Management Board

Christoph Schoefboeck

Martin Hornig

Krešimir Barić

Katarina Kraljević

Katarina Kraljević has been a valued member of the EBC team since 2005. She was appointed as a Member of the Board on 1 August 2024, from the position of Director of Retail Business Development. Today, she is responsible for Retail, Retail Business Development, Direct Channels, and Digital Banking.

Katarina Kraljević is a Master of Economics and has many years of experience working in the banking industry. She started her career in 2001 as a financial advisor for retail at Bank Austria Creditanstalt d.d. Zagreb. From 2002 to 2005 she was a financial representative for SMEs in Centar banka d.d., after which she transferred to Erste Bank Croatia as a risk manager for micro enterprises, sole proprietors and retail clients. From 2008 to 2015 she was head of the Private and Micro Business Credit Risk Management Directorate, and from 2015 to 2017 she was Deputy Director of Retail. 

Hannes Frotzbacher

Hannes Frotzbacher joined Erste Group in 2010, after 14 years of working experience at Creditanstalt AG and Unicredit Bank Austria AG. In the period 2010-2012 he was responsible for Group Corporate Risk management, and for the past seven years he served as the Head of Group Credit Risk Management (CCO - Chief Credit Officer). From 2013 until the present, he also served as a Member of the EBC’s Supervisory Board. He holds a master’s degree in legal science and has professional education in finances, banking, and management skills development.

Responsibilities: Risk Management Division, Credit Risk Management Division, Non-financial Risk Division and Legal Divison.

Supervisory Board

  • Willibald Cernko, President of Supervisory Board
  • Georg Bucher, Vice President of Supervisory Board
  • Walburga Seidl, Member of Supervisory Board
  • Ingo Bleier, Member of Supervisory Board
  • Judit Ágnes Havasi, Member of Supervisory Board
  • Roland Klimesch, Member of Supervisory Board
  • Nina Begičević Ređep, Member of Supervisory Board