Administration

Supervisory Board of Raiffeisen Bank:

Herbert Stepic - Chairman of Supervisory Board
Dr. Herbert Stepic is Chairman of the Managing Board & CEO of Raiffeisen International Bank-Holding AG and a Vice-president of the Managing Board of Raiffeisen Zentralbank Österreich AG (RZB). He is a Ph.D. in Economics and Business Administration and has been working for RZB since 1973.
Heinz Wiedner - Member
Heinz Wiedner is COO & member of the Managing Board & of Raiffeisen International Bank-Holding AG and has 30 years of banking experience, having worked for Citibank in Vienna, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Miami, and London. Heinz Wiedner joined the RZB Group in 1993.
Martin Grull - Member
Martin Grüll is Chief Financial Officer of Raiffeisen International Bank-Holding since 2005; he graduated from Vienna University of Economics and joined Raiffeisen Group in 2005.
Aris Bogdaneris - Member
Aris Bogdaneris is a member of the Managing Board of Raiffeisen International Bank-Holding AG responsible for retail banking activity. He has a Masters Degree in International Economics and International Relations (John Hopkins University, Washington DC, USA) and graduated from University of South Florida, Tampa, USA; he has been working for RZB since October 2004.
Peter Lennkh - Member
Peter Lennkh is a member of the Managing Board of Raiffeisen International Bank-Holding A.G. He has a Master Degree in Economics and Business Administration, he graduated from the University of Economics in Vienna and joined Raiffeisen Group in 1992.
Anca Ileana Ioan - independent member
After 10 years of strategic consultancy and 3 years of management of Tiriac Group, currently, Anca Ileana Ioan manages Smart Management Consultants, which provides consulting and asset management services. Anca Ileana Ioan is Master of Business Administration, Canadian MBA program.

Management Board of Raiffeisen Bank:

Steven Cornelis van Groningen-Raiffeisen Bank President
Steven Cornelis van Groningen is an expert of the Central and Eastern Europe banking market and over the past 10 years he has been on top management positions in subsidiaries of Western-European banks in Romania, Hungary and Russia. He managed the start up of ABN Amro subsidiary in Bucharest. Beginning with June 2001 he became a Vice-President of Banca Agricola-Raiffeisen, and in February 2002 he was appointed President. After the merger of Banca Agricola-Raiffeisen with Raiffeisenbank (Romania) he became the President of the resulting bank, Raiffeisen Bank. He is a Dutch citizen and graduated from Leyden University in The Netherlands, majoring in Corporate Law.
Marinel Burduja-First Vice-President; Corporations Division
Marinel Burduja is a graduate of the Economic Studies Academy, International Economic Relations Department, and also of the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Law. He has undertaken numerous specialty courses in France, The Netherlands and South Korea. He has over 15 years of professional experience in the financial-banking sector and in previous years he held the positions of Vice-President of Bancorex, Senior Vice-President of Creditanstalt /Asset Management and Vice-President of ABN Amro Bank Romania. Mr. Burduja is also an associate professor of the Romanian Banking Institute.
James Daniel Stewart Jr.-Vice-President; Treasury and Capital Markets
With a 24 years’ experience in the New York financial and banking field, he worked for NatWest USA, Yamaichi International Inc.; before joining Raiffeisen Group, he was a American Treasury Department consultant for the Bulgarian Ministry of Finance and the National Bank of Bulgaria; studies of finance and international commercial relations at Lehigh - Bethlehem University in the USA; he is a Chartered Market Technician and joined Raiffeisen Bank in 2000.
Razvan Munteanu-Vice-President; Retail Division
Razvan Munteanu has an extensive experience in the financial-banking sector, due to his positions held in Romania and abroad. Before being a Vice-President of Retail for the bank he was a Vice-President Consumer for Citibank Romania, a Vice-President Cards for Citibank Hungary and a Regional Manager for Eastern Europe for Europay International. He studied at Bucharest Polytechnical University, and joined RBRO in 2005.
Carl Rossey Vice-president Operations & IT Division
Carl Rossey is an expert in managing banking redesign and development processes in Central & Eastern Europe. His experience is both-sided: as consulting specialist in financial services and IT and as top manager in banks operating in this region; He has an MBA degree at INSEAD – Fontainebleau, France, and a Master in industrial management, in electrotechnical engineering and information technology. He joined Raiffeisen Bank in 2005.
Vladimir Kalinov Vice-president Risk Division
With an expertise of over 10 years in banking lending and risk activities, he started his career with Raiffeisen in Bulgaria and in 2000 he joined Raiffeisen International Bank-Holding AG as a Head of Network Credit Management and Prokurist; he is a Bachelor of Commerce at the University of Delhi and graduated international marketing research courses with the Institute for Marketing and Management, New Delhi.

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