Management Board of Apator SA announces that on 5th October 2016 it nominated Tom Ruhan independent proxy – Adviser of Management Board.

Tom Ruhan has graduated faculty of law from University of Warwick in the United Kingdom.

He has Irish citizenship.

In 2003 – 2014 Tom Ruhan was Legal and Acquisition Managing Director and he was the Member of Management Board of Netia SA. Under his obligations as legal adviser he supervised the completion of financial restructuring process of Netia SA, conversion of its licensing charges, acquisitions and integration process of about 60 entities. Tom Ruhan was also the supervisor of regulation policy of the Company and coordinated many trials at the court in Netia Group.

In 2009 – 2014 he was also the Member of Management Board (and in 2011 – 2014 President of Management Board) of European Competitive Telecommunication Association Association (ECTA).      For three tenures (three years each) he has been Deputy Chairman of Telecommunication Operators Section at the Polish Chamber of Commerce for Electronics and Telecommunications.

In 1991 – 2003 he was employed in Wardyński & Partners law firm as the adviser in many transactions.

Currently, Tom Ruhan is the Member of the Council of the Polish Chamber of Commerce for Electronics and Telecommunications. Moreover, he is also Deputy Chairman of the Council of the” Grow with Us „ Foundation aimed at financial assistance and education of the children whose parents died serving the public (children of firemen, soldiers, mountain rescuers, policemen).

Tom Ruhan does not run any competitive activity to Apator SA. He is not in any competitive entity as the partner of civil partnership and he is not a member of any corporate body of competitive capital company or any other legal person as its member.

Tom Ruhan is not entered in Insolvent Debtors Register kept based on National Court Register Act.

Legal basis: § 5 para 1 point 22 and § 28 of the Regulation of Minister of Finance regarding current and regular information being transferred by the issuers of securities and conditions to be considered as equivalent information required by law of the state not being the member of the EU.