The Sports Totalizer Supervisory Board announced on Friday that Beata Stelmach would take the position of CEO of the company. This decision ends with a multi-week deadlock in the selection of a fresh leader of 1 of the most crucial companies of the Treasury. Stelmach will take office on 1 February 2025. These are the details of this nomination and the controversy that accompanied the selection process.
The selection process for the fresh President
The athletics Totalizer, full owned by the Treasury, has remained without permanent president since October 2023 after the cancellation of Rafał Krzemień. The duties of the head of the company were temporarily assumed by the board member, Mariusz Błaszkiewicz. As the Onet website emphasizes, the Supervisory Board for respective weeks could not decide on the choice of a fresh leader. The competition was held in November 2024, but despite interviews with respective candidates, the decision was not made until January 2025.
Newbie Beata Stelmach
Beata Stelmach is an experienced manager with a rich professional background. He presently serves as president of the Supervisory Board of the Association of Issuers of Stock Exchanges (SEG) and sits on the supervisory board of Millennium Bank. She is simply a postgraduate of the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH), where she graduated from the Faculty of Finance and Statistics. It besides holds MBA titles obtained at Calgary University and INSEAD.
Her career includes:
- Management at Prokom Software SA (2001-2005),
- Acting Director-General for Poland and the Baltic countries in General electrical (2013-2018),
- Position of president of PZL Świdnik (2018-2020),
- Job in the planet Bank and sitting on the supervisory boards of Bank BPH and HSBC Bank Polska.
From 2011 to 2013, she was Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of abroad Affairs, liable for global economical policy and public diplomacy.
Changes in the athletics Totaliser
Recent months have brought crucial changes to the structures of the athletics Totaliser. As Onet reported, in late September 2024 the company appointed fresh directors in 13 regions of Poland. These people can number on salaries of over PLN 20 1000 per month.
"Local activists PO, PSL and Left, close co-workers of the leading parliamentarians of the ruling coalition, and even a pitched colleague of Donald Tusk – this is the list of beneficiaries of the latest changes in the athletics Totalizer", Onet reported.
Minister of State Assets Jakub Jaworowski announced the implementation of fresh management standards in the company. Interestingly, the erstwhile regional directors have formally lost their positions, but have remained in the structures as responsibilities.
Controversy around the nomination
The process of selecting a fresh president and staff changes in the athletics Totalizer has sparked many controversy. 1 point indicates that "the 5th supervisory board decision was taken after respective weeks of deadlock". There is no deficiency of opinion that persons with political ties have been appointed as regional posts, which raises questions about transparency of decision-making processes in the State Treasury company.
Summary
The appointment of the president of the board by Beata Stelmach is an crucial change for the athletics Totalizer. The fresh leader brings rich managerial experience and cognition of global economical structures. The decision to set it up means the conclusion of a multi-monthly chaos in the management of the company. However, it is worth tracking whether the fresh standards announced by the Ministry of State Actors will actually be implemented and how they will influence the further activities of the athletics Totalizer.
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The athletics Totalizer has a fresh CEO
