He will take over the new position at BCR on June 1.
Serban “ended” his job at Volksbank after the institution sold a set of bad loans worth almost EUR500 million to a group of foreign investors made up of HIG Capital and AnaCap (investment funds) and Germany’s giant Deutsche Bank.
With an 18-year experience in the banking sector, Serban also headed the risk department of Garanti Bank for one year, after having been a risk management director for six months at the same bank. He also filled management positions in the risk departments of GE Money, Millennium Bank or OTP Bank.
Serban entered the banking sector as Financial Institutions Head at Citigroup (in 1996-2001) and worked for three years as market risk analyst at ING Bank in Canada and then was a M&A manager at CAIB Corporate Finance.
A graduate of the Electrical Engineering Faculty of the Polytechnic University of Bucharest (1992) and of the Law Faculty of the Bucharest University (1997), Serban was for eight years a member of CFA Romania, the association of investment professionals.
(English version by Catalina Apostoiu)