The Management Board of Globe Trade Centre S.A. (the “Company”) hereby announces that pursuant to Articles 7.1.1, 7.1.2 and 7.1.3 of the Company’s statute, on 13 March 2012 ING Powszechne Towarzystwo Emerytalne S.A. seated in Warsaw (00-342), ul. Topiel 12, acting on behalf of ING Otwarty Fundusz Emerytalny appointed Krzysztof Gerula to the Company’s Supervisory Board.
Krzysztof Gerula graduated from the Faculty of Production and Trade in Goods of the Academy of Economics in Krakow (currently University of Economics) in 1966 and the African Institute of the Warsaw University (1968). From the beginning of his professional carrier he was connected with Orbis and advanced through a series of managerial positions within the company. Between 1991 and 2008 he served as the vice-president of the management board of Orbis SA. and was mainly responsible for restructuring and privatisation, global sales and marketing, legal and corporate matters as well as risk management. Since 2008 Krzysztof Gerula has been an independent entrepreneur providing business consultancy services. Additionally, from 2008 to 2010 he completed a set of training courses in internal auditing organised, inter alia, by Ernst & Young and PwC, and served as the internal auditor of the United Federation of Travel Agents’ Association in Monaco. Since 2009 he has been a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors, Branch in Poland.
Krzysztof Gerula has served on the supervisory boards of several companies, such as Polcard S.A., Hekon S.A. and Naftobudowa S.A. He currently serves as a member of the supervisory boards of Pekaes S.A., Sfinks S.A., Protektor S.A. and Polaqua S.A.
According to his statement, Mr Gerula is not entered in the register of insolvent debtors maintained in compliance with the Act on the National Court Register dated 20 August 1997, he does not perform any activities outside of the Company’s business which could be considered competitive thereto, he does not participate in any competitive business either as a partner in a civil partnership or any other type of partnership, and he is not a member of the authorities of any competitive company or any other competitive entity. Mr Gerula fulfills the independence criteria as specified in Annex No. II to Commission Recommendation 2005/162/EC of 15 February 2005 on the role of non-executive or supervisory directors of listed companies and on the committees of the (supervisory) board.
Legal basis: Paragraph 5.22 of the Regulation of the Minister of Finance dated 19 February 2009 on the submission of current and periodical information by issuers of securities and on the conditions for treating as equivalent information required by the laws of a country which is not a member of the European Union.