2016.

The President directs the Management Board’s meetings and coordinates the work of Management Board members in all areas of the PGNiG Group’s activity and performs any other activities which are within the President’s powers in accordance with the Company’s internal regulations. The President also supervises and coordinates the Company’s operations with respect to internal control and audit functions, in accordance with commonly accepted standards of internal audit, HR strategies, remuneration and working time systems, employment and payroll policy, cooperation with trade unions, the Employee Council and other employee organisations in respect of the Company and the PGNiG Group, protection of confidential information, protection of personal data, defence, protection of the Company’s facilities, management of the PGNiG Group, including exercise of corporate supervision at the PGNiG Group, establishment of new companies within the PGNiG Group to pursue new projects undertaken as part of the PGNiG Group’s strategy, preparing and implementing privatisation plans for companies where PGNiG is a shareholder, developing and overseeing implementation of the PGNiG Group’s Strategy, optimising the PGNiG Group’s structure, policy, objectives and projects related to hydrocarbon exploration and production in Poland and abroad, overseeing all licencing processes related to hydrocarbon exploration, appraisal and production as well as the storage of waste matter in rock mass and non-reservoir storage of substances in accordance with the geological and mining law, development of technical assumptions and regulations, norms and standards applicable in the area of oil drilling, operation and safety of production systems and underground storage facilities, standardization and oversight of uniform quality systems within the Company, acquisition of foreign upstream assets, planning, development and operation of the Company’s IT systems, implementation of the PGNiG Group’s strategic objectives at the Group companies in the areas of IT development and management, comprehensive legal support protecting PGNiG’s legal interests, uniform application of general laws, including EU laws, issuance of official orders and circulars for the Company, organisational and technical support of the Company’s governing bodies, operations of the Geology and Hydrocarbon Production Branch, the PGNiG Branches in Odolanów, Sanok and Zielona Góra, Well Mining Rescue Station in Kraków and the Company’s foreign branches and foreign representative offices in Moscow.

Mr Radosław Bartosik graduated from the Faculty of Drilling, Oil and Gas of the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków. He also completed a number of post-graduate courses, e.g. in business management, marketing and electricity, heat and gas market. Radosław Bartosik holds an MBA degree and passed the examination for candidates for members of the supervisory boards of state-owned companies. He is a qualified technical supervisor of mining operations. Save for a four-year interval, Radosław Bartosik has worked for the PGNiG Group since 1997. He started his career with PGNiG in the Zielona Góra Branch, where he gained professional experience first working in oil and gas production facilities and then as Marketing Specialist and head of the Contracts and Tenders Department. In 2006, he was appointed Economic and Commercial Director. Three years later he moved to Warsaw, where he became Deputy Director of PGNiG’s Branch Operator Systemu Magazynowania (currently Gas Storage Poland sp. z o.o., a subsidiary of PGNiG SA). He was also a Chief Specialist for EU Funds at the PGNiG Head Office. Until the end of 2016, Radosław Bartosik was Deputy Economic Director at the Warsaw Branch of Polska Spółka Gazownictwa Sp. z o.o.

On December 19th, 2016, he was appointed Vice President of the Management Board, Chief Operating Officer, for the three-year term of office beginning December 31st, 2016.

Vice President of the Management Board, Chief Operating Officer, supervises and coordinates the Company’s operations in the area of corporate social responsibility (CSR), the Company’s and the PGNiG Group’s procurement strategy, management of the Company’s assets (excluding network assets, extraction assets and underground gas storage facilities), including the Company’s real estate, creation and implementation of sponsorship policy and the Company’s brand image in Poland and abroad as well as cooperation with transmission and distribution system operators.

Mr Łukasz Kroplewski holds MA degrees in law and in administration. He gained professional experience by serving in public administration and taught intellectual property law at the Koszalin University of Technology. He has close ties with the HR industry, where he worked from 2005 holding managerial positions. He has provided legal and business consultancy support to corporations. Since 2009, he has been a member of the Self-Government Board of Appeals and is one of the founders of the Mediation Centre at the Association of Merchants and Entrepreneurs in Koszalin, where he works as a mediator. Łukasz Kroplewski is a member of the UNECE Group of Experts on Coal Mine Methane. In July 2016, he was appointed Vice President of the Chamber of the Natural Gas Industry, an association of gas industry operators. Thanks to Łukasz Kroplewski’s efforts, PGNiG joined the International Centre of Excellence on Coal Mine Methane (ICE-CMM). On February 11th, 2016, Mr Kroplewski was appointed Vice President of the Management Board of PGNiG SA, Development, for the term of office ending December 30th, 2016.

On December 19th, 2016, he was appointed Vice President of the Management Board, Development, for the three-year term of office beginning December 31st, 2016.

The Vice President of the Management Board for Development supervises and coordinates the Company’s operations in the area of innovation and development projects involving PGNiG SA, analysing and monitoring opportunities to obtain EU funding for the Company’s operations, oversight of standardisation efforts at the Company, development of technical assumptions, rules, norms and standards for the gas area, overseeing operations of the Central Measurement and Testing Laboratory and of the PGNiG foreign representative offices in Kiev and Vysokoye.

Mr Michał Pietrzyk is a graduate of Finance and Banking at the Kraków University of Economics, he completed a post-graduate course in law for managers at the Kozminski University. He started his professional career in 1995 in the banking sector. With the PGNiG Group since 2003, he first worked as Head of the Treasury Department of PGNiG SA and from 2006 to 2016 as Deputy Head of the Economic Department. In February 2016, Mr Pietrzyk became the Head of PGNiG’s Economic Department.

On December 19th, 2016, he was appointed Vice President of the Management Board, Finance, for the three-year term of office beginning December 31st, 2016.

