New Board Members are supporting the organisation in its further development in the offshore wind industry from 2 September 2024. Janusz Bil has been acting as Chairman of the Board of ORLEN Neptun for the past two months.
Joanna Sasak will serve as Board Member for Finance.
She is a finance executive with over 20 years of experience in strategic areas such as energy, fuels, aviation and telecommunications. She gained her energy experience during 13 years in the industry. Initially at RWE Group (2003-2012), where she held a number of management and leadership positions in the areas of investment, network asset management, energy and gas procurement. From 2020 to 2024, as Member of the Management Board of AXPO Poland, an energy company belonging to the Swiss AXPO Group, where she managed the departments of finance, controlling, tax, treasury, internal audit. From 2013 to 2018, she served as Vice President of the Management Board of Orlen Aviation, where she was responsible for comprehensive financial management of the company belonging to the ORLEN Group. A graduate of many university courses, including International MBA, finance and management, psychology or business leadership, which she completed at, among others, St. Gallen Business School in Switzerland, Cracow University of Economics, Warsaw University or Warsaw University of Technology.
Kamil Kobyliński will hold the position of Board Member for Operations.
A manager and expert in the energy sector, he has been involved in the Polish and European energy industry for over 20 years. He gained his experience in international and national companies from the Energy and Oil & Gas sector, passing through all levels of his professional career. He has worked for companies such as Vattenfall, PGNiG Termika, Tauron Polska Energia, GE Power, PGE Group, EdP Renewables and TotalEnergies. He specialises in management, organisation building, strategic consulting and energy transition project management. For more than 5 years he has been associated with offshore wind energy, where he held managerial positions, e.g. Director of Offshore Wind Farm Projects at PGE Baltica or Director of Offshore at TotalEnergies in Poland. Former board member of TotalEnergies Renewables in Poland.
A graduate of the Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology, he also holds an MBA degree from the Leon Koźmiński Academy in Warsaw.
ORLEN Neptun is responsible for the development of offshore wind energy in the ORLEN Group. In October 2023, the company obtained the final decision of the Minister of Infrastructure to grant five new locations for the construction of offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea with a total capacity of approximately 5.2 GW. Four of the sites are located on the Oder Bank, near Świnoujście, where the corporation is building its installation port for offshore wind installations. The fifth site is located on the Central Shoal. This area borders the site where the 1140 MW Baltic Power wind farm is to be developed by the ORLEN Group in cooperation with its Canadian partner Northland Power.
Source: Orlen Neptun