Subject: Appointment of the Member of the Management Board of PKO Bank Hipoteczny S.A.
Legal basis: Art. 56 par. 1 pt. 2 of the Act on Public Offering – current and periodic information
Content:
According to the paragraph 5.5 of the Regulation of the Minister of Finance dated 29 March 2018 on current and periodic information published by issuers of securities and on the conditions under which such information may be recognized as being equivalent to information required by the regulations of law of a state which is not a member state, the Management Board of PKO Bank Hipoteczny S.A. (“Bank”) hereby informs that on September 19, 2022, the Supervisory Board of the Bank has appointed Mrs. Katarzyna Kurkowska-Szczechowicz to perform the function of the President of the Management Board for the current joint four-year term of office of the Bank’s Management Board, subject to approval of the appointment by the Polish Financial Supervision Authority and as of the date of this approval being granted, but not earlier than October 1, 2022.
By the date of the Polish Financial Supervision Authority’s aforementioned approval, the Supervisory Board of the Bank has appointed Mrs. Katarzyna Kurkowska-Szczechowicz to perform the function of the Vice President of the Management Board for the current joint four-year term of office of the Bank’s Management Board and has entrusted Mrs. Katarzyna Kurkowska-Szczechowicz with directing the work of the Management Board effective October 1, 2022.
Information about the new appointed Member of the Management Board:
Katarzyna Kurkowska-Szczechowicz
Katarzyna has been associated with the financial market for 24 years. She has worked in the structures of PKO Bank Polski since 2012. She has performed the role of Director of the Risk Centre and then Internal Audit Department. She has participated in a number of projects including the establishment of PKO Bank Hipoteczny and in a project to develop an audit model based on a methodology for continuous risk assessment and control mechanisms using statistical methods and artificial intelligence.
She was responsible for implementing new processes, including solutions using statistical methods and robotics.
She has many years of managerial experience and has held numerous managerial positions in financial institutions, including as Director of various Risk Departments. As a Manager at EY, she carried out projects for entities in the financial sector. She has been a member of Risk Committees for many years.
She was also a member of the Supervisory Board of the Credit Information Bureau. She has participated in a number of training courses both at home and abroad.
She holds a master's degree in economics from the Warsaw School of Economics, majoring in finance and banking, and a master's degree in law from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw. She is a graduate of the Executive MBA Program at Aalto University.
Mrs. Katarzyna Kurkowska-Szczechowicz declared that:
- she doesn’t conduct any business competitive to the business of the Bank;
- she doesn’t participate in any business competitive in respect of the Bank as a partner in a partnership;
- she is not a member of a body of a company competing with the Bank;
- she is not a member of any other body of legal person competing with the Bank;
- she is not registered in the National Debt Register.
Date: 19-09-2022, 14:08
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