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Governing bodies

Management Board of Cyfrowy Polsat

Our Management Board currently consists of four Members. In 2013, its composition remained unchanged; its members were appointed last year for a three-year term of office.

Composition of the Management Board

The table below presents first names, surnames, positions, year of appointment, and year of expiry of the current term of office of each Management Board member.

First name and surname Position Year of first
appointment
Year of appointment
for the current term of office
End year of the
current term of office
Dominik Libicki President of the Management Board 2001 2013 2016
Dariusz Działkowski Member of the Management Board 2007 2013 2016
Tomasz Szeląg Member of the Management Board 2009 2013 2016
Aneta Jaskólska Member of the Management Board 2010 2013 2016
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Dominik Libicki
Mr Libicki has been President of the Cyfrowy Polsat Management Board since March 2001. He also sits on the Supervisory Board of Telewizja Polsat Sp. z o.o., and is President of the Management Board of INFO-TV-FM Sp. z o.o. He has served as Vice-President of the Management Board of the Union of Private Media Employers of the Polish Confederation of Private Employers ‘Lewiatan’ (Związek Mediów przy Polskiej Konfederacji Pracodawców Prywatnych Lewiatan) since February 2005. His previous career was mainly in the television production industry. He was Managing Director at PAI Film, and also ran his own company, Studio Meg, which produced TV commercials and programmes. In 2005−2006, Mr Libicki served as Member, and in 2006−2008 as Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa Sp. z o.o., a Polish mobile phone network operator. From May 1999 to March 2011, he sat on the Supervisory Board of Polskie Media S.A. Dominik Libicki graduated from the Faculty of Environmental Engineering of the Wrocław University of Technology. He also completed a training course for members of supervisory boards of state-owned companies, organised by the Polish Ministry of the Economy.

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Dariusz Działkowski
Mr Działkowski has been Member of the Cyfrowy Polsat Management Board in charge of Technology since August 2007. Earlier, he served as Technical Director of Cyfrowy Polsat S.A. from November 2001. He is also Member of the Management Boards of Info-TV-FM, Redefine Sp. z o.o., Netshare Sp. z o.o., Gery.pl Sp. z o.o., and Frazpc.pl Sp. z o.o. Mr Działkowski has sat on the Management Board of the Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications since 2010, and is Chairman of the Audit Committee of the SYGNAŁ Association of TV Programming Distributors. Mr Działkowski’s career has also included the positions of Technical Director at Canal+ and Services Sales Department Manager at Ericsson. He is one of the founders of Centrum Telemarketingowe Sp. z o.o. Mr Działkowski graduated from the Faculty of Electronics of the Warsaw University of Technology with a degree in radio and television broadcasting technology, and obtained his MBA from the University of Maryland.

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Aneta Jaskólska
Ms Jaskólska has been Member of the Cyfrowy Polsat Management Board since July 2010. She is responsible for the Legal, Administrative, Human Resources, and Security Divisions at the Company. Ms Jaskólska is also Member of the Management Boards of Cyfrowy Polsat Trade Marks Sp. z o.o., INFO-TV-FM Sp. z o.o., Redefine Sp. z o.o., Netshare Sp. z o.o., Gery.pl Sp. z o.o. and Frazpc.pl Sp. z o.o. She has been Director of the Legal and Regulatory Division of Cyfrowy Polsat since 2007. In 2004−2007, she served as Commercial Proxy and Director of the Legal Department at UPC Polska Sp. z o.o. She sat on the Copyright Commission. Ms Jaskólska has more than ten years of experience in the provision of advisory and legal services to large corporate clients. She graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw and completed legal counsel training with the Regional Chamber of Legal Counsels in Warsaw, receiving the license to practise as a legal counsel. Ms Jaskólska also holds a degree in Copyright Law, Publishing and Media from the Faculty of Management and Social Communication of the Jagiellonian University.

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Tomasz Szeląg
Mr Szeląg has been Member of the Cyfrowy Polsat Management Board in charge of Finance since May 2009. He is also Member of the Management Board of Telewizja Polsat Sp. z o.o., President of the Management Boards of Cyfrowy Polsat Trade Marks Sp. z o.o. and Telewizja Polsat Holdings Sp. z o.o., Member of the Management Boards of Cyfrowy Polsat Finance AB, INFO-TV-FM Sp. z o.o., Redefine Sp. z o.o., Netshare Sp. z o.o., Gery.pl Sp. z o.o., and Frazpc.pl Sp. z o.o. Before joining Cyfrowy Polsat, Mr Szeląg was Vice-President of the Management Board in charge of Finance at Telefonia Dialog S.A. Previous to this, he served as Director of the Wrocław Branch of Société Générale, Director of the Security Department and Director of the Analysis and Market Risk Department of KGHM Polska Miedź S.A. He graduated from the Faculty of National Economy of the Wrocław University of Economics with a degree in International Economic and Political Relations specialising in Foreign Trade. He holds a PhD in Economics.

Supervisory Board of Cyfrowy Polsat

Our Supervisory Board consists of five members. Its composition remained unchanged throughout 2013.

Composition of the Supervisory Board

The Supervisory Board’s composition was as follows:

First name and surname Position Year of first
appointment
Year of appointment
for the current term of office
End year of the
current term of office
Zygmunt Solorz-Żak Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Member of the Remuneration Committee
2008 2012 2015
Robert Gwiazdowski Independent¹ Member of the Supervisory Board
Member of the Audit Committee
2008 2012 2015
Andrzej Papis Member of the Supervisory Board 2007 2012 2015
Leszek Reksa Independent¹ Member of the Supervisory Board
Member of the Audit Committee
2008 2012 2015
Heronim Ruta Member of the Supervisory Board
Member of the Audit Committee
Member of the Remuneration Committee
2001 2012 2015

¹ Meeting the independence criteria provided for in Section III.6 of the Code of Best Practice for WSE Listed Companies.