The Vice President of the Management Board for Finance supervises and coordinates the Company’s operations in respect of its strategic economic and financial objectives, preparation and implementation of the Company’s Business Plan, economic and financial evaluations and analyses of development and investment projects, planning and overseeing financial aspects of the investment policy, monitoring the use of financial resources allocated to production, investment and repair work, the Company’s internal settlement procedures, financing operations of PGNiG S.A., cash flows of the PGNiG Group, budgeting, controlling the Company’s costs and revenue, its credit policy, tax policy and tax liabilities, financial risk management, economic and financial analyses of new capital projects, implementation and development of accounting procedures, defining the rules for and overseeing of the preparation of financial statements as well as investor relations.

Mr Maciej Woźniak is a graduate of the Cracow University of Economics (holding a master’s degree in economics) and the National School of Public Administration. He also completed a post-graduate course in property valuation at the Warsaw University of Technology. He is a member of the Polish Civil Service Corps. In 2011, he participated in the International Visitor Leadership Program run by the US Department of State. In 2003−2008, he worked at the Ministry of Finance and at the Ministry of Economy, where he led the Oil and Gas Department and was responsible for implementation of the act on mandatory oil, gas and fuels stocks and for securing Poland’s accession to OECD’s International Energy Agency based in Paris. After it joined the IEA, he represented Poland at IEA Governing Board meetings a number of times. He also coordinated preparations ahead of implementation of the second package of the EU gas market liberalisation legislation and participated in the EU’s work on the third package. In 2008−2010, he was Prime Minister’s chief adviser on energy security and secretary of the Prime Minister’s interdepartmental energy security policy team. He represented Poland in the V4 High-Level Group on Energy and the EC’s Group for the Baltic Energy Market Interconnection Plan. He supervised the pre-construction phase of the Świnoujście LNG Terminal project. He was on the team negotiating the intergovernmental gas supply contract between Poland and Russia. He resigned from the position of Prime Minister’s adviser only after the contract was signed in November 2010. In 2011−2013, he advised the Environment Minister and Chief Geologist on the geological and mining law reform. He sat on the Supervisory Boards of Operator Logistyczny Paliw Płynnych and Wielkopolska Spółka Gazownictwa and served as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Provincial Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management of Warsaw. On February 11th, 2016, Mr Woźniak was appointed Vice President of the Management Board of PGNiG SA, Trade, for the term of office ending December 30th, 2016.

On December 19th, 2016, he was appointed Vice President of the Management Board, Trade, for the three-year term of office beginning December 31st, 2016.

The Vice President of the Management Board for Trade supervises and coordinates the Company’s operations in respect of developing a regulatory policy in consultation with government authorities, EU authorities and industry organisations, planning and implementing the Company’s trade policy, particularly in respect of natural gas and electricity sales, including the execution and settlement of contracts for the supply of natural gas, electricity and other products, guiding the development of the gas market, natural gas import policy, also in respect of supply diversification, establishing and maintaining long-term relationships with foreign companies, international organisations and foreign government authorities with respect to trade relations, monitoring and analysis of foreign markets, collaboration with OGP Gaz-System S.A., Polskie LNG SA, the Maritime Office in Szczecin and Zarząd Portów Morskich Szczecin i Świnoujście (administrator of sea ports in Szczecin and Świnoujście) in respect of importing LNG to Poland, planning, executing and settling contracts for the provision of gas transmission and distribution services for PGNiG S.A., preparing periodic gas fuel balance reports in accordance with contracts and gas sale plans, periodic settlements of gas deliveries, information services, including the receipt of information on events and crises in all areas of the Company’s business, the Company’s tariff policy, cooperation with the Energy Regulatory Office (URE) in respect of preparing draft tariffs and prices of PGNiG’s products and services, obtaining licences, the Company’s information policy and corporate communication, operations of the Wholesale Trading Division and operations of the Company’s foreign representative office in Brussels.

Ms Magdalena Zegarska graduated from the University of Environmental Sciences in Radom. She completed an MBA oil and gas course and holds a certificate of completion of studies in Management of Large Enterprises from the School of Management and Marketing of the Business Initiatives Association in Warsaw. She completed numerous training programmes and courses in psychology of team management as well as a course for supervisory board members, completed with a passed exam before the State Treasury Commission. From 2011 to 2014, she served as Secretary of the Employee Council of the second term of office, and from 2010 to 2014 as Secretary of the Coordination Committee of the NSZZ Solidarność trade union at PGNiG. In 2014−2017, she served as a Member of the PGNiG Supervisory Board, as the Board’s Secretary and as Deputy Chair of the Audit Committee.

She joined PGNiG in 1998 as an employee of Mazowiecka Spółka Gazownictwa and then worked at the Mazovian Trading Division. From 2013, she held various positions at the Retail Trading Department, Infrastructure Department and Asset and Administration Department of the PGNiG Head Office. At the Asset and Administration Department she was Deputy Director. Since January 2016, she has been the Representative of the PGNiG Management Board for Quality, Health, Safety and Environment (QHSE) Management. From April 2016 to March 2017, she served as Deputy Director of the QHSE Department, delegated to direct the work of the Department. She has received honorary awards for outstanding service to the Oil Mining and Gas Sector and the Mazovian Trading Division. She is a Grade III Mining Director. On March 6th, 2017, Magdalena Zegarska was appointed as Vice President of the Management Board. Until March 6th, 2017, the position was held by Waldemar Wójcik.

The Vice President of the Management Board elected by employees supervises and coordinates the Company’s operations in the area of occupational health and safety and fire safety.

The division of authority between members of the PGNiG Management Board is regulated under Resolution No. 128/2017 of the Management Board of Polskie Górnictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo S.A. in Warsaw dated March 13th, 2017.