Who we are

On 1 October 2013, Alexander Resch became CEO and Chairman of the Board of VUB Bank, acting as a member of its Board of Directors and Chief Risk Officer in 2008-2012, and formerly Deputy Chairman of Consumer Finance Holding, VÚB's subsidiary focused on consumer finance. He returned to Slovakia from Albania, where he led Intesa Sanpaolo Bank Albania.

Alexander Resch has been working for Intesa Sanpaolo all his career. He started at Bankhaus Löbbecke & Co (Berlin), then he was a member of the Intesa Sanpaolo Group, where he was responsible for planning, controlling and risk management. He came to Slovakia in 2004 to coordinate the acquisition of TatraCredit Group instalment sale companies, which were subsequently transformed into Consumer Finance Holding, a.s.

Alexander Resch studied economics at the University of Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan and has also Executive MBA degrees from the University of Minessota - Carlson School of Management and the Vienna University of Economics and Business.

Paolo Vivona became Member of the Board of VUB Bank on 24 October 2020. As Deputy CEO is mainly responsible for the Bank’s control and support departments. He previously held the position of CFO at VUB, a.s. and worked at the planning and control department of the international division of ISBD (International Subsidiary Banks Division) Intesa Sanpaolo subsidiaries, where he coordinated activities within the developing concept of CE HUB between VÚB bank and the Hungarian CIB Group. He has worked for Intesa Sanpaolo for more than 30 years, of which he has spent about 20 years in various positions at foreign branches of the Intesa Sanpaolo Group including China, Japan, Albania, Egypt and Hungary. He started out in retail as an area manager at Sanpaolo IMI, Milan and Turin. Gradually, he worked his way through several management positions in retail banking, finance, risk and credit management. He also worked at the Hungarian CIB Bank Z.r.t. as CFO and member of the Board of Directors. Paolo Vivona studied political science specialising in finance at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan.

Andrej Viceník has been working in VÚB since 2006.  He held the position of Director of Corporate Clients until 2010 and until November 2017 he ran the Small and Medium Enterprises Division.

Since December 2017, he has been a member of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of the Corporate Banking Division and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of VÚB Leasing a.s. Previously, he worked in the leading positions of the Czech Insurance Company, Zurich insurance company as well as HVB Bank Slovakia. He graduated from the Faculty of Business Management of the University of Economics in Bratislava and also broadened his education by getting the Executive MBA degree at Webster University.

In February 2012, the Supervisory Board of VÚB appointed Peter Magala as a member of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of the Risk Management Division.

After graduating from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Economics in Bratislava, he began building his career at Deloitte & Touche in Bratislava where he worked as a senior auditor in the field of International Accounting Standards and statutory audits, due diligence projects and other specific projects focused on bank clients.

Peter Magala gained further banking experience as a relationship manager at Citibank in Bratislava, where he worked in 2002 - 2004.  His key clients were from the area of consumer finance and insurance. Since 2004, he has continued his banking career at Tatrabanka/Raiffeisen International, particularly in the segment of international IT projects in Maribor (Slovenia) as a senior business analyst in charge of accounting.

In 2006, Peter Magala started working for VÚB. Firstly, as Head of Corporate Credit Control in Internal Audit, and since 2007, as Head of the Internal Control and Internal Audit of the Bank, responsible for internal audit of the entire VÚB Group.

Peter Magala has gained an internationally recognized qualification in Risk Management, the Financial Risk Manager (FRM), and is a member of the Certified Accountants’ Association (FCCA).

A member of the Board of Directors of VÚB Bank and the Chief Executive Officer of the Retail Banking Division became Martin Techman on 1 March 2015. He came to VÚB from Česká spořitelna, where he worked as a director of the distribution network.

Martin Techman is responsible for branch office and customer relationship management, bank products for natural persons and small businesses, payment cards and private banking.

He has been involved in financial services and banking since 1994.  He started at Multiservis, which was later acquired by GE Capital. He has gone through several key positions as consumer finance manager, product development manager, third party product manager, and mortgage credit manager. Between 2004 and 2005, he was Director of Product Development and Management at VÚB Bank, where he was responsible for managing retail products, a network of mortgage centres, and for external sales. Since 2005, he has worked as a Director of Business Development at Česká spořitelna and since 2011 has managed a network of branches in Czech Republic.

Martin Techman got an MBA degree at Nottingham Trent University in the field of Managerial Studies and “Senior Executive” Managers.

Marie Kovářová sa 3. apríla 2020 stala členkou Predstavenstva VÚB, a.s. a vrchnou riaditeľkou zodpovednou za úsek Prevádzka a IT.

Marie Kovářová vyštudovala matematiku na Karlovej univerzite v Prahe. Štúdium ukončila získaním doktorátu. Pracovala 6 rokov v spoločnosti McKinsey, prevažne v Nemecku.

Od r. 2004 pôsobila vo vedení spoločnosti Česká pojišťovna a poisťovňa Generali, kde viedla Prevádzku, IT, Nákup a HR. Na 4 roky bola vyslaná do Rumunska, kde z pozície CEO riadila fúziu 3 poisťovní. Skúsenosti z finančníctva získala pôsobením v skupine Home Credit, pre ktorú pracovala v Číne na pozícii COO.

On April 7, 2022, Darina Kmeťová became a member of the Board of VUB Bank and the CFO.

Darina Kmeťová joined VUB Bank in October 2019 as the director of the planning and control department. Prior to that, she worked as a finance and controlling leader in various sectors (automotive, media, marketing and banking) of foreign companies. He has many years of experience in senior financial positions, in the field of controlling and also in managerial positions with international coverage. She studied Tax and Tax Consulting at the University of Economics in Bratislava.

• Ignacio Jaquotot – predseda 
• Elena Kohútiková – podpredsedníčka 
• Luca Leoncini Bartoli
• Marco Fabris
• Christian Schaack
• Peter Gutten – zástupca zamestnancov
• Róbert Szabo – zástupca zamestnancov