Dana is Executive Director acting as Head of Special Exposure Management Network Units Department within Raiffeisen Bank International AG (RBI), headquartered in Vienna since 2016. She is leading a team of international workout specialists that manage large non-retail restructuring cases and portfolio strategies, steering the underlying processes within RBI.

After spending nearly 20 years working in loan workout, Dana knows what truly drives non-performing loan (NPL) reduction within Central and Eastern Europe and current challenges of the financial institutions within a highly volatile and business environment. She has been recently selected within experts of the European Commission NPL Advisory Group having as main mission support the implementation of the European action plan to tackle NPLs’ post pandemic.

In addition to her extensive practical experience, Dana is also specialist in turnaround and insolvency, being member of INSOL Europe, Turnaround Management Romania and UNPIR. Dana holds an EMBA in General Management from the University of Sheffield and graduated from the Academy of Economic Studies Bucharest. She is passionate learner and effectively engaged into digital transformation. Public professional speaker and a strong ambassador of diversity & inclusion.