The Audit Committee is a statutory committee of the Company. Currently, the Committee comprises of three (3) members, the majority of which are Independent.
Members
Chairwoman, Ιndependent Non Executive Member of the BoD
Susana Poyiadjis
Chairwoman, Ιndependent Non Executive Member of the BoD
Mrs. Susana Poyiadjis is the Chief Executive Officer of Nexia Poyiadjis Ltd in Cyprus and a member of the Audit Committee of Nexia International, one of the largest audit, tax, and consultancy networks. Before joining Nexia Poyiadjis, Mrs. Poyiadjis launched her career in the United Kingdom where she worked for Smith & Williamson (now Evelyn Partners) and Morgan Stanley. She specializes in assurance and advisory services of organizations in the financial services sector, and holds the advanced certificate of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission.
Furthermore, she has served on several professional and business committees in Cyprus, including but not limited to, being appointed as a Vice Chairwoman of the Alternative Investment Fund committee of the Cyprus Investment Fund Association (CIFA), served as a Member of the Auditing Standards Committee of the Institute of Certified Public Accountant of Cyprus (2005-2019) and was appointed as an independent non-executive director on the Board of a systemic bank supervised by the ECB.
Mrs. Poyiadjis holds a law degree (LLB Law) from the University of Bristol (UK), is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales (ICAEW), a Registered Auditor at the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Cyprus (ICPAC) and a Licensed Insolvency Practitioner.
Member, Independent Non Executive Member of the BoD
Lampros Papadopoulos
Member, Independent Non Executive Member of the BoD
Mr. Lambros Papadopoulos started his career in 1993 at Ernst & Young in London, where he worked in the Audit (Audit -Media & Resources) and Corporate Finance – Business Valuations divisions.
From 1998 to 2012 he worked at Citigroup (London), as Head of Analysis for the Greek Stock Market, and Head of Small and Medium Cap Companies for Continental Europe. Since 2006 he has held the position of Managing Director and was a member of the Executive Committee of the Analysis Department.
Since 2017 he is member of the Board of Directors of the Company, and since April 2019 he is Chairman of the Board of Directors, while during 2017-2019 he served as a Chairman of the Audit Committee.
He has been appointed as a non-Executive Member of the Board of Directors of the Cyprus Asset Management Company (KEDIPES) in 2019 and serves as a Chairman of the Board of Directors.
Since 2022 he is an Independent Non-Executive Member of the Board of Directors of Agri Europe Cyprus Ltd where he is the Chairman of the Risk Committee.
In 2013 he served as an Independent Non-Executive Member of the Transitional Board of Directors of Bank of Cyprus, and during 2015- 2018 he was an Independent Non-Executive Member of the Board of Directors of Hellenic Bank and Chairman of the Audit Committee.
Mr. Papadopoulos holds a B.A. (Hons) Accounting with Computing (First Class) degree from the University of Kent at Canterbury (UK), and since 1996 has is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
Member, Independent Non Executive Member of the BoD
Adam Golebiowski
Member, Independent Non Executive Member of the BoD
Mrs Kourkoumeli has 27 years of experience in the banking sector, with extensive involvement in the NPE market, as well as in strategic planning, risk management, and project management. She has also taken on leadership roles in large-scale projects at Piraeus Bank aimed at the bank’s transformation.
Specifically, Mrs Kourkoumeli has worked as Assistant Credit Analyst in CITIBANK N.A. – Greece (1997-1999), and as Settlement Associate in Morgan Stanley (2000-2004) in the team for convertible bonds, GDR’ s και warrants, and evolved to Supervisor referring directly to the senior management.
Since 2004, she has joint Piraeus Bank, while she, over the years, has consecutively taken on the below position, namely, Supervisory of the Retail Reporting Unit (2004-2008), Head of Special Issues Servicing Unit (SISU) (2009-2014), Head of Corporate RBU Strategy (Recovery Banking Unti) (2014-2019), Head of NPE Strategy, Planning & Monitoring (Non-Performing Management Unit) (2019-2022), while today, holds the position of the Head of NPEMU – Securitizations & Participations, in which she is responsible for the overall management of the NPE portfolio across Piraeus Bank’s Group, including the development and implementation of the NPE and REO strategy.
Moreover today, she is Vice Chairwoman in the Board of Directors of the companies SIRRUS SINGLE MEMBER S.A., SEVTHIS SINGLE MEMBER S.A. and INTRUM BTB SINGLE MEMBER S.A., while she is also Non-Executive Member in the Board of Directors of the companies INTRUM HELLAS REO SOLUTIONS S.A., STRIX AMC and STRIX GP.
Mrs Kourkoumeli is holder of an MSc in International Banking and Financial Studies from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh and of an Honours degree in Economic Sciences from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens – Department of Economics.
New Law 4449/2017 in Article 44 provides for the composition, operation and obligations of the Audit Committee in an entity.