Zygmunt Solorz-Żak
Mr Solorz-Żak is one of the most prominent private entrepreneurs in Poland, active in various business sectors of Poland’s economy. At the end of the 1980s, he founded Przedsiębiorstwo Zagraniczne SOLPOL, a foreign trade enterprise. At the beginning of the 1990s, Mr Solorz-Żak entered the media sector by investing in Kurier Polski, a daily newspaper. In 1993, Mr Solorz-Żak launched Polsat, the first private satellite television channel in Poland, which was later that year awarded a broadcasting licence and transformed into a nationwide television channel. Within the first few years of its operations, Telewizja Polsat became one of the leaders of the TV broadcasting market in Poland. Currently, Mr Solorz-Żak focuses his business activities on the media and telecommunications sectors, where he operates mainly through such companies as Cyfrowy Polsat S.A. (he is its founder), Telewizja Polsat Sp. z o.o., Polkomtel Sp. z o.o. (he is Vice-Chairman of its Supervisory Board), and the Midas Group. Mr Solorz-Żak’s investment interests also extend to companies from the sectors of energy (ZE PAK S.A.), banking and finance (Plus Bank S.A.), and property development (Port Praski Sp. z o.o.). He has many years of experience serving on the governing bodies of commercial law companies, sitting on or chairing the supervisory boards of such companies as Telewizja Polsat Sp. z o.o., Midas S.A., Plus Bank S.A., and ZE PAK S.A.

Robert Gwiazdowski
Mr Gwiazdowski holds a post-doctoral degree of Habilitated Doctor (doctor habilitatus) in law. He has been a licensed investment adviser since 1997. Mr Gwiazdowski is also an arbiter in arbitration proceedings and a judge at the Stock Exchange Court at the Warsaw Stock Exchange. He is President of the Adam Smith Centre. From 1985 to 2006, he was a researcher at the University of Warsaw (research assistant and then assistant professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration). In 1992−2002, he was a partner in the Smoktunowicz & Falandysz law firm, and in 1994−2004, he was Head of the Tax Commission at the Adam Smith Centre. Since 2002, he has provided legal/tax, and financial/economic advisory services as a sole trader, operating under the name of Gwiazdowski Consulting. Mr Gwiazdowski appears on Polish television and radio as an author of commentaries on tax and economic issues, and is also an author of numerous research articles and publications. He also serves as Member of the Supervisory Board of Gemius S.A., MNI S.A. (independent member), and DGA S.A. (independent member).

Andrzej Papis
Mr Papis is a legal counsel. He graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw and completed legal counsel training with the Regional Chamber of Legal Counsels in Warsaw. In 1998−1999, he was an assistant to Prof. Michał Kulesza in charge of Poland’s administrative reforms team, and then an associate at the Government Plenipotentiary Office for Implementation of the General Health Insurance Programme. Since 2000, he has worked as a lawyer for Telewizja Polsat Sp. z o.o. and since 2001 for Inwestycje Polskie Sp. z o.o., where he also serves as a commercial proxy. Since 2003, Mr Papis has sat on the Management Board of TFP Sp. z o.o., and since 2013 he has been its President. He has been Member of the Supervisory Board of Elektrim S.A. since 2004, and of Cyfrowy Polsat S.A. since 2007. Mr Papis was also Member of the Supervisory Board of Media-Biznes Sp. z o.o. in 2007–2010. In 2011, he was appointed to the Supervisory Board of Polkomtel Sp. z o.o., and in 2014 he became its Deputy Chairman.

Leszek Reksa
Mr Reksa graduated from the Faculty of Foreign Trade of the Central School of Planning and Statistics in Warsaw (currently the Warsaw School of Economics). He has many years of professional experience in managerial positions at a number of companies, including almost 15 years in the banking sector (in large banking institutions). Mr Reksa also has many years of experience in serving on governing bodies of commercial law companies, including the positions of President of the Management Board of PHU BIMOT S.A., Member of the Supervisory Board of Bankowy Fundusz Leasingowy S.A., and Member of the Supervisory Board of Zakłady Azotowe Kędzierzyn S.A.

Heronim Ruta
Mr Ruta graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Warsaw University of Technology. He is employed at Ster Sp. z o.o., and sits on the Supervisory Boards of Plus Bank S.A., PAI Media S.A., Gurex S.A., and Telewizja Polsat Sp. z o.o. In 1973−1978, he was a trainee and then electrical technology specialist at Zakłady Tworzyw Sztucznych Pronit Erg (a plastics processing plant). From 1978 to 1979, he was a specialist supervising the development of an experimental car for ultrasonic detection of rail track faults at the National Railway Technology Research Centre (Centralny Ośrodek Badań Techniki Kolejnictwa). In 1980, Mr Ruta worked for Cementation International Limited, designing the electrical layout for the Marriott Hotel in Warsaw. In 1980−1987, he was head of Wytwórczo-Usługowa Spółdzielnia Pracy (a production and services cooperative). In 1987, he founded Herom Sp. z o.o., where he was President until 1992. Between 1992 and 1994, Mr Ruta was President of Ster Sp. z o.o., and in 1991−1998, he ran his own business, including trade in electronic equipment, services involving the use of electronic equipment, and the development of a network of television broadcasting transmitters for Telewizja Polsat S.A. In 2002–2005, he was Member of the Management Board of Polaris Finance B.V., and from 2002 to 2004 Member of the Supervisory Board of Uzddaroji Akcine Bendrove ‘Baltijos Televizja’. Since November 2011, he has been Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Polkomtel Sp. z o.o.


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