The management board of Globe Trade Centre Spółka Akcyjna (the “Company”) announces that acting pursuant to Article 9, section 6 of the Company’s Articles of Association, it submitted a statement dated 30 May 2022, proposing to the General Meeting the candidacy of Artur Kozieja for a position as a member of the Company’s Supervisory Board as an independent supervisory board member within the meaning of Article 9, section 5 of the Company’s Articles of Association.

The candidacy of Mr Kozieja has been put forward for consideration as part of the agenda of the Annual General Meeting of the Company convened for 14 June 2022 providing for, inter alia, the adoption of a resolution on the appointment of an Independent Member of the Supervisory Board. The statement was also accompanied by the consent of Artur Kozieja to serve as a member of the Supervisory Board and a statement of compliance with the qualification requirements, together with his address for deliveries, as well as a justification of the candidacy of Artur Kozieja, including a description of the candidate's qualifications and professional experience.

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).

In accordance with his representation, Mr Kozieja is not entered in the register of insolvent debtors maintained pursuant to the Act on the National Court Register of 20 August 1997 and he does not participate in any competitor company as a partner in a civil law partnership or commercial partnership, or as a member of a governing body of a company or any other legal entity, nor does he conduct any other activity which could constitute competitive business to the Company's business activities.

Mr Kozieja representation

Mr Kozieja CV

Legal basis: Art. 19, section 1, point 2 of the Regulation of the Minister of Finance of 29 March 2018 on current and periodic information provided by issuers of securities and the conditions for recognising the information required by the laws of a non-member state as equivalent (Journal of Laws of 2018, item 757).

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