Grupa LOTOS S.A. (the “Company”) announces that on February 17th 2021 the Company’s Supervisory Board appointed Mr Jarosław Piotr Wróbel to the Company’s Management Board of the 10th joint term of office (with effect from March 2nd 2021), as Vice President of the Management Board, Chief Investment and Innovation Officer.

Mr Jarosław Piotr Wróbel completed a master’s degree programme and doctoral studies at the University of Economics in Katowice. He also completed postgraduate studies designed to advance professional development in electrical engineering, offered by the Warsaw University of Technology’s Faculty of Electrical Engineering. He holds an Executive MBA diploma (from the University of Gdańsk and RMS Erasmus University) and a Post-MBA certificate in Strategic Financial Management (from the University of Gdańsk and SBS Swiss Business School).

Since 1992 his career has been involved in the energy sector. From 1993 to 1999 he worked at Elektrociepłownia Będzin S.A., a CHP plant operator where he was responsible for the development and implementation of a restructuring plan, as well as the preparation and implementation of the first privatisation process in the Polish power industry.

Since 2002 he has been professionally associated with the PGNiG Group. In 2003–2013 he was Vice President for Economic Affairs at Górnośląska Spółka Gazownictwa Sp. z o.o. (“PSG”), where he was the originator and sponsor of a programme to deploy an Integrated Process Support Platform based on ERP and CIS (Customer Information System) solutions. In 2016–2018 he served as President of the Management Board, and since 2020 he has been Chairman of the Supervisory Board of PSG, which under his leadership developed and implemented a strategic reform package for the Polish gas distribution industry for 2016–2022, called the Gas Sector Constitution.

In 2018–2020, as President of the Management Board of ORLEN Południe S.A., he was a co-author and sponsor of a programme to construct a biorefinery on the basis of the Refinery in Trzebinia and Refinery in Jedlicze, being the ORLEN Group’s competence centre in the field of biocomponents and biofuels.

Since 2020 he has held the positions of Vice President of the Management Board of PGNiG S.A. and member of the Board of Directors of PGNiG Upstream Norway AS. From October 28th to November 12th 2020 he was acting President of the Management Board of PGNiG S.A.

In accordance with his own representation, Mr Jarosław Piotr Wróbel is not entered in the Register of Insolvent Debtors maintained pursuant to the Act on the National Court Register. Moreover, Mr Jarosław Piotr Wróbel has made a declaration to the effect that, as of the day of his appointment, he will not be engaged in any activities competing with the business of Grupa LOTOS S.A., including as a partner in a competing civil law partnership or other partnership, or as a member of a governing body of any corporation or member of a governing body of any other legal entity being in competition with Grupa LOTOS S.A.