Blaž Brodnjak is CEO of NLB d.d., parent bank of the
NLB Group, the leading banking and financial group with headquarters and an
exclusive strategic interest in Southeast Europe.
He is a senior corporate banker with 25 years of
diverse experience at managerial positions on all levels of international
banking groups. Blaž has grown operationally into the business from the account
officer (sales) level, while he developed managerial skills via heading a
business subsegment (department), a segment (division) and the whole commercial
activity (board member) in Slovenian subsidiaries of international banking
groups (BACA, Raiffeisen and BAWAG P.S.K.). He has also acted as the chief investment
officer in the largest insurance company, headquartered in the SEE – Triglav
Group, to later function as the division head (B-1) for corporate banking in
the EUR 34 billion Hypo Alpe Adria banking group, focused on the SEE region. He
has joined NLB d.d. in 2012 as Member of the Management Board and has taken
over the CEO and CMO positions in July 2016 (latter until May of 2022).
Besides professional banking skills he has substantial
experience at corporate governance, having been acting on managerial or
supervisory positions in 17 sizeable banks, as well as 3 insurance companies,
one market leading asset management and one larger international production
company in altogether 8 countries. In addition, he was also active as a member
of the Supervisory board and chairman of the audit committee of the local
multinational, the production and service group Unior. In 2022, the Managers'
Association of Slovenia named him Manager of the Year.
Outside of business world Blaž enjoys spending time
with his family and working diligently in his family vineyard. He is also an
ardent advocate of sustainability either in business or in private life.