Green light for women managers in Komerční banka and Société Générale Group managements

Press release

1/4/2010
8:00 AM

Jitka Pantůčková, currently Executive Director for Operations at KB, is leaving KB to steer Ohrid Bank in Macedonia within the Société Générale Group.

As the main shareholder of Ohrid Bank in Macedonia, the Société Générale Group nominated Jitka Pantůčková, currently Executive Director for Operations at KB, to the position of Ohrid Bank's Chairwoman and CEO.

Jitka Pantůčková therefore becomes the second woman in the history of the Société Générale Group's Retail Banking outside France (BHFM) to hold the chairmanship of a Board of Directors. She will take up her position with effect from 1 January 2010.

Jitka Pantůčková is one of the most prominent women in Czech banking. Since 2002, she has chaired the Commission for Payment Traffic of the Czech Banking Association, and represented the CBA in the Payments Systems Committee of the European Banking Federation; she represents the Czech Republic in the European Payment Council and is a member of the financial sector working group of the National Commission for Euro Introduction. In 2004 she was voted The Woman Manager of the Year.

"The new position abroad is a great challenge for me and I look forward to it. I personally perceive it as not only appreciation of my work but also an expression of the respect enjoyed by Komerční banka within the Société Générale Group," comments Jitka Pantůčková on the new challenge.

Effective from that same date, Jana Švábenská, currently director of Trade and Export Finance, will take up the position of Executive Director for Operations at KB. At the same time, Jana Švábenskáwill become a member of Komerční banka's Directors Committee, and will use her long practical experience in Trade Finance there.

Jana Švábenská joined Komerční banka in 2000 following a long stint at ČSOB where she worked in documentary payments and export/import financing. She chairs Faktoring KB's Supervisory Board and has long served on the Executive Board of the ICC national committee, where she also chairs the Banking Technique and Practice commission.

The third major change in Komerční banka's management team is the appointment of Monika Truchlikováas Deputy Executive Director for Marketing a Business Development. In her new position, Monika Truchliková has therefore been capitalising on her almost ten years in bank marketing since 1 November 2009.

Monika Truchlíková graduated from the Faculty of Finance and Accounting of the University of Economics in Prague. She has been with Komerční banka since 2002, initially as head of marketing for retail banking responsible for segment management and product offering for individuals and small businesses.

Not least, we would also like to announce a newly created position, Advisor to the CEO for KB and SG Group Synergies. Jana Hanušová holds this position as from 1 January 2010.

Jana Hanušová joined Komerční banka in 1999. She initially worked in KB's marketing, and from 2004 at Essox in the position of head of marketing. Since 2007, she has served as head of marketing at Rusfinance Bank, Société Générale's consumer credit subsidiary in Russia. In her new position Jana Hanušová will therefore use her international experiences acquired within the Société Générale Group.

Komerční banka is one of the best run universal banks in Central Europe. It provides comprehensive services to clients in the areas of retail, corporate, and investment banking. The Komerční banka Group's 8,843 employees serve more than 2.7 milion clients, who can use an extensive network of 398 points of sale throughout the country. Komerční banka currently operates 682 ATMs and more than 972,000 of its clients use one of direct banking channels.

Komerční banka is part of the Société Générale Group, one of the largest banking groups in the euro zone (in terms of market capitalisation), whose 163,000 employees serve more than 30 million individual clients worldwide.