Prague, 27 April 2007 – At its meeting yesterday evening, Unipetrol’s Supervisory Board discussed Mr Cezary K. Smorszczewsky’s resignation on his position of a member of Unipetrol’s Supervisory Board, providing that his office of a member of Unipetrol’s Supervisory Board terminated yesterday. Since one position on the Supervisory Board was vacated the Supervisory Board appointed Mr Krystian Pater as a substitute member of Unipetrol’s Supervisory Board until Unipetrol’s next General Meeting.Krystian Pater (42) graduated from the Faculty of Chemistry of Mikołaj Kopernik University in Torun. He continued his studies in post-graduate chemical engineering courses at the Warsaw Polytechnics and acquired education in the management of the fuels sector and in corporate value management at the Warsaw School of Economics (Szkola Główna Handlowa) in Warsaw.
In 1993 he joined Petrochemię Płock. Later he joined PKN ORLEN, where he has held the position of Executive Director responsible for refinery production since 2005. Since June 2005 he has been a PKN ORLEN representative working in the management of UNIPETROL Rafinérie and CHEMOPETROL. Since 14 December 2006 he has been on the Board of Directors of AB Mažeikiu Nafta. Since 15 March 2007 Krystian Pater has also been serving on the Board of Directors of PKN ORLEN.
UNIPETROL is a group of companies operating in the petrochemical industry in the Czech Republic. In 2005 UNIPETROL became part of the PKN ORLEN Group, the largest downstream oil company in Central Europe. UNIPETROL primarily focuses on crude oil processing, fuels distribution and petrochemical production. In all these areas UNIPETROL group is one of leading players in both the Czech and Central European markets. In 2006 UNIPETROL recorded revenues amounting to CZK 95 billion and a net profit of CZK 1.6 billion.
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