The Management Board of Globe Trade Center S.A. ("Company") hereby informs that on 24 June 2024, it received a written notice from GTC Dutch Holdings B.V. with its registered office in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (the “Entitled Shareholder”), according to which the Entitled Shareholder re-appoints:

• Dr. János Péter Bartha;
• Bálint Szécsényi;
• Dr. Lóránt Dudás

as members of the Supervisory Board of the Company, effective 26 June 2024.

Appointment was made pursuant to article 9 point 1 a)-c) of the Articles of Association of the Company. Pursuant to the deposit certificate attached to the notice, GTC Dutch Holdings B.V. holds 337,637,591 shares in the Company, which constitute 58.80% of the Company’s share capital, and therefore is entitled to appoint members of the Supervisory Board of the Company pursuant to the Articles of Association of the Company.

According to the statements Mr. János Péter Bartha; Mr. Bálint Szécsényi and Mr. Lóránt Dudás are not entered in the register of insolvent debtors maintained in compliance with the Act on the National Court Register dated 20 August 1997, do not perform any activities outside of the Company’s business which could be considered competitive with respect thereto, do not participate in any competitive business either as a partner in a civil partnership or any other type of partnership, and are not members of the authorities of any competing company or any other competing entity.
Moreover, Mr. János Péter Bartha fulfils 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.

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. 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.

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.

Legal grounds: Art. 5 point 5 of the Regulation of the Council of Ministers of 29 March 2018 concerning the submission of current periodical information by the securities' issuers and the conditions of recognizing as equal the information demanded by the national lawful regulation of a country which does not hold the membership in European Union

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