Legal basis: Article 56 sec. 1 point 2 of the Act on Public Offering - current and periodic information.
Subject: Appointment to the Supervisory Board of VRG S.A. of a member of the Supervisory Board by way of co-optation
The Management Board of VRG S.A., with its registered office in Kraków ("the Company"), informs that the Supervisory Board of the Company on 30 October 2023 adopted a resolution to supplement the composition of the Supervisory Board by means of co-optation as provided for in paragraph 22(3) of the Company's Articles of Association. The Supervisory Board appointed Ms Danuta Dąbrowska to the Supervisory Board of the Company for the current joint term of office.
Information on the professional curriculum vitae, education and qualifications held and the content of the statements made by Ms Danuta Dąbrowska.
Ms Danuta Dąbrowska is a graduate of the Faculty of Food Technology at the University of Food Industry in Budapest. She has been a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) since 1999. She completed the Advanced Strategic Management, Strategic Finance and High Performance Management programmes organised by IMD in Switzerland. Ms Danuta Dąbrowska is also a graduate of the "Best-In-Retail" programme conducted by Harvard Business School.
She started her professional career in 1991 as a Financial Assistant in the Audit Department of Arthur Andersen in Warsaw. From 1993, she worked in the Warsaw office of Coopers & Lybrand, where she successively held the positions of Specialist, Senior Specialist and Manager in the Corporate Finance and Business Assurance departments. From 1997 to 2001, she worked for Ericsson in the Warsaw and Stockholm offices as Head of Finance and Business Assurance with responsibility for Poland and Asian markets. In 2002 she was appointed Chief Financial Officer of TP Internet. From 2004, as Member of the Board, CFO, she was responsible for the finances of ECCO Sko A/S in the regions: Eastern Europe and the Middle East. From 2009 to 2019, Vice President Finance for Eastern Europe and Emerging Markets, Pandora A/S.
Ms Danuta Dąbrowska has been a Member of the Supervisory Board of Santander Bank Polska S.A. since April 2014 and of BUDIMEX S.A. since May 2019. She was a Member of the Supervisory Board of Herkules S.A. from 2012 to 2017. From 2018 to 2021, she was a member of the Audit Committee of the Polish Council of Shopping Centres.
In addition, according to the statements submitted by Ms Danuta Dąbrowska, there are no prerequisites preventing her from acting as a member of the Company's Supervisory Board, in particular those indicated in Article 18 and Article 387 of the Code of Commercial Companies, she does not conduct and does not intend to conduct activities competitive to the Company, she is not entered in the Register of Insolvent Debtors kept pursuant to the Act on the National Court Register.
In addition, Ms. Danuta Dąbrowska submitted a declaration that she meets the independence criteria specified in Art. 129 section 3 of the Act of 11 May 2017 on statutory auditors, audit firms and public supervision and resulting from rule 2.3. Good Practices of WSE Listed Companies 2021 regarding the lack of real and significant connections with a shareholder holding at least 5% of the total number of votes in the company.