Christoph Schoefboeck has been appointed President of the Management Board of Erste Bank Croatia in May 2015.

Mr. Schoefboeck has extensive and long-standing experience in various management positions. Before coming to his current position, he was the CRO (Chief Risk Officer) in Erste Bank Croatia in the period 2011-2015, at the same time holding various Supervisory Board functions within Erste Group Croatia. Prior to that he was the COO (Chief Operating Officer) and a Member of the Board in ZAO Raiffeisenbank in Moscow, in charge of all operational and IT activities of the bank including a successful large bank merger and holding business responsibilty for a large business region. From 2003 to 2006 he was the CRO and COO in HVB Splitska banka, and from 2002 to 2003 he was the authorised representative and Member of the Board in HVB Croatia d.d.

Mr. Schoefboeck holds a doctorate in economics from Faculty of Economics at Vienna University, where he was also involved in large research projects. He attended numerous management trainings in Switzerland, Great Britain and USA.

Apart from his mother tongue, German, Mr. Schoefboeck is also fluent in Croatian, English and Russian.

Responsibilities: Human Resources Division, Marketing Division, Internal Audit Division, Corporate Communication Office, Strategy and Project Management Division, SME Division, Large Corporates Division, Corporates and Markets Business Development and Support Division, Financial Markets Divison and Office od the Management Board.

Krešimir Barić has been employed at EBC since December 2006, and he will become a Board Member after spending 15 years at managerial positions within the fields of accounting and controlling. He spent a year at Erste Group in Vienna as the Head of Performance and Capital management and gained additional international experience there. Other than that, he took part in rotational training programs within Erste Group, as well as many group projects, such as the IEDC Business School at Bled, which helped him gain managerial experience. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics and is an active user of English and German.

Responsibilities: Accounting and Controlling Division, Asset and Liability Management Division, Group Tax Office, Economic Research Division and Data Governance Office.