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Orlen. Changes in the company's management board
The supervisory board of Orlen has terminated the contracts of two members of the company’s management board, according to the announcement. The individuals removed were Magdalena Bartoś and Artur Osuchowski.
„The Supervisory Board of the Company has resolved to dismiss Ms. Magdalena Bartoś from her role as Vice-President of the Management Board for Financial Affairs and Mr. Artur Osuchowski from his position as Member of the Management Board effective at the close of August 27, 2025,” it was stated in a stock exchange announcement on Wednesday.
Two members of the Orlen management board have been dismissed
„Orlen does not provide any comments on the supervisory board’s decision,” the company’s press office stated in reply to inquiries about the dismissals of Bartoś and Osuchowski.
In the disclosed announcement, Orlen indicated that the Supervisory Board had decided to publish on August 28 this year on the orlen.pl website notices relating to recruitment procedures for the roles of: Vice President of the Management Board for Financial Affairs, Member of the Management Board for Energy and Energy Transition, and Member of the Management Board for Legal Affairs and Compliance.
Bartoś was appointed to the management board of the company in April 2024, while Osuchowski joined in June 2024. Both were appointed as part of a collective term of office that concludes on the date of the Annual General Meeting approving the company’s financial reports for 2025.
At Orlen, Bartoś took on the role of Vice President of Finance in early May 2024. Prior to that, from 2019 to 2023, she was a member of the management board at WAG payment solutions, where she was responsible for various tasks, including preparing and executing the Eurowag Group’s IPO on the London Stock Exchange. She served on the management board of Paged from 2017 to 2018, and held the position of Managing Director for Economic and Financial Affairs at PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna from 2014 to 2016.
Bartoś was affiliated with the Orlen Group from 2007 to 2009, where she managed the integration of the finance sector following the acquisition of the refinery in Mažeikiai, Lithuania – now Orlen Lietuva – and acted as deputy financial director of that firm, which was operating under the name Mažeikiu Nafta at the time.
Conversely, Osuchowski, who had recently overseen sustainable development and energy transition within the Orlen management board, served on the management board of Ege Kimya Polska from 2021 to 2024, a company engaged in projects related to electromobility, particularly in increasing the production capacity of nickel and cobalt salts for electric vehicle batteries.
Previously, from 2008 to 2019, Osuchowski was part of the Management Board of Ciech, where he managed the Soda Division, overseeing areas such as sales, investor relations, and corporate governance, while also implementing restructuring projects for the Ciech Group.
Following the removal of Bartoś and Osuchowski, the Orlen Management Board now consists of seven members: President Ireneusz Fąfara; Witold Literacki, Vice President for Corporate Affairs and First Deputy President; Robert Soszyński, Vice President for Operations; and Ireneusz Sitarski, Vice President for Wholesale and Logistics; along with members Wiesław Prugar, responsible for the upstream segment; Marek Balawejder, in charge of retail sales; and Marcin Wasilewski, overseeing technology.
According to Orlen’s statutes, its management board can comprise between five and eleven members, including the president, vice presidents, and other members of the management board. Individual members are appointed and dismissed by the supervisory board following a qualification process, with one member appointed by the entity authorized to exercise rights attached to shares held by the State Treasury, which also has the authority to dismiss that member.
Orlen Group
The Orlen Group, which includes Orlen and its subsidiaries, is a diversified corporation with refineries located in Poland, the Czech Republic, and Lithuania, along with a network of automotive fuel stations in Germany, Slovakia, Hungary, and Austria. It is also advancing in oil and gas extraction, petrochemicals, and energy sectors, including renewable energy sources, and is planning to develop nuclear power utilizing small modular reactors (SMRs).
Last week, the company reported that the net profit of the Orlen Group for the first half of this year reached PLN 5.932 billion, an increase of PLN 3.108 billion compared to the same timeframe in 2024. The firm noted that the Orlen Group nearly doubled its LIFO-based EBITDA operating profit in the second quarter of this year, hitting PLN 9.2 billion. Revenue totaled PLN 60.7 billion, with cash flow from operating activities amounting to PLN 10.5 billion.
In the announcement of its consolidated results, Orlen also reported that investments during the first half of this year approached PLN
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