| The Management Board of Work Service S.A. (hereinafter: the Issuer or the Company) informs that on 22nd February 2019 the Supervisory Board of the Issuer, acting pursuant to §16(2) (b) of the Company's Articles of Association and § 14(2)(b) of the Bye-laws of the Supervisory Board, dismissed Mrs. Iwona Szmitkowska from the position of Vice-President of the Management Board and appointed: 1. Mrs. Iwona Szmitkowska to perform the duties of President of the Management Board of Work Service S.A. Mrs. 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. In 2016 and 2017, she was recognized by Staffing Industry Analysts as one of the 100 most influential women in the global HR sector. Has many years of experience in various business specializations. She started her professional career in the promotional and media industry. Since 2003, she has been associated with Work Service and the personnel services sector. Over the years, she traveled from running a branch in Bydgoszcz, through the position of Regional Director and Proxy, to taking over the position of Vice President of the Board in 2013. From 2018, she is responsible in the Work Service Group for the Polish part of the Group's business. In addition, she is the President of the Work Service Foundation. From 2016 to the end of 2018, she was the Chairman of the HR Platform, operating within the framework of the “Pracodawcy RP” organization. In January 2017 she was elected, and she still performs this function, as the President of the Board of the Association of Employment Agencies, the largest organization in Poland that associates agencies specializing in providing HR services. Mrs Iwona Szmitkowska declared that she does not know any circumstances that his appointment as a member of the Management Board of Work Service S.A. would violate the law or the Company's Articles of Association. In particular, Mrs Iwona Szmitkowska: 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; 6) has no associations with the company shareholders owning shares that represent not less than 5 % of votes at the general meeting of the Company. 2. Mr. Jarosław Dymitruk to perform the duties of Vice-President of the Management Board of Work Service S.A. Mr. Jarosław Dymitruk is a graduate of the Economics and Accounting Cybernetics faculty of Management and Informatics at the University of Economics in Wroclaw. In 2006 he completed post-graduate studies at the National Defense University in the field of air transport management. He has extensive and many years of experience in business specialties related to the sale, organization and management of the company both on domestic and foreign markets. He was also professionally connected with various business sectors, such as: fast moving goods, investment industry and currently HR. He started his career in the FMCG industry by successfully introducing world-class consumer products to brands such as Benckiser Gillette and Duracell. Since 2007, he has been associated with the Work Service group, where he was the Operations Director and member of the Management Board responsible for marketing, sales and current operational activities. In 2011, he became a member of the management board of Exact Systems, which was taken over by Work Service, and was responsible for developing the foreign part of this company. He continued his activities in this area as vice president in Work Service International related to the international development and operations of the Work Service Group. Within its framework, from the very beginning, he built the Group's presence on the German market of Temporary Work Services. He participated in the creation of a joint venture with the German business partner of the Group and is currently a member of its management. Mr. Jarosław Dymitruk declared that he does not know any circumstances that his appointment as a member of the Management Board of Work Service S.A. would violate the law or the Company's Articles of Association. In particular, Mr Jarosław Dymitruk: 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 he 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; 6) has no associations with the company shareholders owning shares that represent not less than 5 % of votes at the general meeting of the Company. | |
