Company bodies

Management Board

Krzysztof
Kaczmarczyk

Chief Executive Officer

Krzysztof Kaczmarczyk

Chief Executive Officer

Manager with over 20 years of experience in investment banks and international corporations.
In 1999-2008 Krzysztof Kaczmarczyk worked for Deutsche Bank conducting market analyses in Central and Eastern Europe. In 2008-2010 he held management positions in Telekomunikacja Polska Group and Orange Group and was responsible for strategy and business development. In 2010-2011 he worked at Credit Suisse, a Swiss investment bank. From 2012 to 2015, he served as Vice President of the Supervisory Board for Strategy and Development at Emitel, an operator of terrestrial radio and television network in Poland. In 2016-2019 he served as Advisor to the Supervisory Board of KGHM Polska Miedź S.A. for Strategy and Development.
In parallel, he gained over 15 years of supervisory experience as member of supervisory boards of companies listed on the WSE. Since 2006 Krzysztof Kaczmarczyk has been a member of supervisory boards of more than 30 companies including: Action, Alta, Arteria, Braster, BEST, BSC Drukarnia, Celon Pharma, CI Games CP Energia, Develia, Duon, Emitel, Elektrotim, Enel Med, Enter Air, European Copper Institute, TP Edukacja i Wypoczynek, Warsaw Stock Exchange, Graal, Integer, InPost, Info-TV-Operator, KGHM Polska Miedź, KGHM International, KGHM TFI, Mabion, Magellan, Nextbike, Polimex-Mostostal, Polish Energy Partners, Robyg, RS TV, SARE, TIM, Vigo System, Wirtualna Polska, Work Service, 4fun Media.
Krzysztof Kaczmarczyk is a graduate of the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH) with a degree in Finance and Accounting. He also studied International Relations at the University of Warsaw.

Responsibilities
Krzysztof Kaczmarczyk, oversees the Board of Directors’ activities. The CEO’s primary responsibilities include creating the company’s investment policy and business plan as well as seeking out strategic partners. The CEO is also responsible for the areas of HR, legal, administration, investor relations and overseeing the correct execution of the Company’s business, scientific, operational and financial activities.

Julita
Balcerek, Ph.D, EMBA

Chief Operating Officer

Julita Balcerek, Ph.D, EMBA

Chief Operating Officer

Julita Balcerek, PhD, MBA, is a graduate of the University of Wroclaw in biotechnology. She earned her PhD in molecular and cellular biology by participating in the implementation doctorate program at the Medical University of Lodz. As part of her doctoral project, she developed an innovative platform to derive stable cell lines for the expression of recombinant proteins for biopharmaceutical applications. Julita Balcerek is also a graduate of the Polish-American MBA Program at the University of Lodz and is qualified as a certified IPMA-C Project Manager.
Julita Balcerek has been with Mabion S.A. since 2008, where she has built a team and its competencies in the development, manufacturing and control of biological medicinal products. During her career at Mabion S.A., she has served, among other things, as Project Manager of the “Transfer and Validation of the NVAX Protein Vaccine Manufacturing Process,” which ended successfully and resulted in a long-term collaboration with Novavax, Inc. for contract manufacturing of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine antigen. For years, she has designed and actively supported the development of managerial competencies at the Company’s senior and middle management levels, including the Leadership Academy Program, which she designed and implemented in 2021.
Responsibilities
She is in charge of overseeing and coordinating the Company’s development, manufacturing, investment, and maintenance as well as qualification efforts. Responsible for creation and implementation of new process technologies and development of analytics characterizing biological products and processes. Oversees activities related to purchasing, warehousing, transportation and investment processes.

Grzegorz
Grabowicz

Chief Financial Officer

PhD Eng. Sławomir
Jaros, EMBA

Chief Scientific and Quality Affairs Officer

Adam
Pietruszkiewicz

Chief Commercial Officer

Adam Pietruszkiewicz

Chief Commercial Officer

Adam possesses extensive expertise in business development and a broad list of completed strategic projects in the region of Central and Eastern Europe.
He is a graduate of Boston University, where he majored in International Management and International Relations. Adam has over 20 years of experience in the private equity industry: he led the Polish operations of the Coast2Coast Capital fund, and before that, for over 13 years, he worked at The Riverside Company fund, where he also served as a Principal and headed the Polish office. While investing and developing companies from various industries (including healthcare, IT, industrial, FMCG) he built a network of strong contacts in the business environment in Poland and in the entire region of Central and Eastern Europe.

In his capacity as a Member of the Supervisory Board of Mabion S.A., Adam was twice delegated by the Supervisory Board to become a Member of the Management Board, for the first time from 17 September 2020 to 17 December 2020 and then from 25 January 2021 until the date of his resignation from the Supervisory Board due to his permanent appointment to the Management Board of the Company where he continues to serve as the Chief Commercial Officer.

Responsibilities
Within the Management Board, Adam is responsible for developing the Company’s business, acquiring new customers, building new industry relationships, and leading selected strategic projects related to the Company’s international expansion. He led the initiative to start the long-term cooperation with the company’s principal client, Novavax, Inc.

