Irena Weber

Executive Director, HUP, Croatia

Irena Weber, born in 1973, graduated from the Faculty of Economics in Zagreb.

She started her career in the financial market in 2000 in the investment bank CAIB d.d. (Creditanstald Investment Bank), where she worked until 2008.

She led and participated in numerous restructuring and privatization projects, mergers and takeovers in Croatia and the region.

In the middle of 2008, she moved to Hypo Alpe-Adria-Bank d.d. (today Addiko Bank d.d.), where she joins the team in charge of restructuring the bank and preparing the reprivatization process.

She led the Investment Banking Sector, the Business with Legal Entities Sector, and then the Retail Business Sector.

In 2016, she moved to the position of a member of the KentBank management Board, in charge of the Department of Business with large Enterprises, the Department of Business with Small and Medium Enterprises, the Department of Leal affairs and the IT Department. Introduces and implements Internet and mobile banking at KentBank.

In May 2017, she was hired in the Extraordinary Board of the Agrokor group as an executive director in charge of non-core assets.

Since March 2018, as a deputy of the extraordinary commissioner, she actively participated in the process of negotiation and implementation of the settlement, as well as negotiations with creditors of Agrokor.

In the Fortenova Group, upon its foundation, she held the position of Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer. She is leaving the Fortenova Group in October 2019.

Irena Weber comes to the position of CEO of HUP from the position of the a member of the board of Inspire investments, a company for managing private equity and alternative investments funds.

She is an authorized investment advisor and authorized intermediary insecurities trading- broker.

She is a regular participant and panelist of professional gatherings, seminars, and conferences, also has attended a number of internal and external trainings and educations.

She speaks English and French fluently.