RB: 31/2019
Date: 3 September 2019
Appointment of a new member to the Management Board of Benefit Systems S.A.
Legal basis: Article 56 Sec. 1 Item 2 of the Public Offering Act – Current and Interim information 

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The Management Board of Benefit Systems S.A. with its registered seat in Warsaw (hereinafter, the “Company”) hereby announces that on 3 September 2019, the Supervisory Board of the Company adopted resolution to appoint Mr Bartosz Józefiak to the Management Board to the position of the Company’s Management Board member effective as of 1 November 2019. Mr Bartosz Józefiak will be responsible for the finances of the Company  and will supervise the work of the following departments: Finance and Accounting, Internal Audit, Compliance, Administration and Purchasing, Investor Relations and Legal.

Mr Bartosz Józefiak has graduated from the Business Management Faculty of the Poznań University of Economics and Business. He started his professional career with Wrigley Polska. In 2003-2007, he worked for Kraft Foods, initially for Kraft Foods International, as financial analyst, and subsequently, for Kraft Foods Oesterreich GmbH as the head of financial control for East Adriatic Markets and for Kraft Foods Polska as the head of financial control for the Central Europe. Since 2008, when he joined Avery Dennison R.I.S. Polska, he was responsible for the implementation of medium-term operational strategy of the Avery Dennison Group in Poland, Bulgaria and the Scandinavian countries. In 2011 - 2014, he was the financial director of the Zelmer Capital Group and a member of the Management Board of the Group. In this capacity, he was responsible, among other things, for the strategy and operating plans, finance management and the financial (to the Warsaw Stock Exchange) and managerial reporting of the Group. In 2014 - 2018, he was affiliated to one of Poland’s biggest independent investment fund companies: Skarbiec TFI S.A., where he was a member of the Management Board and the Financial Director for Skarbiec TFI and its dominant entity Skarbiec Holding S.A. In 2014, jointly with his team, he carried out the process of the initial public offering of the shares of Skarbiec Holding S.A., which are listed on WSE since November 2014. Since June 2018, he was holding the position of the Deputy Chief Financial Officer of the ProService Finteco Group, which is focused on the providing of the middle-, and back-office as well as IT support for the Polish financial sector. 

In accordance with the representation made by Mr Bartosz Józefiak, the newly appointed Member of the Management Board of the Company  neither conducts activity competitive to the Company’s business nor participates in a competitive entity either as a partner of a partnership or a member of the governing body of any competitive legal person. He is not recorded in the Register of Insolvent Debtors, which is maintained on the basis of National Court Register Act of 20 August 1997 (Journal of Laws [Dz. U.] of 2017, Item 700).

From 1 November 2019, the Management Board of the Company will consist of the following persons: Emilia Rogalewicz, Adam Radzki, Wojciech Szwarc and Bartosz Józefiak.

Mr Bartosz Józefiak has been appointed to the Management Board for its joint term that has already started on 11 June 2017.