DARIUSZ PAPROT

Dariusz Paprot, 34, was appointed vice president of Hortex Holding, responsible for the firm's finance and cost-reduction activities. He had been a member of Hortex's supervisory board since October 2000. Paprot was an investment manager at BankAmerica Equity Partners Europe since September 2000, where one of his duties included implementing the financial restructuring of Hortex. From 1998-2000, he was a banker at the Warsaw office of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, overseeing several projects dealing with liability and capital investment. From 1997-1998, he was manager of Chase Fund Management Polska. Paprot graduated from the foreign trade department at the Warsaw School of Economics.