ABOUT US

MACIEJ MACIEJOWSKI

President of the Management Board of Gremi Media SA

He joined Gremi in 2022

Maciej Maciejowski has been associated with the media since 2000 when he started working at onet.pl. He spent the last 16 years at TVN SA, where he was responsible, among others, for the digital transformation. From 2012, he was responsible for the Digital Division in the TVN Management Board.

2012 - 2020: Member of the Management Board of TVN SA, Chief Digital Officer
2011 - 2012: Deputy Programing Director, TVN SA
2008 - 2011: Channel Manager TVN Warszawa and tvnwarszawa.pl, TVN SA
2006 - 2008: Head of Channel TVN Turbo, TVN SA
2007 - 2008: Project Manager TVN24.pl, TVN SA
2004 - 2006: Marketing Manager, TVN SA
2000 - 2004: Manager of Key Projects, Grupa Onet SA
1996 - 2000: Animated Film Studio in Cracow

RADEK KUCKO

Member of the Board

He joined Gremi in 2023

Associated with the creation and development of Poland's largest Internet portals for 23 years. For the last 13 years (2009 - 2022) he served as a Member of the Management Board of the Interia.pl Group, where he was responsible for the Research and Analysis teams, communication products with the portal's mail and a group of thematic services.

2009-2022: Member of the Management Board of Interia.pl Group
2004-2022: Member of the Research Council of the company Polskie Badania Internetu
2000-2009: Director of Research and Analysis, Advertising Product Development, Hosting, BOK departments at Onet.pl
2001-2004: Member of the Supervisory Board of the company Polskie Badania Internetu
2000-2000: CATI manager at Pracownia Badan Społecznych in Sopot
1997-2000: Team Leader at Pracownia Badań Społecznych in Sopot

Zoltán Varga

Chairman of the Supervisory Board

Zoltan Varga graduated from the University of Pécs at the Faculty of Economics., Hungary. During his studies he worked for the Dresdner Bank and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. In 1990 he joined the Budapest Stock Exchange Board and in 1991 the Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB), where he first worked in London and later in New York. In Budapest office he managed the sales and trading departments as deputy manager until 2001.
After 10 years of international and large-scale enterprise career he launched his own investments. In 2004 he joined the Wizz Air success story among the firsts as the biggest private shareholder.
Following he started his investment activity and founded Central Group which has been operating since 2004 on the Hungarian market. Established as a factoring company, the group has expanded its activities and now was involved also in receivables and property management and financial consulting.
In 2014 Central Group expanded with Central Médiacsoport Zrt. (Central Media Group former Sanoma Budapest), one of the biggest independent media companies of Hungary.
With more than 25 print weekly and glossy magazines and 15 online portals the media portfolio reaches the 2/3 of Hungarian population. Moreover, his book publisher company under the umbrella of Central Media Group is in the top five publishers on the Hungarian book market managing titles just like Harry Potter books and Scandinavian crime novels.
Within at least the last three years, Zoltan Varga was a member of the Management Board in at least 22 companies, the member of the Supervisory Board in 3 companies and the partner or shareholder in 74 companies. The detailed list of the above mentioned companies constitute the appendix to this report.
In Poland, Zoltan Varga holds the position of a member of the Supervisory Board of Wydawnictwa Szkolne i Pedagogiczne S.A. (from 2019 -2024) and in the past was the member of the Supervisory Board of Premium Mobile Sp. z o.o. (2019 – 2021) and Tutore Poland sp. z o.o. (2022 – 2023).

Joanna Różycka-Iwan

Vice-chairwoman of the Supervisory Board

Joanna Różycka-lwan acts as the Chief Investment Officer at Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF), managing the fund’s global portfolio. She holds multi-year experience in investment, counselling and finance management. Since joining MDIF in 2012, she has managed the portfolio of socially responsible capital and debt investments (impact investments) in Central and South-Eastern Europe, as well as in Asia, completing several major media transactions in the European market in recent years. She specialises in shaping strategic priorities, monitoring outcomes, and finance management. From February 2019 until June 2024, she was a member of the Supervisory Board of Eurozet sp. z o.o. She is a member of the Supervisory Board of Wirtualna Polska Holding S.A.
Before joining MDIF, she was involved in Deloitte and Crido Taxand, where she provided counselling to customers, acquiring 150 million euro in funding for projects in various sectors.
She has been a member of the ACCA since 2014 and an FCCA since 2019, and she graduated from the Leadership Academy for Poland 2021. She holds M.A. diplomas in corporate finance (SGH Warsaw School of Economics) and international relations (University of Warsaw).

