Management Board and its responsibilities

She got a Master Degree in sinology at the Faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures and in political science at the Faculty of Political Science and Journalism of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. She was educated in Shanghai, Beijing, at the Rockefeller Foundation and the Bertelsmann Foundation. She has a many-year experience of working at statutory bodies of commercial law companies. Since 2013 a member of the Supervisory Board of Kulczyk Investments, in the years 2015–2018 the Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board of KI. The co-founder of the Values Consulting Group which conducts training on business psychology. In 2013–2016 the Vice-President of the Polish Olympic Committee. The initiator of the Polish branch of the Green Cross International. The originator and co-founder of the Kulczyk Foundation, a non-profit organisation providing aid in Poland and in the world. She is a member of the Board of the UN Global Compact Poland and the Ambassador of the SOS Children’s Villages in Poland. She is a member of Young Leaders for Tomorrow, a global initiative of young leaders. The Dame of the Order of the Smile.

Tom O’Brien is a Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer of Brookfield’s Renewable Power Group, responsible for leading and developing the European business.

Mr. O’Brien joined Brookfield in 2014, following the acquisition of Bord Gaís Energy’s Irish renewable power business and has since held a number of roles across the organization, most recently acting as Chief Financial Officer for the European renewable power business. Prior to joining Brookfield, Mr. O’Brien held senior commercial and financial roles across several organizations. Mr. O’Brien is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland.

Szymon Adamczyk is a graduate of the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice. He also completed postgraduate studies in management at the University of Economics in Katowice.

He started his professional career in 1992 in a company operating in the steel industry. Between 2000-2002 he was involved in the gas station construction industry in Poland. From 2002 to 2023, he developed, managed and supervised Alumetal SA, a company specializing in scrap recycling and production of aluminium alloys, primarily for the automotive industry.

Since 2018, he was or has been a member of the Supervisory Boards of many industrial companies, among others, in the recycling and metal production, agricultural, infrastructure and renewable energy sectors, including Polenergia S.A., Torpol S.A., U_Cont Sp. z o. o., Alumetal S.A., Feerum S.A..

He provides extensive advisory services to companies from the aluminium recycling and steel industry sectors.

During 1997-2002 Orest Nazaruk has been working for Arthur Andersen Company, auditing financial statements of banks and insurance companies and providing restructuring advisory services for companies from oil, gas and energy sectors. After that, during 2002-2004 he has been working in the Ministry of State Treasury as a Deputy Director in Restructuring and Public Aid Department being responsible for restructuring programmes preparation and supervision over state-owned oil, gas and energy companies. During 2004-2006 Orest Nazaruk took part in establishing independent gas Transmission System Operator Gaz-System and has been a member of its first management board responsible for finance and trade. During next years – 2006-2015 – he has been working as a member of management boards of companies: Selbud Inwestycje, PGNiG Energia and PGNiG Technologie as a restructuring process advisor. He was a member of numerous supervisory boards of oil, gas and energy companies (Towarowa Giełda Energii, Anwil, PKN Orlen, Mazowiecka Spółka Gazownictwa, Elektrociepłownia Stalowa Wola).

Orest Nazaruk has graduated from Warsaw University – Faculty of Management, with the risk management on futures market specialization. He has attended numerous international trainings on International Accounting Standards, strategic management, restructuring programmes and risk management on futures market in gas and energy.

Ignacio Paz-Ares Aldanondo is a senior vice-president in Brookfield’s Renewable Energy Group, leading the team responsible for investment origination, analysis and execution across Europe. Mr. Paz-Ares Aldanondo joined Brookfield in 2015 and has held a number of investment roles in Brookfield’s Renewable Energy Group in Europe. He has held his current role since 2019. Prior to joining Brookfield, Mr. Paz-Ares was an investment banking analyst at Citi. Mr. Paz-Ares Aldanondo holds a law and business studies degree from Universidad Autonoma de Madrid.

Emmanuelle Rouchel has over 20 years of experience as legal counsel. She joined Brookfield in 2015 and is a Senior Vice-President and General Counsel for Brookfield´s European Renewable Power Group. Prior to joining Brookfield, Ms. Rouchel was a senior legal counsel in the international upstream oil & gas sector. She started her career at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York, where she focused on cross-border mergers and acquisitions and capital markets transactions.

She holds post-graduate law degrees from Columbia University, where she was a Fulbright scholar and a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar, and from Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas, as well as a graduate business degree from Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris (ESCP). She is an English solicitor and is also admitted to the Bar in New York and Paris.

Professor Piotr Ciżkowicz is a manager and scientist with many years of experience in building and leading teams with interdisciplinary competences. As a member of the management board of PKP Group, he was responsible for the implementation of capital transactions with a total value exceeding PLN 4 billion (PKP ENERGETYKA, PKP CARGO, Polskie Koleje Linowe, TK Telekom) and real estate transactions with a total value exceeding PLN 1 billion. He has implemented the most extensive railway transformation programme in Poland, including multi-billion investments in rolling stock and railway stations and a comprehensive passenger service improvement programme.

Previously at Ernst&Young, he headed the Economic Strategy Team and also advised on M&A transactions. He led a number of advanced transformation projects in commercial banks (Raiffeissen Bank, Kredyt Bank) and public institutions (National Bank of Poland, Ministry of Finance). He has been a member of the supervisory boards of a number of listed, state-owned and municipal companies, and currently holds this position at PFR Ventures and Nunatak Capital portfolio companies.

Mikołaj Franzkowiak is a law graduate from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, where he earned a master’s degree with a specialization in financial law. He also studied law and finance at Erasmus University Rotterdam and completed doctoral studies at the Faculty of Management at Poznań University of Economics and Business.

He holds an international Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) certification and has participated in numerous training programs in accounting, finance, and management, including postgraduate studies in accounting at Poznań University of Economics and Business.

Mikołaj Franzkowiak began his professional career at Ernst & Young, initially as a lawyer and later as an analyst in the mergers and acquisitions advisory team.

For the past 25 years, he has been involved in financial management. His experience includes working at ENEA S.A. as a Management Board Member (Vice President for Finance), where he was responsible for finance, controlling, IT, and risk management. He also served as a Member of the Supervisory Board at Colian Holding S.A., where he chaired the Audit Committee. Additionally, he worked at BZ WBK (now Santander Bank Polska S.A.) as Director of the Department responsible for controlling and management accounting for corporate clients, as well as Director of the Department overseeing financial accounting for the ALM and Treasury areas. He was also a Member of the Supervisory Board of BZ WBK Faktor sp. z o.o. (a factoring company).

For the past six years, Mikołaj Franzkowiak has been responsible for the financial sector at Emtel System sp. z o.o., one of the leading companies in Poland specializing in teletechnical installations for hospitals.