The Supervisory Board of VOLARIA AI S.A. (NewConnect: VAI) has co-opted H.H. Prince Francisco de Borbón y Graf von Hardenberg as a member. He replaces Dr Anna Wilińska-Zelek, who has stepped down from the Board and continues to work with the company on VAI.Legal.
Born in Madrid in 1979, Prince Francisco is a member of the House of Bourbon and a distant cousin of King Felipe VI of Spain. He graduated from Barry University in Miami and began his career in sport, first at IMG and then as Sports Director of CMG in Madrid. In 2005 he founded the ASAP Sports agency and became, at the time, the youngest licensed FIFA agent in Spain. In 2014 he received Spain’s Laurel de Platino award as Businessman of the Year.
He is a co-founder of a Nasdaq-listed company and a beneficiary of the family trust associated with the Graf Hardenberg group, one of the leading Volkswagen, Porsche and Audi dealership groups in southern Germany. The automotive sector is exactly where VOLARIA AI is now developing its solutions: on 5 November the company announced a letter of intent with MM Cars Premium, an authorised Jaguar Land Rover dealer in Warsaw (current report ESPI No. 14/2026).
Since 2018 he has been the 50th Grand Master of the Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem and President of the Saint Lazarus Foundation. The Order, active in more than 50 countries, has worked with VOLARIA AI since June 2026.
“Francisco is an entrepreneur who knows Nasdaq from the inside and understands the car business, where we are now taking AI, from the perspective of a large dealership group. His experience is very valuable for the future of VOLARIA AI. We thank Dr Anna Wilińska-Zelek, who stays with us on VAI.Legal,” says Bartosz Kotliński, CEO of VOLARIA AI S.A.
Details: EBI reports No. 15/2026 and 16/2026, available at newconnect.pl.
