A pioneer with perspective
Herbert Stepic, Deputy Chairman of Vienna-based Raiffeisen Zentralbank Osterreich (RZB) and CEO of Raiffeisen International, is widely regarded across the European banking industry as the chief architect of RZB’s aggressive expansion in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia. He speaks with Christopher Moore, emeafinance’s publisher, about his 30 plus year international career at the bank.
It takes a lot of energy and enthusiasm to be on the road six months a year and to simultaneously manage a bank that employs 58,365 and has over the past six years raised its profit before tax from €175mn to €1.238bn. But energy and enthusiasm, not to mention a jovial, down to earth, and affable personality are qualities that Herbert Stepic, CEO of Raiffeisen International Bank and deputy chairman of RZB, has in abundance.
