Ordinary General Meeting appointed the Supervisory Board of ORLEN S.A. for a new term of office

ORLEN S.A. (“Company”) announces that the Ordinary General Meeting of ORLEN on 5 June 2025 appointed members of ORLEN Supervisory Board for a new term of office as follows:

•                Wojciech Popiołek – Chairman of the Company’s Supervisory Board,

•                Michał Gajdus – Member of the Company’s Supervisory Board,

•                Katarzyna Łobos – Member of the Company’s Supervisory Board,

•                Ewa Gąsiorek – Member of the Company’s Supervisory Board,

•                Kazimierz Mordaszewski – Member of the Company’s Supervisory Board,

•                Tomasz Zieliński – Member of the Company’s Supervisory Board,

•                Mikołaj Pietrzak – Member of the Company’s Supervisory Board,

•                Piotr Wielowieyski – Member of the Company’s Supervisory Board,

•                Marian Sewerski – Member of the Company’s Supervisory Board,

•                Ewa Sowińska – Member of the Company’s Supervisory Board.

 

Wojciech Popiołek

A Professor of Law and a distinguished expert in civil and commercial law. A graduate of the Department of Law and Administration at the University of Silesia, Professor Popiołek has been a faculty member at the university for many years and served as Chair of Civil Law and Private International Law for over a decade. He is the author of numerous academic publications on civil, commercial, and private international law, and has extensive experience in research, teaching, and legal consultancy. An experienced arbitrator, Professor Popiołek serves on the panels of the Court of Arbitration at the Polish National Chamber of Commerce (where he is a member of the Arbitration Board) and the Polish Confederation Lewiatan. Additionally, he is listed as a national arbitrator at the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Court of Arbitration in Paris. He has been a practising legal counsel since 1998.

Michał Gajdus

Michał Gajdus is an attorney-at-law affiliated with the Warsaw Bar Association. He is a graduate of the Department of Law and Administration and the Interdisciplinary Individual Humanities Programme at the University of Warsaw. His research interests span civil law, industrial property law, and EU law, and he has authored a range of publications in these fields. He specialises in complex litigation, representing clients before Polish and international courts, including the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), and arbitration courts. With over 12 years of experience collaborating with international law firms, he is recognised in prestigious legal rankings, including IAM Patents 1000, Managing IP, and Legal500 in litigation and intellectual property categories. Mr Gajdus advises international and domestic companies across the energy, pharmaceutical, mining, insurance, financial, and telecommunications sectors. His experience includes handling strategic disputes, providing counsel on business risk and intellectual property strategy, and guiding key investment decisions.

Katarzyna Łobos

Katarzyna Łobos is a Doctor of Law and a graduate of the Department of Law and Department of Administration at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University and the University of Warsaw. She has gained extensive experience in legal consulting and corporate legal advisory during her tenure at a prestigious law firm, where she led the Commercial Law Practice. She specialises in commercial law, regulations applicable to commercial-law companies, and internal auditing. She also has a wealth of expertise in risk management and compliance analysis. Dr Łobos has authored a range of publications on corporate governance and management process optimisation. Additionally, she has served as a Legal Adviser at Poland’s Supreme Audit Office, where she was Acting Deputy Director of the Legal and Audit Decisions Department.

Ewa Gąsiorek

Ewa Gąsiorek is a Doctor of Economics from the University of Economics in Katowice, where she also completed postgraduate studies in financial management. She also completed studies in Management and Marketing at WSB University. Ms Gąsiorek has authored numerous publications on financial management, public spending efficiency, finance risks, and the qualitative assessment of budgeting. With over 25 years of experience in managing the budgets of large entities, she has developed deep expertise in financial oversight and strategic budgeting. Since 2011, Dr Gąsiorek has served as Deputy Director for Implementation of the Province of Warsaw’s Budget at the Marshal’s Office of the Province of Warsaw. Her responsibilities include overseeing budget execution, managing budget accounting, handling the accounting for income and expenses of the Province’s unincorporated entities, and preparing budget reports and financial statements, including the consolidated balance sheet. She also served on the Supervisory Boards of municipal companies and is currently a member of the Audit Committee of the Capital City of Warsaw.

Kazimierz Mordaszewski

Mr Mordaszewski is a legal counsel. He graduated from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń and the Catholic University of Lublin. For several decades, he was actively involved in developing Poland’s national security structures following the political transformation of 1989. He held high-ranking positions, including Director at the Office for State Protection (UOP), Director of the Legal Office at the Internal Security Agency (ABW), and Deputy Head of the ABW. Beyond his work in national security, he served as Chargé d’Affaires at the Embassy of Poland in the United Arab Emirates, representing Poland in both the UAE and Qatar. He is a partner at KMMG Mordaszewski & Gliński, a partnership of attorneys and legal counsels. Mr Mordaszewski sat on the Supervisory Board of PHZ Cenzin Sp. z o.o., and on the Board of the National Centre for Research and Development. Currently, Mr Mordaszewski is a department head at the Ministry of State Assets.

