Management of the Bank

Until end-November 2012 he was Head of Group Corporate and Public Finance Division in the Hypo Alpe-Adria Group in Klagenfurt for two years. Before that he was a proxy of the Management Board of Zavarovalnica Triglav for more than a year and before that he acted as a Management Board member at BAWAG banka d.d. for four years. From March 2003 to January 2005 he was Head of Corporate Sales Division at RAIFFEISEN BANKA d.d. and between October 2001 and February 2003 he was in charge of Corporate Sales Division at the then Bank Austria Creditanstalt d.d. (now Unicredit bank d.d.). This is where he started his banking career in the year 2000, whereas his business career started in 1998 in the company Publikum. In 2009 he finished his MBA studies with honours at IEDC Bled School of Management and in 1998 he graduated at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Economics. Apart from his regular work he also acted as a Supervisory Board member at eleven banking, three insurance and one manufacturing companies.

On 1 December 2012 he became a member of the Management Board of NLB responsible for Corporate Banking. Since 6 July 2016 he is the President of the Management Board.

He received his degree from the Vienna University of Technology and MBA from the international business school INSEAD in France, where he specialised in bank management and corporate finance. He started his career by working in the international consulting companies Ernst & Young (Austria) and Bain & Company (Germany). He participated in some of the major integration projects after the merger of the banks in Central and Eastern Europe and also projects aimed at improving performance results in the financial sector. He supervised the establishment and operations of the subsidiaries of Dexia-Kommunalkredit Bank in Central and Eastern Europe. During the time of financial crisis when Austria took over the bank Kommunalkredit Austria, he was responsible for restructuring of the bank and its subsidiaries. From 2011 he was responsible for managing the strategic repositioning of Kommunalkredit Austria. He held several top management positions in the bank, especially in finance.  

On 31st July 2013 he became a Member of the Management Board responsible for the financial area (Chief Financial Officer). 

He holds the Master’s Degree in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Budapest. He came to the NLB from Erste Bank, the second largest universal bank in Hungary, where he was the COO for the last six years. He has more than 20 years of experience in banking, process reengineering, optimisation and simplification of core banking products. He has also worked on IT system centralisation, integration and harmonisation as well as implementation of contemporary IT platforms customised to meet business needs and challenges. Among other, he gained his experience in HSBC CEE. From 1994 to 2007 he held various positions in the international financial group Citibank. He started his career in Citibank Budapest as Card Operations Manager. After that he pursued his career in their Asia-Pacific Regional Office in Singapore, followed by the position of Operations and Technology Director in the Citibank Handlowy, Poland, and Citibank, Budapest.   

He became a member of NLB Management Board on 25 October 2016 as Chief Operating Officer responsible for IT, operations, general services and procurement functions.