Grzegorz Kossakowski

Secretary of the Supervisory Board

Grzegorz Kossakowski has multi-year experience in investment and media management. He has held multiple roles in various projects, which allowed him to gain expertise in mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, as well as management of media organisations. His professional experience also involves business counselling.
Since July 2023, Grzegorz Kossakowski has been a member of the Supervisory Board of the Croatian company Telegram Media Grupa d.o.o. Before this, Grzegorz Kossakowski was involved with Eurozet Group, where he acted from February 2019 until October 2021 as a member of the Supervisory Board at Eurozet sp. z o.o., and from March 2022 until February 2023 as the President of the Management Board. From March 2022 until February 2023, he was a member of the Management Board at Eurozet Radio sp. z o.o. Further, from March 2018 until October 2021 Grzegorz Kossakowski was a member of the Supervisory Board of Nais sp. z o.o. Chief Investment Officer in Europe at Media Development Investment Fund, Inc.

Paweł Rymarz

Member of the Supervisory Board

Paweł Rymarz is a legal councillor and a partner at the legal office Rymarz, Zdort, Maruta, Wachta, Gasiński, Her i Wspólnicy sp.k.
Paweł Rymarz is a recognised legal councillor specialising in corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, as well as capital market transactions. His experience concerns counselling at the biggest mergers and acquisitions, corporate transformations and reorganisations of capital companies, as well as at private equity transactions and public offerings of securities, including within privatisation processes. He also participates in key international arbitration proceedings with Polish entities involved. He regularly receives recommendations and honourable mentions in international legal market rankings, including Chambers & Partners, The Legal 500, and IFLR1000.
He graduated from law at the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw. For more than 25 years, he has been managing one of the most prestigious legal offices in Poland, now called Rymarz, Zdort, Maruta, Wachta, Gasiński, Her i Wspólnicy sp.k., previously known as Weil, Gotshal & Manges – Paweł Rymarz sp.k.
He is the general partner in the companies Rymarz, Zdort, Maruta, Wachta, Gasiński, Her i Wspólnicy sp.k. and Partners spółka z ograniczoną odpowiedzialnością Side Car Tylko sp. k., as well as a partner and member of the Management Board at the companies ‘Interaktywny Wehikuł Administracyjny’ sp. z o.o. and East Studio sp. z o.o. In 2019–2021, he acted as the official receiver of ‘Polskie Zdroje’ sp. z o.o. in liquidation.

Wojciech Kostrzewa

Member of the Supervisory Board

Wojciech Kostrzewa is a manager and entrepreneur with unique experience in the Polish market. He currently heads the Polish Business Roundtable, an organisation that brings together CEOs and owners of the largest companies in the country. He is also a co-owner of the Billon Group and the controlling partner at Wydawnictwo Pascal sp. z o.o.
His long professional career combines work in the financial, media, and technology sectors, along with social activism. In the financial sector, he served, among others, on the regional management board of Commerzbank AG for Central and Eastern Europe (2002–2004), was President (1998–2004) and Vice President (1995–1998) of the Management Board of BRE Bank S.A. (now mBank S.A.), and also served as President of the Management Board of the Polish Development Bank S.A. (1990–1995). From 1989 to 1991, he served as an advisor to the Minister of Finance, Leszek Balcerowicz.
In the media sector, he was the President of ITI Group SA (2005–2018) and also served on the supervisory board of TVN S.A. (2005–2017), including as its chairman and vice-chairman. From 2020 to 2022, he was a member of the supervisory board of Canal+ Polska S.A., and from 2007 to 2013, he was the chairman of the supervisory board of Tygodnik Powszechny sp. z o.o. He also served on the supervisory board of Onet.pl S.A.
For years, he has been involved in various initiatives for business communities, including as the President of the Polish-German Chamber of Industry and Commerce (2004–2007), Vice President (2007–2020), and member of the General Council (since 2020) of the Confederation of Lewiatan and as the Vice President (2015–2019) and President (since 2019) of the Polish Business Roundtable. He currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Billon Group Ltd. (London, United Kingdom), and until March 2024, he was its Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Additionally, he is the Chairman of the Supervisory Boards of Wydawnictwo Pascal sp. z o.o. and Poland Investments sp. z o.o., Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Sopockie Towarzystwo Ubezpieczeń ERGO Hestia S.A., and a member of the Supervisory Board of Sopockie Towarzystwo Ubezpieczeń Na Życie ERGO Hestia S.A. He sits on the Board of Directors at Stadler Rail AG (Bussnang, Switzerland). He is also the President of the Management Board at WK Consult sp. z o.o., a member of the Management Board at Evox sp. z o.o., and a general partner at Kostrzewa, Marciniak-Małecka, Evox sp. k. Additionally, he serves as a director at Art Polonia SL (Marbella, Spain) and Cricklade Investment Ltd. (Gibraltar, United Kingdom). Until 2023, he served on the supervisory board of Billon Solutions sp. z o.o.
He graduated in Economics at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel. He also studied law at the University of Warsaw.

