Board of Directors

Board of Directors

Carla (dit Carla) Smits-Nusteling
Independent Non-Executive Director

Clara (dit Carla) Smits-Nusteling was appointed a member of the Allegro Board on September 1, 2020. Ms. Smits-Nusteling is currently Non-Executive Director and Audit Chair of Nokia Corporation and Board member at Stichting Continuiteit Ahold Delhaize - a foundation organised under the laws of the Netherlands to safeguard the interests of Koninklijke Ahold Delhaize N.V. Previously, Ms. Smits-Nusteling was Non-Executive Director and Audit Chair of ASML, Chairwoman of the Board of Tele2 AB, lay judge of the Enterprise Court of the Amsterdam Court of Appeal as well as CFO and member of the Board of Management of Royal KPN N.V. She also held several finance and business-related positions at Royal KPN N.V. (including responsibility for risk management) and PostNL. Ms. Smits-Nusteling holds a Master's degree in Business Economics from the Erasmus University of Rotterdam and an Executive Master of Finance and Control degree from the VU University of Amsterdam.

In November 2023, Ms. Smits-Nusteling informed the Board that intends to transition her role as Chairperson of the Audit Committee and Director of the Board of the Company to a successor. She intends to remain as Chairperson of the Audit Committee and non-executive Director until the Annual General Meeting in 2024, to complete the oversight of the Company’s annual financial reporting for 2023. Ms. Smits-Nusteling supports engaging a recruiter to begin the process of seeking her successor. She will also continue to fulfill the responsibilities of her position until a new Audit Committee Chairperson is appointed by the Board and a smooth transition has been executed.

Catherine Faiers
Independent Non-Executive Director

Catherine Faiers was appointed a member of the Allegro Board on May 12, 2023. Catherine Faiers is a highly regarded e-commerce leader, with proven executive experience in roles across strategy, sales, marketing, product, technology, finance, and operations. Over her career, she has been responsible for successfully delivering digital, data and technology transformations at three leading marketplaces: Auto Trader, Addison Lee and Trainline. Currently, she holds the position of Chief Operating Officer at Auto Trader Group plc (FTSE 100 company), being an Executive Board Director, an attendee at all Board committees and a member of the Executive team. She is Certified Senior Manager at Auto Trader under the FCA SM&CR and sits on the Exec Risk Committee at Auto Trader. She has a carbon literacy training qualification with the carbon literacy trust https://carbonliteracy.com/. She sits in the corporate and social responsibility committee at Auto Trader which is responsible for ESG & Climate strategy. Previously she was a Chief Operating Officer at Addison Lee, with responsibility for running the day-to-day operations of the business, strategy and M&A. Before that, working as a Director of a leading online business at Trainline, she was responsible for strategy, change, M&A, and investor relations. Catherine Faiers gained corporate finance experience at Director level, providing Board-level advice to public and private companies covering: M&A, debt, IPO and pensions. She also worked as a Chartered Accountant and Audit team leader on a number of key accounts at PwC.

Darren Huston
Chairman, Non-Executive Director

Darren Huston joined the Group as Executive Chairman in January 2017 and was appointed as a member of Allegro's Board on May 12, 2017. Upon the conversion of the group to a public limited liability company (société anonyme) was appointed as a Director of the Issuer as of August 27, 2020, with his term as a Board member renewed on September 1, 2020. Previously, Mr. Huston was CEO of Booking.com and Group CEO of the Priceline Group and has also held various roles with Microsoft (including as CEO of Microsoft Japan), Starbucks and McKinsey & Company. Mr. Huston is the CEO and Founder of BlackPines Capital Partners and also Chairman of Skyscanner, The Knot Worldwide, and Operto. He holds an MBA degree from Harvard University and an MA in Economics from the University of British Columbia.

In October 2023 Mr Huston informed the Board that he intends to transition his role as Chairman and Director of the Company in the coming months to a successor. He supports engaging a recruiter to begin the process of seeking his successor. Mr Huston will also continue to fulfill the responsibilities of his position until a successor is found and a smooth transition has been executed.

David Barker
Non-Executive Director

David Barker led Cinven's investment in Allegro and has been a member of the supervisory boards of the Allegro and Ceneo.pl operating companies since 2017. He was appointed a member of the Board of Directors on 1 September 2020. Mr. Barker joined Cinven in 1996 and is a partner and a member of the Investment Committee at Cinven. He has been involved in many of Cinven's technology, media, and telecom investments. Mr. Barker holds a BA degree from Cambridge University.

Roy Perticucci
CEO of Allegro.eu, Executive Director

Roy Perticucci joined Allegro as CEO in September 2022. He is a business leader with over 20 years of experience at the helm of retail and e-commerce businesses internationally. Prior to joining Allegro he led the European Operations/Customer Fulfillment at Amazon between 2013-2020 and for a short time simultaneously held the same responsibility for North America. Previously, he held senior roles at large retailers including Ahold (Albert.nl), Dixon’s, and Tesco across Europe. He began his career as a software developer at Accenture in Milan, and later as a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group in Munich.

