Jan Byrski, Chairman of the Supervisory Board

Jan Byrski specializes in financial innovation law (FinTech, including payment, banking and the insurance market), in legal protection of information (personal data, professional secrets, trade secrets), and IT and TMT, including in particular proceedings before the President of the National Bank of Poland, President of the Polish Financial Supervision Authority, Inspector General for Personal Data Protection, and administrative courts. He provides legal advice to companies and financial institutions operating on the Polish and international markets.

He is a legal expert at the Polish Chamber of Insurance and the Foundation for Development of Non-Cash Transactions (FROB). He is a member of the IAPP (International Association of Privacy Professionals) organization and SABI-IOD (Data Protection Officer Association, Poland), and Vice-President of the FinTech Committee of the Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications (PIIT). He is a member of working parties at the KNF Office on the development of financial innovation (FinTech) and MC working groups, including distributed registers and blockchain. He takes part in parliamentary work on the adaptation of Polish law to PSD 2, interchange fee regulation (IF Reg), the GDPR, and numerous amendments to the Act on the Protection of Personal Data and the Act on Payment Services.

He is a speaker at conferences, seminars and training courses in Poland and elsewhere, and a member of the Consultative Council of the IT in Administration monthly. He is the author and co-author of numerous academic and popular-science publications, including the monograph Tajemnica prawnie chroniona w działalności bankowej (Legally-Protected Secret in Banking Operations), which earned him the top award in the Scientiae Legis Excellentia contest for the best PhD dissertation on economic law organized by the National Bank of Poland, as well as the habilitation dissertation “Outsourcing w działalności dostawców usług płatniczych” (Outsourcing in the Activities of Payment Service Providers) (C.H. Beck 2018). He has also received individual recommendations in the Chambers & Partners Europe 2020 and 2021 Banking & Finance ranking, Regulatory Poland, FinTech Legal Poland 2020 and 2021, The Legal 500 EMEA 2020 and 2021 in the category Data privacy and data protection.

He is a professor in Economic Law of the Faculty of Finance at the Cracow University of Economics. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University, and attended the School of German Law of the Jagiellonian University, University of Heidelberg, and the University of Mainz, and the School of Austrian Law of the Jagiellonian University and the University of Vienna. He studied at Ruhr-Universität Bochum on a scholarship awarded by the Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation. He has been on scholarships at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität Greifswald, Johann Gutenberg Universität Mainz, and Max-Planck-Institut für Immaterialgüter-und Wettbewerbsrecht.

Member of the Supervisory Board satisfies the independence criteria provided for in § 20, section 2 of the Articles of Association.

Jakub Leonkiewicz, Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board

Jakub Leonkiewicz started his professional career in 2001 in the business development department at Interhyp.de in Germany. In 2001-2002 he worked at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants in Germany. In the years 2002-2015 Jakub Leonkiewicz was associated with J.P. Morgan – first as an analyst in the merger and acquisition team in London and since 2012 as a director of J.P. Morgan in Warsaw, where he was responsible for J.P. Morgan’s practice in Poland and the Baltic countries. From November 2015 to January 2017 and once again from May 2017 he is the Chairman of the XTB Supervisory Board. Currently, Mr. Jakub Leonkiewicz acts as a partner in Avia Capital private equity fund.

Jakub Leonkiewicz graduated in 2002 with a master’s degree from the Warsaw School of Economics with a degree in finance and banking. Jakub Leonkiewicz participated in the CEMS Master Program (Community of European Management Schools) at the London School of Economics and was a scholarship holder at the Christian-Albrecht Universität zu Kiel.

Member of the Supervisory Board satisfies the independence criteria provided for in § 20, section 2 of the Articles of Association.

Łukasz Baszczyński, Member of the Supervisory Board

Łukasz Baszczyński commenced his professional career in 1999 as a clerk in the District Court in Zgierz. From 2002 to 2006 he cooperated as an attorney with the law office of Kancelaria Radców Prawnych P. Stopczyk & R. Mikulski and as an assistant to the management board of Sarton Management sp. z o.o.

He is a partner at the law office of Kancelaria Prawna P. Grzelka & Wspólnicy sp. k.

Until September 27, 2019, he was a partner in Baszczyński & Dąbrowska Intellectual Property Law and until June 16, 2021, he was a member of the supervisory board of Novama Cloud S.A.

Łukasz Baszczyński graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Lodz. In 2008, he was registered in the register of legal advisors and in 2010 in the register of advocates at the District Chamber of Advocates in Warsaw. Łukasz Baszczyński is entered in the list of candidates for members of supervisory boards of companies with the shareholding of the State Treasury. 

Member of the Supervisory Board does not satisfies the independence criteria provided for in § 20, section 2 of the Articles of Association.

Bartosz Zabłocki, Member of the Supervisory Board

Bartosz Zabłocki commenced his professional career in 2002 in Contract Administration sp. z o.o. where until 2007 he was the specialist for brand protection. From 2005 he is a partner in the law office of Kancelaria Prawna P. Grzelka & Wspólnicy sp. k. Since 2006, Bartosz Zabłocki has been running his own business: “Globetroter Bartosz Zabłocki”. From March 2021, he is a Member of the Management Board of Kamienica sp.z o.o.

Bartosz Zabłocki graduated from the Department of Law and Administration at the University of Lodz. 

Member of the Supervisory Board does not satisfy the independence criteria provided for in § 20, section 2 of the Articles of Association.

Grzegorz Grabowicz, Member of the Supervisory Board

Grzegorz Grabowicz has been a Member of the Management Board and Finance Director at Mabion S.A. since January 2019. Grzegorz Grabowicz gained knowledge and experience in management while working: over the period 1998 – 2003 in the Audit Department at Deloitte, in 2003 as Financial Controller at BFF Polska S.A. (formerly: Magellan S.A.), over the period 2004 – 2017 as Financial Director at BFF Polska S.A. and Vice President of the Management Board at BFF Polska S.A. Between 2010 and 2013 he worked as President of the Management Board of MEDFinance S.A. In the years 2007 – 2017 was a Member of the Supervisory Board of Magellan Czech Republic and Magellan Slovakia. Over the period 2013 – 2017 he was a Chairman of the Supervisory Board of MEDFinance S.A. From 2014 to October 2018 Mr Grzegorz Grabowicz was a Member of the Supervisory Board of Skarbiec Holding S.A. From October 2017 to August 2020 he was a Member of the Supervisory Board of Develia S.A. (formely: LC Corp S.A.) and from June 2018 to May 2019 he was a Member of the Supervisory Board of Medicalgorithmics S.A. From May 2020, he is a member of the Supervisory Board of PRAGMAGO S.A.

Grzegorz Grabowicz holds a graduate degree. In 1998 he graduated from the University of Lodz, Faculty of Management and Marketing, specialisation in Accounting, and received a Master’s degree in Management and Marketing. In 2010 he completed a programme organised by the Nottingham Trent University and the WSB at the University in Poznań and receive the EMBA (Executive Master of Business Administration) degree. Grzegorz Grabowicz is also a Statutory Auditor.

Member of the Supervisory Board satisfies the independence criteria provided for in § 20, section 2 of the Articles of Association.