Jarosław Myjak

Vice President of the Bank's Management Board in charge of corporate market

Jarosław Myjak (born in 1955) earned the degree of Master of Arts at the Faculty of English Philology (American Studies) (1978) and at the Faculty of Law and Administration (1981) at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Moreover, he studied at the Faculty of Economy at Toronto University (economic programme - 1976-1977).

He is a graduate also, for instance, of Columbia Business School New York (Leadership for the Future), INSEAD/CEDEP Fontainebleau, France - General Management Programme (1998-1999), Sundridge Park, Great Britain - Management Development Programme.

He completed a judge training programme at the Regional Court in Poznań.
He is barrister and legal adviser, a member of the Warsaw Bar Council and the Warsaw Chamber of Legal Advisers.

He worked as a legal adviser for law offices Altheimer & Gray and Dewey & LeBouef, where he participated in privatisation and restructuring proceedings, investment and insurance consulting, while representing both the State Treasury and foreign investors.
Moreover, he was also a lecturer at the Faculty of Law and Administration at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.

Being one of the leaders and strategists of the Polish market of insurance and long-term savings, he was responsible for establishing and developing one of the biggest financial services groups - Commercial Union (now Aviva) in Poland and Lithuania and establishment (in 1998-2004) a cooperation model of CU Group with bank WBK SA, later BZWBK SA that included capital and distribution participation of the Bank in CU Insurance Companies and the pension fund company, and bancassurance development.

In order to enhance the offer for customers, being among pioneers who promoted the pension reform in Poland, he was responsible for the strategic vision, founding and market success of PTE Commercial Union BPH WBK, that became the market leader.

His strategy of defending customer portfolio, ensuring appropriate services for customers and attracting new market segments resulted in an establishment of asset management company, investment fund company, sector of personal - property insurance, a transfer agent and a distribution company.

While managing the financial group, he restructured it through introducing full holding management that used synergy effects.

He participated in the merger of Commercial Union and Norwich Union (CU Europe).

In 2000-2004 the President of Commercial Union Group (now AVIVA) in Poland and Lithuania.
In Commercial Union Polska Ubezpieczenia na Życie he was a member of the Management Board (1995), first Vice President of the Management Board (1996 - 1997) and then the President of the Management Board (1998 - 2004).

He has 20 years of experience in shareholder supervision. In 1998-2004 he was also the chairperson of the Supervisory Councils of Commercial Union companies in Poland and Lithuania, that is CU PTE, CU TFI, CU Ogólne, CU Asset Management, CU Sp. z o.o. (Transfer Agent) and CU Lithuania (Lietuvos Draudimas).

Moreover, he served as a member of the Supervisory Council and the Strategic Committee of Citibank Handlowy SA, the Supervisory Council and the Steering Committee of BGŻ SA, he was responsible - on behalf of the Ministry of the State Treasury - for the bank's privatisation project and he was a member of the Supervisory Council of Polski Holding Farmaceutyczny SA, President of the Supervisory Board of PKO BP Finat Sp z o.o. and Vice President of the Supervisory Board of PZU Życie SA.

At the moment he is the President of the Supervisory Boards of Bankowy Fundusz Leasingowy SA and PKO BP Faktoring SA.

In 2006 and from 2008 he has served as the Vice President of the Management Board of PKO BP Bank in charge of corporate banking.

For a few terms of office Mr Jarosław Myjak was a member of the Polish Business Roundtable, the vice president and member of the Management Board of the Polish Chamber of Insurance, the vice president of the Polish Confederation of Private Employers "Lewiatan"", president of the Association of Insurance Capital Group in the Polish Confederation of Private Employers "Lewiatan" and a member of the Association of Managers in Poland.
As a member of such industry associations as the Polish Chamber of Insurance and the Polish Confederation of Private Employers "Lewiatan" he participated in the works of parliamentary committees aimed at amending the insurance law and working out the law on pension funds, investment funds and in the health system reform project teams supporting the Minister of Health, Minister of Labour and Minister of Economy.

Manager of the Year 2002, he was granted the award "For Contribution to the Polish Insurance Market" and "Golden Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland".