Piotr Kaczmarek is a graduate of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation and a securities broker license. From the beginning of his professional career, he has been involved in the capital market and has 19 years of experience in the analysis and valuation of financial instruments. He managed equity portfolios of Poland’s two largest pension funds: ING OFE and Aviva OFE. He is a co-author of the first model “Corporate Governance Principles” developed for the pension fund market in Poland.
He began his career as a securities broker at Dom Maklerski BMT S.A. (1994–1995) and Bank Handlowy in Warsaw (1997–1998), and later worked as a capital markets dealer at Bank Amerykański w Polsce S.A. (1999–2000). From 2000 to 2008, he was employed at ING Nationale-Nederlanden Polska PTE S.A., where he successively held the positions of equity analyst, equity portfolio manager, and equity investment director. In 2006, he was appointed to the Management Board of the company and assumed the position of Head of the Investment Department.
Between 2009 and 2010, he worked as a portfolio manager at Skarbiec TFI S.A. From 2011 to May 2016, he was employed at Aviva PTE BZ WBK S.A., where he held the positions of senior analyst and equity portfolio manager.
He has extensive experience serving on audit committees of publicly listed companies. In the past, he served as a member of the Supervisory Board and Chairman of the Audit Committee at Robyg S.A., and as a member of the Supervisory Board and Audit Committee at Harper Hygienics S.A. and Erbud S.A. Currently, he is a member of the Supervisory Boards and Audit Committees of the following listed companies: Grupa Kęty S.A., Develia S.A., Śnieżka S.A., Ferro S.A., and VRG S.A. Additionally, he serves on the Supervisory Board of W.KRUK S.A., a subsidiary of VRG S.A.
According to his submitted statement, Piotr Kaczmarek meets the independence criteria set out in Annex II to the European Commission Recommendation of 15 February 2005 on the role of non-executive or supervisory directors of listed companies and board committees. Furthermore, he meets the independence criteria specified in Article 129(3) of the Act of 11 May 2017 on Statutory Auditors, Audit Firms and Public Oversight.