Who we are

Jozef Kausich has been the CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors of VÚB banka since March 1, 2023.

Before that, he worked for five years as the chairman of the board in the Slovenian Banka Intesa Sanpaolo. Before leaving for Slovenia, he was a member of the board of directors and director of corporate banking at VÚB bank for 12 years. In addition, he was also a member of the supervisory board in the subsidiaries VÚB bank, VÚB Leasing and VÚB Factoring. 

Jozef Kausich graduated from the University of Economics in Bratislava and gradually worked in several financial institutions. In Bank Austria – Creditanstalt Slovakia a.s. as the deputy head of the department of large customers, he began to focus on corporate banking and subsequently at HVB Bank Slovakia a.s. became the director of the department of corporate clients. 

On June 1, 2023, Gabriele Pace became a member of the board of directors and also the deputy general director of VÚB bank. In his position, he is primarily responsible for the control and support departments of the bank. He has been working at VÚB Bank since the beginning of 2023, until now he held the position of advisor to the Management Board. Before coming to Slovakia, he led ISP International Value Services in Croatia, which is an innovative and international IT service provider for the digital transformation of banking. He previously served as DCEO at Banca Intesa Beograd in Serbia. From 2004, he worked at Privredna banka Zagreb in Croatia, where he was a member of the bank's board of directors and later also DCEO. He has been working in the Intesa Sanpaolo banking group since 1987, where he started as an IT analyst in New York.

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.

On April 3, 2020, Marie Kovářová became a member of the Board of Directors of VÚB, a.s. and director responsible for Operations and IT.

Marie Kovářová studied mathematics at Charles University in Prague. She finished her studies with a doctorate. She worked for 6 years at McKinsey, mainly in Germany.

From In 2004, she worked in the management of Česká pojišťovna and Generali, where she managed Operations, IT, Purchasing and HR. She was sent to Romania for 4 years, where she managed the merger of 3 insurance companies from the position of CEO. She gained experience in finance by working in the Home Credit group, for which she worked in China as 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 - Chairman
• Elena Kohútiková – podpredsedníčka - Chairwoman
• Luca Leoncini Bartoli
• Marco Fabris
• Christian Schaack
• Peter Gutten - employee representative
• Dana Kondrótová - employee representative
• Andrea Fumačová - employee representative
• Draginja Duric