BIO

CEO and Chief Retail Officer of Erste Group

He is an Austrian bank manager and has been a member of Erste Group Bank AG’s Management Board, with responsibility for retail banking, since January 2015.

He studied at the law faculty of the University of Vienna. After earning a doctorate in this field 1993, he worked as an assistant at the law faculty’s Institute of Constitutional and Administrative Law.

In 1996, he launched his banking career at Erste österreichische Spar-Casse, where he held a number of successive management functions, particularly in the areas of housing construction and real estate, as well as in handling the bank’s branch network. At the same time, Bosek continued to work as a lecturer in law at the University of Vienna between 1996 and 2005.

On 1 January 2015, he assumed the newly-created position of Chief Retail Officer on the management board of Erste Group Bank AG. In addition to overseeing the retail banking segment across Erste Group’s banking subsidiaries, this position also entails management responsibility for the banking group’s internal fintech Erste Hub and its digital innovation unit BeeOne, which are responsible for the development of “George”, Erste Group’s widely acknowledged digital banking platform.