Leadership

Mr. János Bartha is a seasoned investment banker with more than 20 years of experience in private equity investments, especially in privatisation, management of IPOs, bond issues and M&A transactions. Mr. Bartha started his banking carrier at the National Bank of Hungary in 1982 where he was Deputy Managing Director for the Capital Markets Department responsible for all IFC related investments including country funds, joint ventures with strategic partners and financial institutions. In 1991 he became CEO of Credit Suisse First Boston in Hungary, and, in 1995 he was elected Managing Director of Credit Suisse First Boston Ltd covering all of Central and Eastern Europe, in this role he was also Chairman of the Board for CSFB Polska. Following his investment banking career Mr. Bartha established his own investment company that invested in different industries such as agroindustry, steel and construction, real estate and fund management in Hungary and Croatia.

Mr. Csaba Cservenák is the Head of Controlling and Member of the Board of Optima Investment Ltd since 2022. He joined Optima Group in 2017 as a senior accountant. Mr. Cservenák started his professional career as accountant at VGD Hungary, later moving on to various positions in the field finance and controlling at Docler Holding.

Mr. Cservenák graduated from the Faculty of Finance and Accountancy of the Budapest Business School in 2009 and holds an MBA Diploma. He also studied to become a tax advisor in Hungary. He has more than 15-year experience in accounting, finance, tax advisory and portfolio management.

Dr. Lóránt Dudás is the General Counsel and Member of the Board of Optima Investment Ltd. Dr. Dudás joined Optima Investment Ltd. in autumn 2016, where he first worked as senior legal counsel. Currently he holds the position of General Counsel and advises on real estate, corporate and commercial law and investment law matters. He has been Compliance Officer at Optima Investment Fund Manager Ltd. since 2017. He has been Member of the Board of Optima Investment Ltd. since 2018. Prior to joining Optima Investment Ltd, Dr. Dudás provided support to Takarékbank Zrt. as senior legal counsel focusing on corporate lending, syndicated loans and consortium financing, investment services, transactions and the implementation of other business and integration projects in 2014-2016. Between 2011 and 2014, he worked as a senior attorney focusing on real estate, corporate and commercial law and dispute resolution in CHSH Dezső & Partners International Law Firm and between 2007 and 2011 he provided general legal support to an economic and financial agency that supported the Ministry of Defence.

Dr. Dudás graduated from the Faculty of Law of Eötvös Lorand University, then he passed the postgraduate qualifying exam and was admitted to the Budapest Bar Association. He also studied economics at the Faculty of International Business Economics of the Budapest Business School, as well as completed the Corporate Compliance training program of the Budapest Institute of Banking (BIB) and the International Training Center for Bankers.

Magdalena Frąckowiak is an attorney-at-law with over 15 years of professional experience in legal advice in commercial, corporate, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and financing matters. She is authorized to practice as a lawyer in Poland and Great Britain. Mrs. Frąckowiak specializes in transaction advisory, in particular M&A transactions, Venture Capital, financing and cross-border transactions. Mrs. Frąckowiak started her career at KPG Spółka Partnerska Attorneys Keller, Książek, Grodzińska (currently Keller&Wspólnicy sp.k.) and later worked for Credit Suisse Poland Sp. z o. o., Global Trading Group (Cash Equities Trading Support). Currently, Mrs. Frąckowiak is an attorney at LSW Bieńkowski, Laskowski, Leśnodorski, Melzacki i Wspólnicy sp.k.

Magdalena Frąckowiak graduated in law, Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics of the University of Wrocław, and then completed legal training. Additionally, graduated from English-language LL.M postgraduate studies with specialization in International Commercial Law at Kozminski University, Warsaw.

László Gut graduated from the Faculty of Finance and Accountancy of the Budapest Business School in 2014.

Mr. Gut started his career as an auditor at Ernst & Young, gaining significant experience – among others - in real estate and oil & gas industries. As an auditor, he observed the operation of listed companies from close and participated in a number of management boards, audit committee and supervisory board meetings. After 8 years, he decided to look for new challenges in his professional career and joined Optima Investment Ltd. Since January 2022 he leads the financial department.

