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MESSAGE _ENGLISH VERSION_
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17/2026
Appointment of the Supervisory Board for a New Term of Office
Regulatory
filing
The Management
Board of Agora S.A. with its registered office in Warsaw _the "Company"_
hereby informs that on 29 June 2026 the General Meeting of Shareholders
of the Company _the "GMS"_ appointed the following persons to the
Company's Supervisory Board:
Mr Jacek Levernes,
Mr Dariusz Formela,
Ms Wanda Rapaczynski,
Mr Andrzej Szlęzak,
Mr Tomasz Sielicki,
Mr Sebastian Buczek,
Mr Sławomir Sikora
for a joint
three-year term of office commencing on the day following the date of
the General Meeting.
Additionally, the
Management Board informs that the GMS appointed Mr Andrzej Szlęzak as
Chairman of the Company's Supervisory Board.
The current
composition of the Company's Supervisory Board is as follows:Chairman
of the Supervisory Board - Andrzej Szlęzak, and members: Wanda
Rapaczyński, Tomasz Sielicki, Dariusz Formela, Jacek Levernes, Sebastian
Buczek, Sławomir Sikora.
Jacek Levernes
Jacek Levernes is
a senior executive with +25 years of leadership experience working
across CEE, Europe and globally. His specialties include business
development, shared services, operations and outsourcing, digital
transformation, investment growth, as well as strategy and public
affairs.
Currently, Jacek
Levernes is a Senior Advisor at the Boston Consulting Group, Chairman of
the Supervisory Board of ICTSI Poland and Non-Executive Director at
Skanska Commercial Development Europe.
Jacek Levernes has
studied and worked in Norway, Poland, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland,
Singapore and the US.
Dariusz Formela
Since 1 September
2018 Board Member of Black Red White S.A., and since 1 December 2018
President of the Management Board of the company. In the years
2012-2018, the president of GOBARTO S.A. _formely PKM DUDA S.A._
responsible for development and implementation of the company's
strategy. In the years 2009-2012, he was a member of the board of PKM
DUDA and CEO of CM Makton S.A. In the years 1998-2008, he worked for the
ORLEN Capital Group, where he was also a member of the Management Board
of PKN ORLEN and Mazeikiu Nafta responsible, i. a., for the oversight of
the companies of the group and the integration of capital assets. He was
also responsible for development and implementation of the restructuring
plan in the ORLEN capital group. Currently, he is a member of the
Supervisory Board of Forum TFI SA. Dariusz Formela is a graduate of the
Law and Administration Faculty at the University of Gdansk. He also
obtained an MBA diploma from the University of Bradford and Kozminski
University.
Wanda
Rapaczynski
Associated with
Agora S.A. almost since its inception. In 1998-2007 and between 28 June
2013 and 12 March 2014 served as the CEO of the Management Board. Under
her leadership, Agora grew into one of the largest and most best known
media companies in Central and Eastern Europe. After resignation from
the function of the Company's CEO she remained associated with Agora, as
an advisor to the Supervisory Board until her appointment to the
supervisory body. Member of Supervisory Board of Agora in 2009-2019.
She represented
Agora S.A. in the European Publishers Council and the Polish
Confederation of Private Employers LEWIATAN, where she was a member of
the main board and a member of the supervisory board of the Polish
Private Media and Advertising Employers Confederation.In 1984-1992,
she was the Head of New Product Development in Citibank NA in New York.
Previously, for two years she was the director of a research project at
the Faculty of Psychology at Yale University, and in 1977-1979 research
fellow at Educational Testing Service in Princeton, New Jersey. Her
professional career began as a psychology lecturer at universities in
New York and Connecticut.In years 2008-2018, she was a member of the
supervisory board of Adecco S.A., a Swiss company operating
internationally, specialized in recruitment services, where she chaired
the Corporate Governance Committee.
For years she was
a member of the Council of the Central European University in Budapest,
where she chaired its Audit Committee. She was also a member of the
International Advisory Council at the Brookings Institution in
Washington for many years. Since 2002 she is a member of Polish Group in
the Trilateral Commission.
In 1977 she
received a Ph.D. in Psychology from City University of New York. A
graduate of Yale University, School of Organization and Management,
where in 1984 she received a Master of Private _ Public Management.
