| The Supervisory Board of ÈEZ has today discussed and acknowledged Martin Roman’s resignation from his offices of member and chairman of the Supervisory Board. Then the Board co-opted Michal Mejstøík and Jan Mare¹ as its new members. Thus, the Supervisory Board now has all member offices filled. Václav Paèes, its Vice-chairman, is going to chair the Board until a new chairman has been elected. Martin Roman announced his intention to leave the Supervisory Board of ÈEZ at its session today. He stated that he had considered and prepared this step for a long time. “After nearly ten years of working in top management positions of the company, I have made a definite decision to leave the CEZ Group and pursue other projects on a full-time basis. This is the end of one major chapter in my professional career, and I feel honored to have had the chance to be involved in developing one of the most successful companies in the Czech Republic," said Martin Roman today. The Supervisory Board thanked the leaving chairman for his long-term hard work to the benefit of the CEZ Group’s shareholders and customers. “Martin Roman has significantly contributed to the fact that, over the past nearly ten years, ÈEZ has been a reliable supplier of electricity to its customers and of stable income to the state. During Martin Roman’s work for ÈEZ, the company paid CZK 357 billion in taxes and dividends to the state budget. From the Supervisory Board’s viewpoint, though, the investment rating is a crucial criterion of assessment, and this rating is an excellent reference for Martin Roman. ÈEZ is the only one among major European energy corporations that has not seen its rating deteriorate over the past 10 years – on the contrary, despite the crisis, the rating of ÈEZ has improved since 2004. On behalf of the Supervisory Board, I want to thank Martin Roman for everything he has done for ÈEZ over all those years," said Václav Paèes, Vice-chairman of the ÈEZ Supervisory Board, in this respect. Michal Mejstøík, a new member of the Supervisory Board, is a professor of economics at Charles University in Prague, where he lectures on banking and finance. There he also founded and for several years led the prestigious Institute of Economic Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University. Over the past years, he has also worked as external consultant for international organizations (USAID, World Bank, European Commission in Central and Easter Europe and Asia), the Czech government and numerous corporations, whether directly or by means of EEIP, a. s. In 2010, Michal Mejstøík was elected as President of the International Chamber of Commerce of the Czech Republic (ICC-CR). Since March 2011, he has also worked as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Èeský aeroholding, a. s. Jan Mare¹, the other new member of the Supervisory Board, is presently the Mayor of the Statutory City of Chomutov. Before that he worked as principal of the Secondary Technical School of Power and Civil Engineering in Chomutov. Besides, he is the President of the Chamber of Statutory Cities and Municipalities of the Czech Republic and a Vice-President of the Czech Union of Towns and Municipalities of the Czech Republic. He is also President of the Council of the Association of Energy and Electrical Engineering Education. | |