Tomasz Zieliński

Tomasz Zieliński holds a Doctor of Technical Sciences degree from the Industrial Chemistry Institute in Warsaw and is a graduate of the Warsaw University of Technology, specialising in Chemical Technology. He has also completed postgraduate studies in financial management and marketing and holds an MBA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Lublin University of Technology programme. Since 2013, he has served as President of the Board the Polish Chamber of Chemical Industry. He has over 23 years of experience in the chemical sector, acquired in top executive and management roles at leading industry companies, including ORLEN, ANWIL, and Grupa Azoty Zakłady Chemiczne Police. He has also held Supervisory Board positions in both Polish and international companies and has contributed to economic advisory councils at technical universities. Since June 2013, Mr Zieliński has served as President of the Board of the Polish Chamber of Chemical Industry. He is a member of the National Association Board (NAB) of the European Chemical Industry Council in Brussels (CEFIC), where he represents the interests of seven countries in the Central Europe Cluster. He has also been actively involved in European industry policy, serving on the Board and Steering Committee of the European Chemical Employers Group (ECEG) in Brussels for nearly a decade.

Mikołaj Pietrzak

Mr Pietrzak is an attorney-at-law and a graduate of the Department of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw. He also holds the Cambridge University Certificate in English and European Law and is a member of multiple international legal organisations. His expertise lies in criminal law, with a particular focus on economic crime and corporate compliance cases, and human rights law. Currently, Mr Pietrzak is the Dean of the District Bar Association in Warsaw. He has extensive experience handling complex litigation and providing advisory services on international legal compliance and civil rights protection. A published legal scholar and academic lecturer. He has been recognised three times by the Rzeczpospolita daily as the best criminal defence lawyer for businesses, and has been ranked by Chambers Europe among the top Polish attorneys in corporate criminal law.

Piotr Wielowieyski

Mr Wielowieyski is an economist, a graduate of the University of Warsaw. He passed the state exam for candidates for supervisory board positions at state-owned enterprises, and completed studies in investment advisory and securities analysis. He has extensive expertise in the fuel and energy sector as well as in economic consulting. From 2008 to 2016, he was associated with the ORLEN Group, serving on the Unipetrol Management Board and the ORLEN Supervisory Board. Mr. Wielowieyski also served as President and member of the Management Boards at Warsaw Stock Exchange-listed companies such as Zachodni Fundusz Inwestycyjny and Foksal NFI, and lent his expertise to various companies as member of Supervisory Boards, including at ANWIL, BOP and ZM Ropczyce. In the 1990s, he worked at the representative office of the International Finance Corporation (World Bank), where he contributed to projects in Poland.

Marian Sewerski

Mr Sewerski is a graduate of the Academy of Economics in Kraków (currently Cracow University of Economics). He served on the Management and Supervisory Boards of companies controlled by the Polish Motor Association. For over two decades, he worked for American oil industry companies Texaco and Chevron, where he gained extensive professional expertise. Mr Sewerski has in-depth knowledge of integrating global corporate requirements and standards with local legal frameworks, as well as the specific characteristics of the Polish market and business environment. Additionally, he served for one year as President of the Board of the Polish Organisation of Oil Industry and Trade, and sat on the Supervisory Boards of the Polish Radio and Ciech.

Ewa Sowińska

Ms Sowińska is a registered statutory auditor. She graduated from the Department of Economics at the University of Gdańsk and SWPS University. She has extensive experience in financial auditing and business advisory services. For the past 15 years, she has been a partner at an international auditing firm. Prior to that, she served as Director of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Gdańsk office and then as a Management Board member at PricewaterhouseCoopers. For over a decade, she was actively engaged in the initiatives of the Polish Chamber of Statutory Auditors (PIBR), where she played a pivotal role in fostering collaboration with organisations such as ACCA, the Responsible Business Forum, IIA Poland, the Association of Stock Exchange Issuers, and the Ministry of Finance. Her contributions focused on advancing education and non-financial reporting standards. She is a member of the Association of Independent Supervisory Board Members.

All members of the ORLEN Supervisory Board appointed today performed their functions in the previous term of the office, declared also that upon taking up the position in the Supervisory Board of ORLEN they will not be involved in any activity competitive with ORLEN and will not be partners of any competitive civil law partnership, partnership, capital company, will not be members of any board of a competitive capital company.  All appointed members of the Supervisory Board are not on the list of insolvent debtors kept on record on the National Court Register Act.