Management Board

She has more than 25 years´ experience in the banking industry on 6 European markets and both Americas.

Ms. Elżbieta Światopełk-Czetwertyńska joined Citibank in July 1994 in Ecuador as Relationship Manger in the Corporate Bank. During 1999-2003, she worked in the Dominican Republic as the Head of Transaction Services, Asset Based Finance and the small and medium enterprises client segment. Later, she moved to the United States for one year, to work in audit area overseeing corporate loans in Latin America.

In 2004, Ms. Elżbieta Światopełk-Czetwertyńska joined Bank Handlowy w Warszawie S.A. in Risk Management and in 2005 was appointed Senior Credit Officer. After three years, Elzbieta took the responsibility for the Central-East Region in Poland. In October 2009, she was appointed country Head for the Commercial Bank and she held this position until 2013, when she moved to Colombia. In Colombia Ms. Elżbieta Światopełk-Czetwertyńska was responsible for running the Treasury and Trade Solutions business, where she successfully developed and executed a dynamic growth strategy. As part of the Senior Management Team of Colombia and the Latam Treasury and Trade Solutions Executive Committee, Ms. Elżbieta Światopełk-Czetwertyńska was involved in shaping the strategy of the franchise and the TTS business in the Region.

In November 1, 2015, Ms. Elżbieta Światopełk-Czetwertyńska was appointed Citi Country Officer and Corporate Investment Banking Head for Ecuador. In March 2019 she returned to Europe as Citi Country Officer for Switzerland, Monaco and Liechtenstein.

Ms. Elżbieta Światopełk-Czetwertyńska graduated from University of Reading, England, U.K. as Bachelor of Science in Food Science, Food Economics & Marketing. She was Awarded First Class Honors Degree.

She satisfies the requirements referred to in Article 22aa of the Banking Law.

Ms. Natalia Bożek has been the Vice President of the Management Board of Bank Handlowy w Warszawie S.A. since March 21, 2018.

Ms. Natalia Bożek has extensive experience in the area of banking and finance.

In September 2017 she returned to Bank Handlowy w Warszawie S.A. as Director for Financial Planning Process Coordination and Strategic Projects supporting CFO of the Bank.

In the years 2014-2017 Ms. Natalia Bożek pursued her career within Citi Group in the Polish branch of Citibank Europe PLC as Financial Planning and Analysis Head for Europe.

In the years 1999-2014 she worked at Bank Handlowy w Warszawie S.A., first as Business Planning and Analysis Expert for the Consumer Bank and then as Financial Planning and Analysis Head for Bank Handlowy covering both Consumer and Corporate Bank.

Ms. Natalia Bożek holds a Master’s degree from the Business and Administration University in Warsaw.

 

She satisfies the requirements referred to in Article 22aa of the Banking Law.

Mr. Maciej Kropidłowski has been the Vice President of the Management Board of Bank Handlowy w Warszawie S.A. since March 19, 2014.

Mr. Maciej Kropidłowski is a graduate of the University of Lodz, the Faculty of Management.

Mr. Maciej Kropidłowski has been the Financial Markets Sub-Sector Head at Bank Handlowy w Warszawie S.A. since January 2014. In February 2014 he was appointed Member of the Supervisory Board of Dom Maklerski Banku Handlowego S.A. (Brokerage House of Bank Handlowy S.A.). At Bank Handlowy w Warszawie S.A. he is responsible for Treasury operations in the area of financing of the Bank's assets, money market financial services, FX services, trading in securities and derivatives.

Mr. Maciej Kropidłowski started his career in 1995 in Citibank (Poland) S.A. in the Corporate Bank. Four years later he became an RM in the International Corporate Clients unit at Citibank N.A. in Switzerland. In 2001 he returned to Poland and joined Bank Handlowy w Warszawie S.A. as Head of Treasury Sales. In his new role he was responsible for managing the Structuring and Treasury Products Sales Unit.