Supervisory Board

Graduate of the John F. Kennedy School of Government (MPA) at Harvard University and Tufts University (BA) in the United States. Since March 2020, he has been the President of the Supervisory Board and a Partner in the consulting company Five Rand Sp. z o.o. In recent years, he has worked for PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna S.A., Kulczyk Holding S.A., Euronet Worldwide, Inc., and Horton International, among others. In 1990-1995, he served as advisor to the Minister of Finance (from Leszek Balcerowicz to Grzegorz Kołodko) on the transformation and restructuring of the Polish financial services sector; he was also a member of the team negotiating the agreement with the London Club. Currently, he serves on the Supervisory Board of Platige Image S.A. Robert Koński meets the independence criteria referred to in Rule II.Z.4 of the document “Code of Best Practice for WSE Listed Companies 2021”.

Robert Koński has knowledge of accounting and auditing and is skilled in the industry in which Mabion operates.

Graduate of the Faculty of Law of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Legal Counselor. Managing Partner at InCorpore Banach Szczypiński Partners. He started his career at the Ministry of Finance and then worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers sp. z o.o. for several years, most recently as the leader of the Proceedings and International Tax Law team. Member of a number of supervisory boards of capital companies, including, among others, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Poczta Polska S.A. and PHN S.A. For many years an expert of the Tax Council of the Polish Confederation of Private Employers Lewiatan, including acting Head of the Tax Council. Author of numerous publications in the field of law, including the commentary “Polskie umowy o unikaniu podwójnego opodatkowania” [Polish agreements on avoiding double taxation] published by CH Beck. He repeatedly represented parties in proceedings before administrative authorities and administrative and common courts, which ended with the client’s success. Józef Banach meets the independence criteria referred to in principle II.Z.4 of the document “Code of Best Practice for WSE Listed Companies 2021”.

Józef Banach has knowledge of accounting and auditing and is skilled in the industry in which Mabion operates.

Graduate of Harvard Law School (Master of Laws) and the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw (Master of Laws). He also completed the Georgetown Leadership Seminar at Georgetown University and the British Law Centre (University of Warsaw – University of Cambridge).
Mr. Mateusz Rosa-Gawałkiewicz has over 10 years of experience in the investment industry (private equity investments) and operational work (building the value of portfolio companies for investment funds, working with management boards in the implementation of development and recovery initiatives and performance monitoring). He has also worked in the field of strategy consulting at McKinsey and Company.
For several years, he has been involved in commercialising scientific innovations by creating and developing companies in the medical and biotech sectors.
At present: Investment Advisor at Twiti Investments Limited, Member of the Supervisory Board of Neuro Device Group S.A., Member of the Management Board of CBM 16 Sp. z o.o., Deputy President of the Management Board of the Transatlantic Future Leaders Forum.

Mr. Przemyslaw Mencel has 20 years of experience as CFO in the pharmaceutical, FMCG, consulting, construction, and IT industries, in both sales, service, and manufacturing organisations. At present, he holds the following positions: Group CFO at Twiti Investments Limited, CFO at Cellis Sp. z o.o., and CFO at Lipid Systems Sp. z o.o. Positions previously held by him include: 2021 – Group CFO at Eveline Cosmetics Group, 2019–2020: Interim Group CFO at Raisead Holding Group, 2012–2019: Group CFO at Cottonex Group, 2011–2012: Interim Executive at Telos Partners (PWB Awbud), 2007–2011: CFO at Grass Cavagna Group, 2001–2007: CFO at EGIS Pharmaceuticals (Servier Group). Mr. Przemysław Mencel also has over 7 years of practical experience in the EMEA region in directing and supervising the financial operations of businesses in several tax jurisdictions, as well as extensive experience in establishing internal procedures, processes, and controls. He holds an MBA from Georgia State University as well as AICPA-CIMA (CGMA, FCMA) and LCCI qualifications.

An expert in planning and implementing long-term sustainable strategies, he drives business decisions while preserving value, protecting assets, and seeking new opportunities for the organisation, and combining it at the same time with the ability to integrate financial and non-financial data to achieve a complete picture of the business. He has many years of experience in capital acquisition, risk management, internal control, value building, change management.

Graduate of the Faculty of Medicine at the Medical University of Lodz and Postgraduate Studies in Management Accounting at the University of Lodz. Licensed securities broker (license No. 449). Associated with the capital market since 1994. Worked for HSBC Securities Polska, Dom Maklerski BZ WBK, Santander Biuro Maklerskie where he was responsible for sales to institutional clients (investment funds, pension funds, asset management companies). He is competent in conducting transactions on the domestic and foreign cash and derivatives markets. He participated in the preparation and conduct of numerous public offerings of companies on the primary and secondary market. Since July 2020 he has been working for Polfarmex S.A.

Committees

Przemysław Mencel – Audit Committee Chairman

Józef Banach
Robert Koński