Blaž Brodnjak

Blaž Brodnjak is the current CEO at NLB. Blaž was previously the Head of Group Division Corporate & Public Finance at HYPO ALPE-ADRIA-BANK INTERNATIONAL AG from December 2010 to December 2012. In this role, they had management responsibility for the performance of the Corporate and Public Finance business segment on the level of the whole Hypo Alpe Adria Group. Blaž was also a member of the Supervisory Board of 4 (maximum 5) Subsidiary Banks.

Their primary responsibility was for group-wide (ex-YU, Austria and Italy) steering and performance of the Corporate and Public Finance segment (sales function), with main activities including: definition and implementation of segment strategy; group-wide recruitment (including substitutions) and development of key talents; budgeting/monitoring/reporting/steering; repositioning and revitalisation of corporate sales activities on target markets; definition and implementation of targets and KPIs on the individual and unit level, including local and group wide benchmarking; rationalisation/rightsizing of operational and personnel setup of the segment on group level; strict monitoring, proactive steering (due to liquidity and equity constraints) and optimisation of sales process/activities on portfolio and client level; strong focus on Watch Loan Management and prevention of NPL; active participation (voting Member) at Group Credit Committee and ALCO; product development; group-wide network and support function.

Blaž Brodnjak has an Executive MBA from IEDC - Bled School of Management and a Bachelor of Corporate Finance from the University of Ljubljana.