The Raiffeisen Bank International Group has appointed Zdenek Romanek as General Manager of Raiffeisen Bank Romania, following an international selection process, it is specified in a communiqué sent on Friday by Raiffeisen Bank Romania.
Zdenek Romanek will join the Raiffeisen Bank team starting with February 1, 2022 and will take over the mandate after the approval by the National Bank of Romania.
The current president and general manager of Raiffeisen Bank Romania, Steven van Groningen, a famous #resist protester, will thus end his 20-year term and will be the one to ensure the management of the bank during the transition period.
Zdenek Romanek is a banker with over 20 years of experience in financial services (banking, insurance, investment) and management consulting, with a wide international exposure, both in Central and Eastern Europe and in Western Europe, USA. or Asia (Singapore and Hong Kong).
“For the past six years, he has been a member of the Board of Directors and vice president of retail at Slovenska Sporitelna, where he also coordinated the bank’s digital transformation, and at the level of the Erste group he participated in the strategy and digital transformation and led bancassurance business.” in the press release of Raiffeisen Bank Romania.
In fact, Zdenek Romanek appreciated that banks can better serve their customers with the help of technology.
“I believe that banks can do much more for their customers if they use more and more on a large scale, in everyday life, the already existing technologies. Romania is an extremely interesting country and banking market and I look forward to working for Raiffeisen and to get involved in positioning the bank for the future together with my new colleagues “, Zdenek Romanek specified, quoted in the communiqué of Raiffeisen Bank Romania.
