At its meeting on March 14th 2012, the Supervisory Board of PKN ORLEN selected Mr Marek Podstawa (previously the Executive Director for Retail Sales) to serve in the position of Management Board Member for Sales.

The new Management Board Member, selected as the best candidate through an open recruitment process for Management Board Member for Sales in the current term of office, will assume his position on March 19th.

Mr Marek Podstawa graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatics and Electronics of the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków (1989). In addition, he has completed two post-graduate programmes – one in International Trade at the Cracow University of Economics and the other in Enterprise Management at the University of Economics in Katowice. He holds an MBA diploma from the University of Minnesota/Warsaw School of Economics. He has completed a number of courses covering a wide range of topics, including: strategy development, leadership, finance and project management. Mr Marek Podstawa has an extensive track record of leading international teams, as well as expertise in management, economics and technology.

His career in the fuel sector began in 1993 at DuPont Conoco Poland, where he successively held the posts of Regional Representative and then (1995-96) Regional Director. At Conoco, he was soon promoted to finally become Director for Wholesale Programmes (2006) and Director for Strategic Planning at the company’s head office in Houston, Texas (2007-2008). In January 2009, he returned to Poland to become Executive Director for Retail Sales at PKN ORLEN S.A. He was also Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Orlen Deutschland GmbH (2009-2011) and member of the Management Board of Benzina, S.R.O. (2009-2010).