Jonathan Eastick
CFO of Allegro.eu, Executive Director

Jonathan ("Jon") Eastick joined the Group as CFO in February 2018 and was appointed as a member and executive director of the Allegro Board on September 1, 2020, following the Group's IPO. Mr. Eastick is also a member of the Allegro Management Board. Previously, he was a director at Ernst & Young. He has 35 years of experience in finance and management including 23 years in CFO roles from Allegro, Netia, Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa, and Lucent Technologies Poland. Mr. Eastick holds a Bachelor of Science in International Trade and Development Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science and is a British Chartered Accountant.

Nancy Cruickshank
Independent Non-Executive Director

Nancy Cruickshank was appointed a member of the Allegro Board on September 1, 2020. She has Chaired Allegro's Remuneration and Nomination committee since May 2022. Ms. Cruickshank is an Operating Partner at Exponent PE in London, where she also Chairs two of their portfolio companies, Go City and Wowcher. Ms. Cruickshank is also an independent Non-Executive at Flutter Entertainment Plc (FTSE 100). Previously, she was Chief Digital Officer at Carlsberg, having held a NED position with the company for 18 months prior to joining the Executive Team. She has worked in the digital industry for 25+ years, including launching Conde Nast online in 1996, overseeing Telegraph Media Group's digital business and operating as a serial entrepreneur to build the beauty marketplace, MyShowcase, and the fashion and beauty market leader, Handbag.com between 2001 and 2006, leading to a successful sale to Hearst Corporation in 2006. Ms. Cruickshank holds a Bachelor of History from the University of Leeds.

Paweł Padusiński
Non-Executive Director

Paweł Padusiński led MidEuropa's investment in Allegro and has been a member of the supervisory boards of Allegro and Ceneo operating companies since 2017. He was appointed a member of the Issuer's Board on September 1, 2020. Mr. Padusiński is a partner at MidEuropa where he has worked since 2005. Prior to joining MidEuropa, Mr. Padusiński worked in the corporate finance department at PwC in Warsaw. He holds an M.Sc. in Finance & Banking and Strategic Management from the Warsaw School of Economics.

Pedro Arnt
Independent Non-Executive Director

Pedro Arnt was appointed a member of the Allegro Board on June 22, 2022. Mr. Arnt has been working for over 20 years in various senior leadership capacities in the consumer internet industry. He is currently the CEO of dLocal, a publicly listed, global leader in emerging markets fintech. Prior to that, Pedro served for over 12 years as the Chief Financial Officer of MercadoLibre (MELI), one of the largest global marketplaces and Latin America’s most popular e-commerce site by number of visitors. Prior to joining MELI in 1999, Mr. Arnt worked for the Boston Consulting Group in its Buenos Aires and São Paulo offices. Over his career, he has held roles in various capacities, gaining multi-year experience leading a variety of teams from early-stage corporate development and marketing, through managing the company’s customer experience operations, continuing as Vice President of Strategic Planning, Treasury & Investor Relations. He was a member of Mercado Libre’s Risk Committee, and led the company's ESG & Climate agenda. He currently sits on dLocals Risk Committee. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Haverford College and a master’s from the University of Oxford.

Richard Sanders
Non-Executive Director

Richard Sanders led Permira's investment in Allegro and has been a member of the supervisory boards of the Allegro and Ceneo.pl operating companies since 2017. He was appointed a member of the Board of Directors on 1 September 2020. Mr. Sanders joined Permira in 1999 and is a partner and a member of the Executive and Investment Committees. At Permira, Mr. Sanders was the Co-Head of Technology until 2023 and has extensive experience in the sector. Since February 2022, Mr Sanders has been a Board member of MercadoLibre (MELI). Mr. Sanders holds an MA degree from Oxford University and an MBA degree from Stanford University.

Tomasz Suchański
Independent Non-Executive Director

Tomasz Suchański was appointed a member of the Issuer's Board on May 12, 2023. He is the CEO of the Żabka Group and many years of experience and deep understanding of the mechanisms that govern the industry allow him to direct the activities of Żabka in a way that has resulted in the position of the leader of the convenience model in Central and Eastern Europe. He is also a chairman of an ESG committee in Żabka Group. Prior to becoming CEO in March 2016, he was involved with various Jeronimo Martins companies. He worked in the group’s international structures, and before that, from 2011 to 2014, he was the General Manager of the Biedronka retail chain in Poland. Previously, he held the positions of Chief Financial Officer of Jeronimo Martins Polska, its Member of the Management Board and operational director of the central region. Before coming to Poland in 2005, he worked on the international market dealing with Portuguese chains of the Jeronimo Martins group. In 2003, he took up the post of Financial Director of the Recheio wholesale chain, and earlier, as a member of the Financial Department, he was in charge of Pingo Doce supermarkets and Feira Nova hypermarkets.