Dominik Januszewski is a Senior Advisor in the field of management and finance with more than 25 years of experience in Ernst&Young and Artur Andersen. Between 2005-2019 he worked as a Partner in Ernst&Young, responsible for business advisory, transaction consulting, privatization projects, as well as financial audits. Between 2016 and 2019 was a member of European Executive Boards of Ernst&Young Financial Sector Division. His clients included the largest financial institutions in Poland. Currently, he is responsible for Strategic Consulting team of JLL, focusing on development and implementation of ESG and energy optimisation strategies for enterprises.

Mr. Januszewski is a Polish Chartered Auditor. He completed many professional trainings relating to advisory and management. In 2018 completed the course for Top Executives in Harvard Business School. In 2022 obtained the University of Cambridge Certificate: „Business Sustainability Management”. Dominik Januszewski graduated from University of Łódź, Economics and Sociology Department, Finance and Banking Faculty.

Artur Kozieja, the founder of the Europlan group, is an experienced investor and investment banker who, between 1995 and 2017, worked as a senior executive at Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley and Barclays Capital in London, where he was responsible for M&A transactions and the raising of capital for corporations, banks and countries in Central and Eastern Europe. In addition, as a partner in a family hotel business started in 1983, he also developed hotel projects in Lower Silesia in Poland. Since 2017, as part of the Europlan group, he has been carrying out hotel investments in Poland, where he has opened, among other things, the Lake Hill Resort & Spa hotel complex in the Karkonosze Mountains and the Metropolo by Golden Tulip hotel in Cracow, and is currently preparing several hotel projects in cooperation with international hotel chains.

Artur Kozieja holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (USA) and is a graduate of the Diplomatic Academy in Beijing (China).

Marcin Murawski graduated from the Faculty of Management of Warsaw University. He also holds the following certificates: ACCA, ACCA Practising Certificate, KIBR entitlement, CIA.He has been an independent member of the supervisory board and chairman of the audit committee of: GTC S.A., Apart S.A., SecoWarwick S.A., SANTANDER-AVIVA JV TU S.A., SANTANDER-AVIVA JV TUNŻ S.A. Mr Murawski was an independent member of the supervisory board and chairman of the audit committee of CCC S.A until 2019. Between 2005 and 2012 Mr Murawski was a director of the internal audit department at WARTA Group - KBC GROUEP NV and secretary of the audit committee at TUIR WARTA S.A. and TUNŻ WARTA S.A. Between 1997 and 2005 he worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers Sp. z o.o., as manager of the audit department (2002-2005), senior assistant in the audit department (1999-2001), assistant in the audit department (1997-1999).

Dr. Tamas Sandor is a specially trained and experienced attorney-at-law who was and has been member and/or chairman of Supervisory Boards of several companies in the Hungarian market. Mr. Sandor has more than 17 years of experience as a lawyer in international Real Estate Development and M&A markets, as well as in corporate governance and commercial law.

Dr. Tamas Sandor graduated with Master Degree from Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of Eötvös Lóránd University (ELTE) – Budapest. Besides having active membership in Budapest Bar Association after passing the bar exams with excellent qualification, Mr. Sandor has acquired postgraduate Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Real Estate Law in 2010 at Eötvös Lóránd University (ELTE) – Budapest.

Bálint Szécsényi is the Chief Executive Officer of Equilor Investment Ltd. He joined Equilor Group in 2000 as a Corporate Finance Partner. Mr. Szécsényi has more than 20-year experience in stock exchange and OTC securities issuances, the organization of syndicated loans, venture capital and private equity transactions, and mergers & acquisitions both on Hungarian and international market. Mr. Szécsényi has been a member of the Board of Richter Gedeon Pls, one the largest pharmaceutical groups of the region and was the vice-president and a member of the Board of the Budapest Stock Exchange between 2011-2015. Mr. Szécsényi graduated from the Budapesti University of Economics, Faculty of Finance in 1998 and currently is a member of the advisory board of the Foundation of the Faculty of Corporate Finance of the University.