| The Management Board of Work Service S.A. (hereinafter referred to as: “Issuer” or “Company”) informs that on December 23, 2020, the Issuer's Supervisory Board, acting pursuant to § 16 sec. 2 lit. b) of the Company's Articles of Association and 14 par 2 lit. b) of the Regulations of the Supervisory Board adopted a resolution to dismiss Ms. Iwona Szmitkowska from the current position of the Vice- President of the Management Board with effect from December 31, 2020 and on January 1, 2021, appointed: 1. Ms Iwona Szmitkowska to perform the function in the Management Board of the Company, entrusting her with the position of the President of the Management Board of the Company. Ms. Iwona Szmitkowska is a graduate of French-Polish postgraduate studies in management at the University of Poznań and Rennes. In 2015, she completed the IESE Business School program in Barcelona. She also graduated from the Maritime University of Gdynia and the University of Technology and Agriculture in Bydgoszcz, in the field of marketing and management in the company. Recognized by Staffing Industry Analysts as one of the 100 most influential women in the global HR sector (2016, 2017, 2019, 2020). He has many years of experience in many business specializations. She started her professional career in the promotional and media industry. In 2003, she joined the HR services sector and Work Service S.A., where at the beginning she ran a branch in Bydgoszcz and held the position of Regional Director and Proxy. In 2013, she became the Vice-President of the Management Board responsible for the Operations and HR Division, and in 2019 she took the position of the President of Work Service S.A. She held this function until August 20, 2020. He is also the Vice - President of the Management Board of Finance Care Sp. z o. o. and Work Service SPV Sp. z o. o., as well as the President of the Work Service Foundation. Since 2017, he has been the President of the Management Board of the Association of Employment Agencies, the largest organization in Poland associating agencies specializing in broadly understood HR services. In the period from 22/02/2019 to 20/08/2020, Ms. Iwona Szmitkowska was the President of the Management Board at Work Service S.A., then in the period from 21/08/2020 to 31/12/2020, again Vice-President of the Company. Ms Iwona Szmitkowska stated that she was not aware of any circumstances that would cause her appointment to perform the duties of a member of the Company's Management Board in breach of the law or the Company's Articles of Association. Ms Iwona Szmitkowska stated that she: 1)has full legal capacity; 2)has not been penalized for the offences referred to in the provisions of Chapters XXXIII - XXXVII of the Penal Code and Articles 585, 587, 590, 591 of the Commercial Companies Code; 3)is not involved in activities competitive to the Company as well as she does not participate in a competing company as partner of a civil law partnership or a partnership or as a member of a competitive body of a capital company or member of the governing body of any competitive legal person; 4)is not entered in the Register of Insolvent Debtors maintained pursuant to the provisions of the Act of 20th August 1997 of the National Court Register (consolidated text: Dz.U. z 2017 r. poz. 700, as amended) . 5)does not perform the function or hold the position as referred to in Article 1 and Article 2 of the Act of 21st August 1997 on the reduction of economic activity by the people who perform public functions; 2.Mr. Paolo Caramello to perform a function in the Management Board of the Company, entrusting him with the position of the Vice President of the Management Board of the Company. The CV provided by Mr. Paolo Caramello constitutes an attachment to this report. Mr. Paolo Caramello stated that he was not aware of any circumstances that would cause his appointment to perform the duties of a member of the Company's Management Board in breach of the law or the Company's Articles of Association. Mr. Paolo Caramello stated that he: 1) has full legal capacity; 2) has not been penalized for the offences referred to in the provisions of Chapters XXXIII - XXXVII of the Penal Code and Articles 585, 587, 590, 591 of the Commercial Companies Code; 3) from 1 January 2021, he will be the Director of Central Europe (Regional Head of Central Europe) at Gi Group SpA, which is a competitor of Work Service S.A., to which the Issuer's Supervisory Board agreed. 4) is not entered in the Register of Insolvent Debtors maintained pursuant to the provisions of the Act of 20th August 1997 of the National Court Register (consolidated text: Dz.U. z 2017 r. poz. 700, as amended). 5) does not perform the function or hold the position as referred to in Article 1 and Article 2 of the Act of 21st August 1997 on the reduction of economic activity by the people who perform public functions. Legal basis: - article 56 section 1 item 2 of the Act on Public Offering, Conditions Governing the Introduction of Financial Instruments to Organised Trading and Public Companies (Dz.U. no 185, item 1439 of 2009 as amended); - § 10 in connection with § 5 section 1 item 5) of the Ordinance of the Minister of Finance dated 19th February 2009, on current and periodic information submitted by issuers of securities and conditions for recognizing as equivalent information required by laws of non-member state. Signatures: Iwona Szmitkowska – Vice-President of the Management Board Nicola Dell’Edera– Vice-President of the Management Board | |
