MOSCOW (MRC) -- Anwil’s Supervisory Board appointed Mr Jacek Podgorski as CEO of the company on 17 November 2014, reported the company on its site.
Mr Piotr Chelminski, member of the Management Board of PKN Orlen overseeing development and power generation who has been delegated to act as the company’s CEO will continue to be President of Anwil’s Supervisory Board.
The present composition of the Management Board of Anwil is the following:
Mr Jacek Podgorski - CEO and General Manager;
Mr Arkadiusz Banaszek - Member of the Management Board, COO;
Mr Krzysztof Dzuba - Member of the Management Board, CFO;
Mr Miroslaw Kwiatkowski - Member of the Management Board, CSO.
Mr Jacek Podgorski has many years of experience in management, acquired during his career at companies from various sectors. He started his career in banking in Petrobank (presently Nordea Bank Polska). In 1997–2004 he worked for Pekao S.A. Group as Vice-President for Finance at Pekao Development and Pekao Leasing. In both companies he was responsible for introducing systemic changes with the aim of increasing effectiveness of the company’s business. He started his career at PKN Orlen Group by joining Orlen Asfalt. Since 2007 he was Member of the Management Board at Basell Orlen Polyolefins, where he managed finance, accounting and IT departments.
Mr Jacek Podgorski is an economy graduate from the University of Lodz and a management graduate from the University of Warsaw. Mr Podgorski is a licensed stockbroker. He has completed numerous courses in finance and management.
As MRC wrote before, on 17 October 2014, Anwil resumed production at its monomer vynil chrolide plant in Wloclawek, Poland, after maintenance works. The company's polyvynil chloride (PVC) plant started its operations already on 15 October.
Anwil, founded in 1966, is the Polish producer of petrochemical products and fertilizers. In October 1989 PVC compounds plant construction was started and so completed with the start-up in June 1992. In the years 1999-2003 the vinyl chloride and polyvinyl chloride plants were modernized and enlarged increasing their production capacity to 300,000 tons per year each. In May 2002, Anwill signed joint-venture agreement with South-Korean companies SK Global and SK Chemicals to build a PET bottle-chip plant with the capacity of 120,000 tons per year. Since 2008 Anwil has owned 100% of shares of the Czech company Spolana.
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