The Management Board

Mr. Daniel Obajtek , President of the Management Board of ENERGA SA,

Ms. Alicja Barbara Klimiuk, Vice President for Operational Matters of the Management Board of ENERGA SA,

Mr. Jacek Kościelniak, Vice President for Financial Matters (CFO) of the Management Board of ENERGA SA,

Mr. Grzegorz Ksepko, Vice President for Corporate Matter of the Management Board of ENERGA SA,

 

Daniel Obajtek – President of the Management Board

Since 1999 he has been active in private companies in which he served for 7 years in management and directorship roles; he also co-founded one company. Local and self-government activist. From 2002 to 2006 he was a town council member in the Municipality of Pcim. After that, from 2006 to 2015 he served as its mayor. During his 9-year term of office, he successfully pursued many development initiatives. He implemented solutions contributing to leveling educational standards in schools, he implemented EU-funded household computerization projects and he organized training courses and workshops for less affluent households. He successfully ran many infrastructural investments.  In 2015 he began his tenure as the President of the Agriculture Restructuring and Modernization Agency, the largest payment agency in Europe with more than 11 thousand employees in Poland’s 16 regions. He streamlined the Agency’s processes related to spending roughly PLN 25 billion per annum in EU and domestic funds. He ran its organizational reform and optimized its operating expenses. He rationalized the Agency’s employee salaries and he engaged in talks with the trade unions, thereby bringing to an end a collective labor dispute that had persisted for many years. In 2016 he set up the Offsite Sub-Department of the IT Department to cut IT expenses and thereby terminate the Agency’s dependence on third party companies. Since 2016 he has also acted in the capacity of the Supervisory Board Chairman of LOTOS-Biopaliwa Sp. z o.o. and Supervisory Board member of DALMOR S.A. He has won many awards, including first place in the EURO GMINA plebiscite and second place in the plebiscite for the Best Small Community Mayor in the Małopolski Region. He also won recognition as a Local Personality in the Myślenice District and a Social Care Leader. In 2016 he took first place in Gazeta Bankowa’s plebiscite to name the Leaders of Thriftiness in Poland in the category Newcomer of the Year in 2016. He co-authored the publication entitled „Repolonization of Poland” and „European Union Funds as a Factor Enhancing Competitiveness and the Quality of Life in the Rural Areas of the Podkarpacie Region”. In February 2017, the Company’s Supervisory Board adopted a resolution to appoint him to the Management Board in its fifth term of office, entrusting him to serve in the capacity of the CEO of Energa SA.

 

Alicja Barbara Klimiuk – Vice President for Operational Matters of the Management Board of ENERGA SA

She graduated from the Management Department of the University of Gdansk. She completed the Post-Graduate Course in Management at the Warsaw School of Economics and the Post-Graduate Course in Controlling in Corporate Management at the University of Gdańsk. She has many years of professional experience in commercial law companies with the State Treasury stake, including Energa SA as the President of the Management Board. In the period of consolidating the Energa Group with the Ostrołęka Power Plant Complex, she oversaw the process of separating the distribution system operator, establishing an electricity trading company and restructuring the Energa Group subsidiaries. In 2006-2007, she also served as a member of Supervisory Boards of companies such as: Towarowa Giełda Energii S.A. in Warsaw, Zespół Elektrowni Ostrołęka S.A. and Cergia Energetyka Toruńska S.A. In the period from 1992 to 1998, as the Vice-President of the city of Suwałki, she oversaw the areas of finance, infrastructure investments, geodesy, zoning management and public utility companies. From 1998 to 2006, she was the President and Vice-President of the Special Economic Zone in Suwałki responsible, among others, for overseeing infrastructure construction and development on the Special Economic Zone site and monitoring compliance of the businesses with their permits. In the period from 2008 to 2013, she ran her own business, providing investment advice and consulting on the reports on the environmental impact of investment projects. Since 2014, she has been the Director of the Technology Transfer Center at the Higher Vocational School of prof. Edward F. Szczepanik in Suwalki, where she executed projects co-funded by the EU focusing on the research and development work for businesses and the transfer of technology from academic centers to the economy.

 

Jacek Kościelniak - Vice President for Financial Matters (CFO) of the Management Board of ENERGA SA

He graduated from the Economic Academy (currently University of Economics) in Katowice, specializing in finance and accounting.

In 1989 he began his professional career as an accountant, finance specialist and Chief Accountant in private limited liability companies. Then, from 1992 to 1998, he provided accounting, tax and legal and economic advisory services running his business activity. He conducted training workshops on the subject of taxes, accounting and mandatory prevention of the introduction of funds originating from illegal or undisclosed sources into financial circulation. He also worked as an auditor for the National Cooperative Savings and Loans Organization (Krajowa Spółdzielcza Kasa Oszczędnościowo-Kredytowa). From 1998 to 2002 he served as the Finance Department Director at the Silesian Voivodship Office. He was also the Supervisory Board chairman of the Upper Silesia Regional Development Agency and a supervisory board member of the Upper Silesia Restructuring Fund. He was elected as Member of the Parliament of the 5th Term and, during that period, he served as a member of the Parliamentary Public Finance Committee. From January to November 2007 he was Secretary of the State in the Prime Minister’s Office and Deputy Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Council of Ministers. From 2007 to 2011 he served as the Vice-President of the Supreme Audit Chamber.  He acted as an expert in the twin cooperation project to strengthen the audit potential of the Audit Authority in Georgia and Albania. He has also worked for the EUROSTAT Working Group tasked with the preparation and development of European Public Sector Accounting Standards.

 

Mr. Grzegorz Ksepko - Vice President for Corporate Matter  of the Management Board of ENERGA SA

Graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Gdansk (2001). In 2004 he completed his public prosecutor trainee program in the District Public Prosecution Office in Gdansk and he passed the public prosecutor examination. In November 2005 he was entered on the list of advocates. In July 2006 he became a partner (equity partner) in the law firm called Kancelaria Radców Prawnych i Adwokatów Głuchowski Siemiątkowski Zwara i Partnerzy. In November 2010 he became a senior partner, thereby taking a senior management position. In his law practice he specialized above all in company law, business services, criminal law, criminal tax law, civil law, administrative law and in issues related to the functioning of the oil and power sector. He also provided services to other businesses, including advisory services in corporate governance. From 2003 to 2007 he sat on the Supervisory Board of Agencja Rozwoju Pomorza S.A. (Pomeranian Development Agency) with its registered office in Gdansk. He was one of the principal authors of the vetting bill and the amendment of the Act on the Institute of National Remembrance drafted in 2006. He also participated in work on the consumer bankruptcy bill, the amendment of the State Treasury Solicitors' Office Act, the amendment of the Press Law, the amendment of the Weapons and Ammunition Act and the amendment of the Criminal Code and he prepared draft regulations for the Minister of Regional Development on public aid. In 1996 he completed the Fourth Annual Summer School for Young Social and Political Leaders under the Polish Robert Schuman Foundation and in 1997 the English language school at the University of California Los Angeles.