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Kompania's Management Board

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  Igor Tikhonov | President of the Management Board

  President of Kompania Piwowarska since October 2018. His whole professional life has been revolving around the FMCG sector. He kick-started his career in the brewing industry in 2001 at SABMiller, first acting as Sales Director and later on as Strategic Development Director in Russia. 2008 marked his appointment as Managing Director of the subsidiary in Ukraine, while four years later he became Managing Director in Slovakia. In 2014, Igor Tikhonov took the lead at Romania’s Ursus Breweries, which under his leadership became number one on the Romanian beer market. Over the last two years, he has also been responsible for the development of the company on the Hungarian market, where he made his name as an experienced strategist. Thanks to his management skills, the company returned to a steady growth path and began to generate record-breaking revenue.

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  James Smith | Vice President of Finance

  James joined Kompania Piwowarska in April 2024, but he had been associated with the Asahi UK business since 2010. Throughout his career, he has held many roles spanning across business partnership for sales and supply chain, financial planning and analysis, and financial control. He then served as both CFO and CEO at Meantime, and later as CFO of Asahi Holdings UK. From 2021 to 2024, James worked as Director of Financial Planning and Analysis at Asahi Europe & International in Prague.

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  Małgorzata Lubelska | Vice President of Marketing

  She has been involved with Kompania Piwowarska since 2023. Her marketing career was launched in 1995 at Pepsico, where she held the Marketing Director positions first in Poland, and then in Central Europe and Russia. In 2011, Małgorzata started working for Heineken, first as Marketing Director of Grupa Żywiec, and for the last four years as Global Vice President of Marketing for International Brands in Amsterdam, managing a diverse portfolio including Tiger, Amstel, Birra Moretti or Desperados.

  Małgorzata Lubelska is a graduate of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow; she also completed post-graduate studies at the Warsaw School of Economics and earned an MBA Degree from the University of Minnesota.

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  Krzysztof Bieliński | Vice President of Sales

  Since January 2023 employed at Kompania Piwowarska as the Vice President of Sales. He started working at Kompania Piwowarska in 2004 as Financial Controller and was gaining experience in the areas of strategy planning, market insights and research as well as revenue management and pricing strategies. He is also experienced in working at the European level, as he led the process of creating global SAP solutions in sales. Over the next stages of his career, he headed the sales development department, then regional sales, and finally took over as Key Account Director across Kompania Piwowarska’s biggest sales channels.

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  Wojciech Moliński | Vice President of Human Resources

  Working for Kompania Piwowarska since 2008. Before that, he had been a member of the management board at Volkswagen Poznań, responsible for human resources, and worked for Philips Lighting Poland and Wavin Metalplast-Buk.

  He is a psychologist by education, a graduate of the Catholic University of Lublin.

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  Guy Van Geel | Vice President of Technical Operations

  Kompania Piwowarska’s Vice President of Technical Operations since September 2021. He has over 25 years of experience in the beverage industry and extensive knowledge in the field of production, technology, supply chain and product development. He worked for Khmer Beverages in Cambodia, among other companies, where he served as Technical Director, and for Heineken holding a similar position. His cooperation with Asahi Europe began in 2019, when he took over as Technical Director for Romania and Hungary, where he played a key role in revitalization of the World Class Manufacturing system in the brewing process. Moreover, he launched a number of projects aimed at increasing production capacity at the Ursus brewery and having zero accidents, zero customer complaints and zero CO₂ emissions.

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  Dorota Peter | Supply Chain Director

  She joined Kompania Piwowarska in October 2021, taking over as Supply Chain Director. She has over 26 years of professional experience gained holding different positions in the supply chain area, including demand and supply chain planning, customer logistics, logistics and commercial services in Poland and other Baltic countries. She began working in the supply chain area in 1995 at Procter & Gamble, where she spent 12 years. Then she was gaining knowledge and experience at Thomson Technicolors and PKN Orlen. Prior to joining Kompania Piwowarska, she had worked at Coca-Cola HBC Polska for 8 years, serving as Supply Chain Director for Poland and the Baltic countries and managing an international team in a few locations.

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  Iwona Jacaszek-Pruś | Corporate Affairs Director

  She has been heading Kompania Piwowarska’s Corporate Affairs department since January 2017. Previously, she had spent 14 years at Coca-Cola HBC Polska, serving as Head of Communications and Public Affairs and Senior Management Team member. She has over 20 years of experience in the field of public relations, communications and reputation management, also in industries considered challenging or sensitive, first gained at Burson-Marsteller Poland and then at British American Tobacco Poland. In the years 2005-2016, she was a member of the Supervisory Board of REKOPOL Organizacja Odzysku Opakowań SA, acting as the Chairman from 2008. Between 2004 and 2016, she was a member of the Management Board of the Polish Federation of Food Producers, taking over as Vice President in 2008.

  She is a graduate from Foreign Trade at the University of Gdańsk.