Ph.D. Andrzej Szlęzak
Currently Of
Counsel, previously a Partner at the law firm Sołtysiński, Kawecki _
Szlęzak _SK_S_. Andrzej Szlezak joined Soltysinski, Kawecki _ Szlezak
shortly after its founding in 1991. In 1993 he became a partner, and in
1996 a senior partner, a position he held until the end of 2015. In SK_S
he was engaged in legal services in a number of privatizations and the
restructuring processes of various sectors of Polish industry and
banking. He supervised numerous mergers and acquisition projects,
participated in greenfield projects, prepared a large number of
transaction documents, and was the author of numerous legal opinions in
the field of civil and commercial law. He is an arbitrator at the
Arbitration Court at the Polish Chamber of Commerce in Warsaw and
a member of its Arbitration Council; he has also been repeatedly
appointed as an arbitrator in disputes conducted before international
arbitration institutions _ICC in Paris, VIAC in Vienna, and PCA in The
Hague_.
Andrzej Szlezak
received his master's degrees in Law and English Philology at the Adam
Mickiewicz University _AMU_ in Poznan. From 1979 to 1981, he completed
his judicial training at the Provincial Court in Poznań. From 1979, he
was a researcher at the Institute of Civil Law at Adam Mickiewicz
University, where he earned both his doctoral degree and habilitation in
civil law. In 1994, he was appointed Professor at Adam Mickiewicz
University, a position he held until leaving the Faculty of Law in 1996.
Andrzej Szlęzak has been a fellow of numerous foreign academic
institutions, including universities in Oxford and Michigan. Currently,
Andrzej Szlęzak is a professor at SWPS University in Warsaw, where he
serves as Head of the Department of Private Law. He is the author of
numerous publications, including those in foreign languages, in the
field of civil and commercial law.
Tomasz
Sielicki
He worked in the
Sygnity S.A. _formerly ComputerLand S.A._ since the company's inception
in 1991. From 1992 to 2005, he served as the President of the Management
Board, later for two years he served as the President of the Sygnity
Group _formerly ComputerLand Group_. He is considered to be the founder
of the company's success. Moreover, he is a member, among others, of the
Council of the Information Society Development Foundation. World
runner-up in bridge and a bronze medalist at the Polish Senior Chess
Championships.Justification:
Ph.D. Sebastian
BuczekFounder
and President of the Management Board of Quercus TFI S.A.
He holds
a university degree in economics and a habilitated doctorate in economic
sciences; he is a graduate of the Warsaw School of Economics _SGH_. From
1997 to 2018, he was an academic at SGH, and from 2009 he held the
position of Associate Professor. From 1996 to 2007, he worked for the
ING Group in Poland. From 1996 to 2007, he worked at ING Investment
Management _Polska_ S.A., where from June 2002 he served as Vice
President of the Management Board, and from April 2006 as President of
the Management Board. From 1999 to 2007, he worked at ING TFI S.A.,
where from October 1999 he served as a Member of the Management Board,
from June 2002 as Vice President, and from April 2006 as President of
the Management Board. Since August 2007, he has been the founder,
leading shareholder, and President of the Management Board of Quercus
TFI S.A. Since November 2021, he has been the Chairman of the
Supervisory Board of DI Xelion sp. z o.o. He is an Honorary Citizen of
his hometown, Jedlina-Zdrój, and an Ambassador of Wałbrzych.
Sławomir S.
Sikora
Sławomir S. Sikora
has many years of experience in banking. From 2003 to June 2021, he
served as President of the Management Board of Bank Handlowy w Warszawie
S.A. From 2005 to 2008, he was a member of the Citigroup Management
Committee in New York. Previously, from 2001 to 2003, he served as
President of the Management Board of Bank Amerykański w Polsce S.A. From
1994 to 2001, he worked at Powszechny Bank Kredytowy S.A. as Head of
Corporate and Investment Banking, holding the rank of Vice President of
the Management Board. From 1989 to 1994, he held a number of senior
positions at the Ministry of Finance _including Director of the
Department of Banking and Financial Institutions_. Sławomir S. Sikora is
a graduate of the Warsaw School of Economics. In the past, he has held,
among others, the following positions: Member of the Supervisory Board
of Agora S.A., Vice-Chairman of the Polish-American Chamber of Commerce,
Member of the Advisory Council on Emerging Markets of the Institute of
International Finance _Washington_, member of numerous supervisory
boards of banks and insurance companies, Member of the Economic Advisory
Council to the President of Poland, Member of the Supervisory Board of
the Royal Castle in Warsaw.
Members of the
Supervisory Board appointed for the new term of office declared that:_i_
they do not engage in any activity competitive with the Company;_ii_
they are not partners in a civil law partnership, a partnership or
company that
competes with the Company;_iii_ they are not members of a governing
body of a company competing with the Company, nor of any other legal
person competing with the Company; and_iv_ they are not entered in
the Register of Insolvent Debtors maintained pursuant to the Act of 20
August 1997 on the National Court Register.
Legal basis: §
5 point 6_ of the Regulation of the Minister of Finance of 6 June 2025
on current and periodic information published by issuers of securities
and conditions for recognizing as equivalent information required by the
law of a non-member state.
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