Oana Petrescu, 41, BCR's current retail and private bankingexecutive vice-president, is the only Romanian-born top managerpart of the management team of the biggest domestic bank. Austria'sErste brought her in the autumn of 2006 on the position ofvice-president of operations shortly after it took effectivecontrol over the bank.
This was one of the first two changes operated at the level of theboard beside the appointment of Czech-born Martin Skopek at thehead of retail. Starting July 1, Oana Petrescu has been in chargeof retail, after Skopek was transferred to the Vienna board ofErste Group. "I regret we do not have more Romanians in BCR boardand I wish things change in time. Particularly for retail, it isvery difficult to find an experienced banker in Romania, but OanaPetrescu is a very good, efficient manager and I am confident shewill do some good work," comments Andreas Treichl, a CEO with ErsteGroup and BCR supervisory board chairman. "What's worse is thatthere are more very good Romanian bankers abroad than in Romania,but it is almost impossible to persuade them to come back,especially given how things have been going lately. I believe,though, that in 10 years at most many will be feeling motivated tocome and work at home," says Treichl.
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