KB prezent. angl - Komerční banka

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Statutory Bodies
and Organisation Structure
Olivier Flourens
Member of the Board of Directors
Born 1 July 1959, resident in Prague.
Member of the Board of Directors since 1 February 2003. Graduate of the French Business School H.E.C. His career is
connected with Société Générale where he has been working since June 1984. Soon after joining SG he started to work in
General Inspection, first as an internal auditor and from June 1991 as one of its managers. From April 1995 to March 1998 he
was managing director of Société Générale Bank & Trust Luxembourg in charge of commercial and capital market activities.
In April 1998 he became chief executive of the SG branch in Milan and was responsible for all the activities of Investment
Banking in Italy. From July to October 2002 he was the head of the Société Générale Investment Banking commercial loans
portfolio management project. From October until the end of 2002 he was a member of the management team of the Risk
Department at SG Paris. Since January 2003 he has worked for Komerční banka and has been Head of Group Risk since
1 February 2003.
Peter Palečka
Member of the Board of Directors
Born 3 November 1959, resident in Černošice.
Member of the Board of Directors since 5 October 2001. Graduate of the University of Economics, Bratislava. From 1982 to
1988, he worked in foreign trade enterprises. Between 1989 and 1992, he worked at the Federal Ministry of Foreign Trade of the
Czech and Slovak Federative Republic. Between 1992 and 1994, he was the Permanent Representative of the Czech and Slovak
Federative Republic, and the Czech Republic respectively, to GATT, and from 1995 to 1998 he was the Permanent
Representative of the Czech Republic to the World Trade Organisation. He joined Komerční banka in 1998 as the Director for
Strategy. In October 1999 he was elected a member and in April 2000 Vice-Chairman of the Komerční banka’s Board of
Directors. On 5 October 2001 he resigned from this position and was re-elected on 5 October 2001 as a member and
Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors. At present, he is a member of the Board of Directors and Corporate Secretary.
Matúš Púll
Member of the Board of Directors
Born 25 June 1949, resident in Vrané nad Vltavou.
Member of the Board of Directors since 5 October 2001. Graduate of the University of Economics, Prague. In the period between
1972 – 1977, he worked for Fincom, a. s., Praha, a foreign trade company. Between 1977 and 1982, he worked at the Head Office
of the State Bank of Czechoslovakia. From 1982 to 1995 he managed the Société Générale office in Prague. From 1991 until he
was elected a member of the Komerční banka, a. s. Board of Directors, he was a member of the executive management of
Société Générale Komerční banka, later Société Générale banka and Société Générale, Prague branch, respectively.
Philippe Rucheton
Member of the Board of Directors
Born 9 September 1948, resident in Prague.
Member of the Board of Directors since 2 May 2002. Graduate of the High Military-Technical College Ecole Polytechnique,
Institut Supérieur des Affaires and of the Pahtheón Sorbonne University. From 1972 to 1980 he worked as an adviser and senior
manager in the banking operation of the BRED Group, from 1980 to 1988 in Louis-Dreyfus Bank. Between 1988 and 1995 he
was the CFO and Deputy CEO of SG Europe Computer Systemes, a SG subsidiary. From 1995 until he was elected a member of
the Komerční banka’s Board of Directors, he worked for Société Générale as Director of Assets and Liabilities Management.
Personnel changes in the Board of Directors during 2003 and 2004 prior to the publication of the Annual Report:
Patrice Cheroutre, Member of the Board of Directors and Executive Director, Risk Management (until 31 January 2003)