| On 24th June the BPCC held its Annual General Meeting and Board elections. BPCC chairman David Thomas opened the meeting with a report of the BPCC’s activities over the previous year: “Following a successful year in 2007, the BPCC's 2008/9 strategy was predominantly to build on existing strengths as well as introducing some new events and services. Financially, the goal was to break even, due to a large amount of capital investment.”
Mr Thomas also personally thanked the British Embassy in Poland for their continued co-operation and support of the Chamber, the BPCC Executive Team, Martin Oxley and Suzy Adcock for their hard work over the previous year and most importantly the BPCC members without whom the Chamber could not exist.
Joe Smoczyński, honorary treasurer then presented the financial statements for the year ended 31st December 2008. Mr Smoczyński reflected that 2008 had been a difficult year for both the Chamber and many of its members and that the “economic downturn was felt by the memberships' response to the services offered and carried out by the BPCC.” To read the full reports from the chairman and honorary treasurer, please click here.
Applicants for a position on the BPCC board then presented their cases which had also been circulated amongst the entire membership prior to the AGM to enable members to place postal votes. We had one of the highest voter turnouts ever which was an outstanding achievement and it was an incredibly close run contest.
After the votes were counted the new BPCC board of directors is as follows:
Chairman - David Thomas, Financier
Vice Chairman - Antoni F. Reczek, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Vice Chairman - Michael Clay, Davidoff, Kleeberg & Maresch
Honorary Treasurer - Joe Smoczyński, Baker Tilly Smoczyński i Partnerzy
BPCC Honorary Secretary - Nicholas Fielding, TGC Corporate Lawyers
Directors:
John Duckworth, Jones Lang LaSalle
Oliver Murphy, Deloitte
Nicholas Richardson, RRO Richardson & Partners
David Surdeau, Tesco Polska
Aleksander Granowski
Roy Newey, A4E
Simon Walker, HSBC Bank Polska
Liz Basing, Ex-Officio, British Embassy, Commercial Section
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The BPCC would also like to thank Jane Durrant, Hill International and Michał Młynarczyk, Hays Poland who retired from the board this year and did not stand for re-election.
In addition attendees of the AGM confirmed the appointment of auditors Strategia and there was a majority vote for both the adoption of the new Memorandum and Articles of Association and the approval of the financial statements.
Martin Oxley, BPCC CEO commented: “In the current economic environment we have a unique and superb opportunity to work together to promote British Polish bilateral opportunity for mutual benefit. I look forward to working with the board and making 2009/10 an excellent year for our members.”
For contact details for the BPCC Board of Directors please click here.
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