PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Since 10/2011 Erste Group Bank AG, Vienna
Executive Director, Commercial Real Estate Finance

01/2011-09/2011 Investkredit Bank AG, Vienna
International Real Estate Finance
Head of Team International Clients

11/2007-12/2010 Immoconsult Leasinggesellschaft m.b.H., Vienna
Sales real-estate leasing in CEE / Country Account Manager:
- Acquisition and management of real-estate leasing transactions in CEE, contract negotiations, syndications
- Support / coaching of daughter companies in HR, HU and PL
- Trainings (concept-design and implementation) in the head-office in Vienna as well as in daughter companies in CEE

04/2002-10/2007 Bank Austria Creditanstalt Leasing GmbH, Vienna
Sales real-estate leasing in CEE / Account Manager:
- Acquisition and management of real-estate leasing transactions in CEE, contract negotiations, syndications
- Customer support of international and local real-estate customers, as well as of communities in CEE
- Support / coaching of daughter companies in CEE (in SLO, HR, BIH, SRB and BG)
- Market analysis and design of market strategies

07/2001-03/2002 Cap Gemini Ernst & Young GmbH, Vienna
Consultancy banks in CEE / “Manager”
Projects Erste Bank Budapest, Schöller Bank Vienna

06/2000-06/2001 Bank für Arbeit und Wirtschaft AG (BAWAG), Vienna
Corporate banking and project financing in CEE / Head of group:
- Acquisition and management of transactions in CEE, contract negotiations
- Customer support of local customers in SLO and HR
- Support / coaching of representative office Ljubljana
- Market analysis and design of market strategies
03/1996-05/2000 Central Wechsel- und Creditbank AG, Vienna
International structured trade finance in CEE / Account manager resp. Head of department (1999-2000):
- Acquisition and management of transactions, contract negotiations
- Market analysis and design of market strategies
10/1994-03/1996 Creditanstalt-Bankverein (CA), Vienna
1-year trainee program (emphasis on corporate banking as well as documentary business – L/Cs, Guarantees etc.), extensive praxis in the work-out dept.

05/1992-09/1994
Minstry of Foreign Affaires of the Republic of Slovenia, SLO-Ljubljana
Dept. for multilateral relations


EDUCATION

10/1994-09/1995 Creditanstalt-Bankverein (CA), Vienna
1-year trainee program (emphasis on corporate banking as well as on documentary business – L/Cs, Guarantees etc.)

10/1992-06/1994
Diplomatic Academy Vienna
2-years post-graduate study
Specialization in international economics, trade and finance
Receiver of a talent scholarship

10/1987-03/1992
University Ljubljana (SLO),
Faculty for Social Sciences
BA in political sciences, specialization in international relations

09/1982-06/1986
Secondary school for social sciences and languages,
Škofja Loka (SLO)

09/1974-06/1982
Primary school
Preska pri Medvodah (SLO)


LANGUAGES

Fluent: Slovenian (mother tongue), German, English, Croatian, Serbian

Proficiency:
French
(Certificate of the Diplomatic Academy Vienna, as well as of Institut d’Etudes Politiques Paris)

Basic knowledge:
Russian (Diplomatic Academy Vienna, Berlitz Vienna)
Spanish (Diplomatic Academy Vienna, Escuela Diplomatica Madrid)
Italian (Secondary school)