One of the country's largest banks is adding two female directors to its board. Specifically, the Supervisory Board of Unicredit Bank Austria appointed Svetlana Pansenko, who currently serves as Board Member for People and Culture at UniCredit Bank Hungary, as a new Board Member – also for People and Culture – as of February. 1, 2024. In this position, the 45-year-old succeeds Georgiana Lazar, who will become the new Head of People and Culture at HVB in Germany on February 1, 2024.

In addition, Helen Bovin will join the Board of Directors of UniCredit Bank Austria as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) on 1 March 2024. The 54-year-old succeeds Philipp Gamow, who will leave the company at his own request at the end of February.

CFO from our ranks

Teodora Petkova, Head of UniCredit Group in Central and Eastern Europe, said about this appointment: “I am very happy that we have been able to appoint a very dynamic and experienced director in Svetlana Pansenko, who was a member of the People and Culture Board of UniCredit.” Bank of Hungary since 2020 has been very successful and has previously managed to prove himself in various capacities as a Senior Director of Human Resources in Vienna for more than seven years since 2013” ​​and more: “With Helen Bovin, an outstanding leader moves from our ranks to the Board of Directors of the Bank UniCredit Bank Austria As CFO, Helen is one of the leading financial experts in the entire UniCredit Group, who has broad and deep knowledge in the field of strategic financial planning as well as many years of experience at UniCredit Bank Austria and has demonstrated her exceptional skills in the last two years as Head of Group Planning “And I was able to show great success.”

Petkova also thanked Georgiana Lazar and Filip Gamow for their achievements and wished them all the best in their new duties.

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