Regina Ovesny-Straka, who has been the CEO of Slovenska sporitelna since 2001, is to become the new CEO of Salzburger Sparkasse, one of the largest savings banks in Austria.
Appointments
The new management board of Parex Banka took office on 5 December 2008. It is chaired by Nils Melngailis, a former executive director of Lattelecom, a leading communications company in the Baltics.
Renaissance Capital has taken on Yury Gruzglin as a managing director and head of the debt product group.
The extraordinary general meeting of shareholders and the board of directors of Alfa Bank have elected Johann Jonach as chairman of the board.
Alpha Associates has announced that Kurt Geiger, former head of financial institutions and private equity and chairman of the equity committee of the EBRD, will join the Zurich-based private equity fund firm as special adviser and chairman of its advisory board.
BNY Mellon Asset Management, the global asset management arm of The Bank of New York Mellon, has appointed Thomas Connolly as managing director, head of asset management for the Middle East.
EQT Partners, investment advisor to all EQT funds, has opened a new office in Warsaw with a team headed by Piotr Czapski.
On November 5, Swedbank appointed Michael Wolf to the position of CEO. Swedbank has subsidiaries in
Following a meeting of the board of directors of Abu Dhabi-listed Aabar Investments, HE Khadem Al Qubaisi, managing director of International Petroleum Investment Company (Ipic), has taken over the chairmanship of the board of Aabar Investments from outgoing chairman Abdulhamid Saeed
Sorouh Real Estate, one of the leading Abu Dhabi-based real estate developers, has made further appointments to its senior management team.
Shamil Bank, a leading Bahrain-based Islamic commercial and investment bank and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ithmaar Bank, has announced further staff promotions as part of its recent corporate restructuring.
Troika Dialog, Russia’s oldest and largest private investment bank, has appointed Kanako Sekine as managing director and COO of Troika Capital Partners, the bank’s private equity arm.