Marc Vangeel

Member of the Supervisory Board

Marc Vangeel is an experienced manager, involved in the media industry for 30 years. He has held multiple management positions at media institutions in different countries. Importantly, in 1994, he joined the Belgian media group Concentra, where he worked at top management positions, including Chief Executive Officer (CEO). In 2014, Concentra, together with another Belgian media group called Corelio, established the joint venture entity Mediahuis, a European media house holding assets in Belgium, the Netherlands, Ireland, Luxembourg and Germany. Next, Marc Vangeel held multiple management positions at Mediahuis Group, especially as CEO of Mediahuis Nederland, and later as CEO of Mediahuis Ireland. Currently, he is responsible for the development of Mediahuis Group.
Marc Vangeel graduated from Ghent University as a construction engineer, and later he completed MBA studies and the Harvard Business School programme titled ‘Strategies for media companies’.

Piotr Łysek

Member of the Supervisory Board

A graduate of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Wrocław University of Science and Technology. In the years 1993-2010, he was associated with the European Leasing Fund SA, and since 1994 in managerial positions, he was responsible for sales in the macroregion. In the years 2010-2012, he was an Advisor to the Management Board of Getin Holding SA. From March 2009 to June 2014, he was a member of the Supervisory Board of NFI Jupiter SA. From June 2013 to June 2014, he was a member of the Supervisory Board of KCI SA. In the first half of 2014 he was a member of the Supervisory Board of Gremi Business Communication Sp. z o.o. and from July 2014 he was an Advisor to the Management Board of Gremi Business Communication Sp. z o.o. He was the Vice President of the Management Board of Gremi Media S.A. and the President of the Management Board of e-Kiosk S.A. Currently, he is the President of the Management Board of KCI S.A. a shareholder of the Issuer, the President of the Management Board of Gremi Inwestycje S.A. and the President of the Management Board of Dragmor sp. z o.o.

Marcin Petrykowski

Member of the Supervisory Board

Over 20 years of managerial experience in the financial, technology and banking sectors, with a specialization in transformations, growth strategies, investments and implementation of innovations. A long-term international career, leading the European regional structures of key institutions of the global financial market, S&P Global and J.P. Morgan. Currently, he is a member of the supervisory board and chairman of the Strategy and Technology Committee at JSC Universal Bank (monobank), the second largest retail bank in Ukraine and the largest neobank in Europe (over 8 million customers). Since 2021, Senior Advisor for Central and Eastern Europe at the global fund Vauban (EUR 10 billion in infrastructure and ESG assets, Natixis group), with responsibility for strategy and investments in the region. For the last 3 years, he has been the President of the Management Board of Atende S.A., a capital group listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange providing comprehensive solutions in the area of digitization and modern technologies. After restructuring, implementing a new strategy and transformation, he led the group to a historically high level of performance. Previously, as Managing Director, he led the overall commercial business of the global leader in the rating, analytics and data industry, S&P Global, for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. He introduced S&P Global Ratings to Polish and the CEE region, and then in the EMEA region he transformed the business management model and implemented a new operational strategy. He started his career in corporate banking at Citibank, and then worked as an Executive Director at J.P. Morgan Corporate and Investment Bank in London, where he was responsible for the German, Russian and CEE markets, while also serving as Deputy Director of the J.P. Morgan branch in Poland. Chairman of the Fintech & Insurtech Congress Program Council, and Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Lesław A. Paga Foundation. Previously, he was a member of the Supervisory Board of MCI Capital S.A., a private equity fund listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, specializing in digital transformation. and a member of the board of directors of the American Chamber of Commerce in Poland. A graduate of the Stern Leadership Academy at the Stanford School of Business and the Leadership Academy for Poland at the Center for Leadership, higher and postgraduate education obtained at the Kozminski University, Lund University and the University of Warsaw.

Member of the Supervisory Board

Ricardo da Silva Oliveira has extensive knowledge in the fields of finance, management, negotiation and entrepreneurship. He holds a degree in Business Economics from Oklahoma University and a bachelor's degree in Psychology and Sports Management from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He holds a postgraduate degree in Finance, Business Management and Real Estate Investment from Universidade Católica Portuguesa and ISEG, and holds an Executive Master's Degree in Finance & Control from Universidade Católica Portuguesa. During his career, he has participated in and supervised numerous projects related to the acquisition, restructuring and financing of enterprises, which has allowed him to build an extensive international network of contacts, thanks to which he successfully supports the development of many entities operating in global markets. In the media sector, he played a key role in m.in founding Nobias European Studios, a company involved in the production of e-commerce, artificial intelligence and multimedia technologies, among other things.