Annual Report Gorenje Group 2009

ANDREJ PRESEČNIK
Member of the Supervisory Board
He is a university graduate in agriculture. Since 2004 he has worked for one of the largest agricultural
cooperatives in Slovenia: Zgornjesavinjska kmetijska zadruga Mozirje. He has worked for the
cooperative since the year 1981. Before taking up the office of the manager he carried out duties and
functions ranging from the head of a consulting department to the head of a commercial department. In
the years 1990-1992 he was chairman of the Assembly of the Municipality of Mozirje, in the years
1994-2002 he was an active member of the municipal council of the Municipality Mozirje. In the years
1998-2003 he was a member of the council of RTV Slovenije. He performed functions in various bodies
of the cooperative association of Slovenia. He is a member of the management committee of
Kapitalska zadruga that is the majority owner of Deželna banka Slovenije and a member of the
supervisory board of Ljubljanske mlekarne.
GREGOR SLUGA M. SC.
Member of the Supervisory Board
Since 2003 he has worked as an adviser to the director of KD Group. He graduated from the Faculty of
Economics in Ljubljana and in 2000 he completed his M.Sc. thesis on management and organisation
(in the field of finance) also at the Faculty of Economics in Ljubljana. After a period of traineeship he
entered the service at the Ministry of Finance as a secretary of the then Securities and Stock Exchange
Commission. When the Securities Market Agency was established in 1994 he became a head of the
licensing department. He had various duties in the Agency until 2003, since 1999 he was an assistant
to the director and a head of the securities market sector. Since 2003 he has been an adviser to the
director in KD Group. He was a member of several supervisory boards, also in companies abroad.
IVAN ATELŠEK
Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board
He was a director of Gorenje from 1953 when he took over the management of the metal-working
company in the village of Gorenje. He carried out the function to the year 1980. Under his authority the
company initially assembled crushers. Later on it started producing solid fuel and electric cookers
under the name Tovarna štedilnikov Gorenje. In the year 1960 the development of Gorenje actually
started when the company moved to the temporary location in Velenje. In 1964 the company moved to
the present location. In that period Gorenje developed quickly and became one of the most successful
and largest European producers of household appliances, white goods, sanitary equipment, TV-sets,
and other household equipment. He was Vice-President of Ljubljanska banka from 1980 to 1982 when
he was elected Chairman of the management committee of the energy engineering community of
Slovenia. He retired in 1985. Until now he has remained in contact with the economy and Gorenje. He
has shared his considerable knowledge and experience with other economists. He received an award
of the Chamber of Commerce of Slovenia for notable economic achievements and the highest state
decorations. He was also a member of the first parliament of the Republic of Slovenia. In 1998 he was
elected in the supervisory board of the company for the first time.
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