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- Adam Maciejewski, CEO of Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE), and Paweł Czupryna, advisor to WSE’s CEO, have joined the Board of Directors of Aquis Exchange.
Aquis Exchange, the proposed pan-European equities trading exchange[1], has appointed Adam Maciejewski, CEO of Warsaw Stock Exchange and Paweł Czupryna, advisor to the WSE’s CEO, to its Board of Directors.
In August 2013, WSE and Aquis Exchange announced that they have entered into agreement to form an alliance. Under the terms of the agreement, WSE will acquire shares representing 30% of the total vote at the Aquis Exchange General Meeting and the same share of the company's dividends and will have a right to nominate two non-executive directors to the Aquis Exchange Board of Directors.
- WSE’s business partnership with Aquis Exchange is set on solid and well thought-out foundations. Our cooperation aims at developing mutually beneficial innovations in the European equity markets – said Adam Maciejewski, CEO of the Warsaw Stock Exchange.
- I am delighted to join the Aquis Exchange Board. The Company has a great team in place and an innovative business model that will serve our clients and make the industry grow. I look forward to it. – said Paweł Czupryna.
Adam Maciejewski
In addition to heading up WSE, Adam Maciejewski is the Chairman of the Supervisory Boards of the Polish Power Exchange and BondSpot. Outside of business, he is involved in a number of educational activities: he is Chairman of the Programme Council of the Academy of Capital Markets Leaders at Leslaw A. Paga Foundation, a member of the Advisory Council to the Management Faculty at the University of Gdansk and a member of the Warsaw University of Technology Convention. He is a graduate of the Warsaw School of Economics and is the author of a number of publications.
Paweł Czupryna
Paweł Czupryna is the Advisor to the President & CEO at Warsaw Stock Exchange. Prior to this, he worked for leading European investment banks including Barclays Capital, Deutsche Bank and Raiffeisen Centrobank responsible for CEE equity sales-trading business and project management. Pawel holds an MBA from Warsaw University of Technology Business School.
[1] Aquis Exchange is awaiting the approval of the UK regulator, FCA to operate as an MTF
