The 12 candidates nominated by the ministry also include the five current members in the company’s board.
The list includes Ionut-Mircea Costea (former president of EximBank), Dumitru Popescu, Gabriel Mihai Buia, Dragos Eugen Doros, Herbert Johannes Arents, Johannes Michael Bodekker and Peter Grobmuller, Transgaz said in a statement Friday.
The current members in Transgaz’s Executive Board, who were appointed in April this year, are Ion Sterian, Ion Petru Vaduva (former CEO of Tiriac Holdings), George Bogdan Iliescu, Stefan Radu Cernov and Ioan Rusu (former general manager of Transgaz). After their appointment, investment fund Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO) called for a new general meeting of shareholders to elect new board members through cumulative voting.
Proprietatea, which controls 14.9% of Transgaz, proposes Nicolae Vlad Neacsu for a position of board member and SIF Moldova (SIF2.RO), minority shareholder of the company, proposes Ioan Rusu.
Transgaz is majority owned by the Finance Ministry.
On the Bucharest bourse Friday, Transgaz closed up 1.11%, at 186 lei (EUR41) a share. (EUR1=RON4.5209)