Annual Report Gorenje Group 2009

DR. JOŽE ZAGOŽEN
Chairman of the supervisory board
is a Ph.D. in economics. He started his working career in the Gorenje business system. He was a
manager of the sector for organisation and informatics in the then SOZD Gorenje. As Vice-President of
the joint company Gorenje he participated in the rehabilitation operating committee of Gorenje. In 1991
he entered the service at the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Slovenia as a manager of the
logistic administration. Later on he worked for Tiskarna ljudske pravice and the company TER. In 1996
he was elected a member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia where he was also
Chairman of the Committee on the Economy. In the year 2000 he was the Minister of Economy in the
government of the Republic of Slovenia. He was Councillor in the Municipality of Ljubljana in the term
of office 1994-1998 and Chairman of the Committee for town planning, and Councillor also in the term
of office 2002-2006.
PETER JEŠOVNIK, M. SC.
Member of the Supervisory Board
In 1995 he graduated in international relations from the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University in
Ljubljana and completed his M.Sc. thesis on international economy in the Faculty of Economic in
Ljubljana. He has worked for the Office of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia for Development
and European Affairs. From 1997 to 2001 he worked as an assistant and senior lecturer for marketing
and macroeconomic environment at the Faculty of Management in Koper. In 2001 he started working
for the Chamber of Commerce of Slovenia where he managed the department for European affairs. He
was also an active member of the national Forum within the Convention for the EU legislation. In 2004
the European Commission appointed him a member of the Europe Team. In 2005 he was a deputy
director of the Office of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia for European Affairs and May 2007
he was appointed a manager of the Public Agency for Entrepreneurship and Foreign Investments
(JAPTI). He carried out this function to the beginning of the year 2009. Until 30 June 2009 he was also
Vice-Chairman of the supervisory board of NLB. In addition to this he was also a member of the
supervisory board of the Centre for European Perspective, a monitoring committee for Schengen
Facility and a supervisory board of Cohesion Fund.
MILAN PODPEČAN
Member of the Supervisory Board
He is a university graduate in economics. From 1962 to 1975 he worked for Metalka in Ljubljana, he
specialised in the field of commerce, finance and foreign trade. From 1975 to 1986 he managed the
trading - production company of Gorenje in Vienna and in 1982 he was also a member of the
rehabilitation management committee of Gorenje being in charge of the foreign trade network. From
1986 to 1994 he managed an investment company of Gorenje - namely Gorenje
Beteiligungsgesellschaft in Vienna. In the years 1994 and 1995 he ran an investment company of
Metalka, also in Vienna. He has considerable experience in the field of marketing, finance and
corporate governance since he was also a member of some of the supervisory boards and chairman of
the management committee of Slovenska odškodninska družba.
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