Management Board and Supervisory Board

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.

Martin Hornig graduated from Vienna's University of Economics and Business. After working five years in management consulting he joined Erste Group in 1998 where since then he held different executive functions.

From 2014 on he is Member of the Management Board and COO of Erste Steiermaerkische Bank.

Responsibilites: Banking Services Division, IT and Organization Division and Corporate Security Division.

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.

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 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.

Ingo Bleier, president of the Supervisory Board
Georg Bucher, deputy president of the Supervisory Board
Roland Klimesch, member of the Supervisory Board
Walburga Seidl, member of the Supervisory Board
Nina Begičević Ređep, member of the Supervisory Board
Judit Agnes Havasi, member of the Supervisory Board
Robert Schmidbauer, member of the Supervisory Board