Piotr Szczepiórkowski

Piotr Szczepiórkowski is an expert in pension systems, asset management and capital markets. A licensed investment advisor (licence No. 136), full member of the Polish Society of Actuaries, and member of CFA Society Poland (CFA Charterholder). Mr Szczepiórkowski, graduate of the Faculty of Chemical and Process Engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology (1985), started his professional career as an assistant at the Faculty of Chemical and Process Engineering of his alma mater (1985–1990). Later, he worked at the Ministry of Finance (Department of Financial Institutions) and Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego (Department of Monetary Management). For many years (1993–2016) he worked for the Commercial Union Polska Group (currently Aviva Polska), serving in various roles at the Financial Department of the life insurance company: initially as an accountant (6 months’ internship), then as Deputy Financial Director (12 months), and as Deputy Investment Director (1995–1998). During that period, he established investment policies, developed a methodology for the operation of the Guaranteed Fund and built a leading investment team. He joined Commercial Union PTE in 1999 as Vice President of the Management Board, Investment Director. He assembled a 10-strong Investment Department team responsible for managing the assets of the largest open-ended investment fund. Appointed President of the Management Board of Commercial Union PTE in 2001, he supervised the sales process and marketing and investment activities of the Fund. He managed the work of the management company’s Investment and Strategic Committees. Member of the Audit Committee of the Chamber of Commerce of Pension Funds (IGTE). As a member of the Polish Institute of Directors, he was actively involved in the implementation of corporate governance standards on the Polish capital market. In 2008–2016, as Vice President of the Management Board of Aviva Towarzystwo Ubezpieczeń na Życie, he was responsible for (individual and group) life insurance product policy as well as health and investment insurance offering. Mr Szczepiórkowski contributed to upgrading basic insurance products and helped modernise the applied underwriting rules. In that period, he was Chair and Deputy Chair of the Life Insurance Committee of the Polish Insurance Association. He was in charge of a working group introducing the rules of gender-neutral premiums and collaborated with ULIPs in the implementation of an information standard, i.e. the product card. During his professional career he has passed all 14 exams under a training programme to achieve the ACCA qualification, completed Executive Management Development courses organised by CEDEP (Fontainebleau), Columbia University and Wharton School of Business. At present, he is a member of Supervisory Boards of the following WSE-listed companies: FM Forte S.A., Ipopema Securities S.A., Octava S.A., Decora S.A., as well as a member of the Supervisory Board and Chair of the Audit Committee of Ipopema TFI S.A.