In 2008 he was appointed Head of Treasury Sales for Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa at Citibank N.A. in London and he was responsible for Treasury products sales to corporate clients. He also played an important role in developing the best e-Commerce platform for corporate clients and a global CRM system for Global Markets.

 

He satisfies the requirements referred to in Article 22aa of the Banking Law..

Ms. Katarzyna Majewska assumed the position of a Member of the Management Board in charge of Operations and Technology as well as the Banking Product Research and Development Center in January 2016. She joined Citi Handlowy team from PZU Group, where she had acted as Managing Director for administration and logistics for 7 years. Before, between 1999 and 2008 Katarzyna worked in Bank Handlowy.

In the years 2017 and 2021 she was the Vice Chair of the Cybersecurity Forum at the Polish Bank Association.

She graduated from the Warsaw School of Economics and Harvard Business School and holds an MBA from the Rotterdam School of Management. Katarzyna has over 20 years of experience in banking.

Ms. Barbara Sobala assumed the position of Vice President of the Management Board of Bank Handlowy w Warszawie S.A. on October 15, 2013.

Ms. Barbara Sobala has a university degree. She graduated from the Cracow University of Economics. She has extensive (over twenty years) experience in banking, especially in risk management and corporate restructuring.

She joined Bank Handlowy in 2005 as Head of IRM. In the years 2012-2015 she was the Head of Risk for the Institutional and Corporate Bank. She is the Chairperson of the Risk and Capital Management Committee, Vice Chairperson of the Equity Investments Committee and a member of the Assets and Liabilities Management Committee (ALCO) in the Bank.

Before joining Bank Handlowy's team, she served 13 years for Bank BPH where she held various roles including Head of the Restructuring Department Head. She was also a member of the Bank's Credit Committee.

She satisfies the requirements referred to in Article 22aa of the Banking Law.

Mr. Andrzej Wilk has been the Vice President of the Management Board of Bank Handlowy w Warszawie S.A. since July 1, 2022.

Mr. Andrzej Wilk has an extensive professional experience in banking. Mr. Andrzej Wilk joined Bank Handlowy w Warszawie S.A. in 1997 as Planning and Business Analysis Specialist. Then, he held a number of managerial roles, including the CFO of Citifinancial Central Europe, supervising the development of over 200 branches and points of sale. He was also the Head of Retail Bank in Hungary, the Czech Republic and Romania. Between 2014 and 2018 he worked outside of Citi, at Moneygram Polska as the Company CEO. Then, Mr. Andrzej Wilk returned to Citi and from 2019 he served as the Head of Retail Products, Brokerage Services, Segments and Branch Network Management Division.

Mr. Andrzej holds a Master’s degree in Management and Marketing from the Wrocław University of Science and Technology.

He satisfies the requirements referred to in Article 22aa of the Banking Law.

Mr. Ivan Vrhel has been the Member of the Management Board of Bank Handlowy w Warszawie S.A. since September 29, 2022.

Mr. Ivan Vrhel has 17 years of experience in banking and management gained in many markets where entities from the Citi group operate. Mr. Ivan Vrhel started his career in 2004 at Citibank Prague in the corporate banking division, where he worked as a customer relationship manager (RM) and held a number of managerial positions, including being the Head of Emerging Corporate, a unit dealing with acquiring and developing relationships with the largest entities from the Small and Medium Enterprises segment in the Czech Republic. In 2014, Mr. Ivan Vrhel moved to Romania, where he took the position of the Head of Corporate Banking. He held this position in 2014-2021. In 2017, Mr. Ivan Vrhel was promoted to the position of the Citi Country Officer in Romania, which he held until 2021. At the same time, he was also the Director of Citibank Europe plc Branch in Romania. In this role, he was responsible for the implementation of the country's business strategy. From January 1, 2022 to July 31, 2022, Mr. Ivan Vrhel was the Head of Transaction Banking in Russia.

Mr. Ivan Vrhel holds a bachelor's and master's degree from the Charles University in Prague from the Faculty of Social Sciences (specialization: banking and capital market).

He satisfies the requirements referred to in Article 22aa of the Banking Law.