Carpatica appoints 33 year-old deputy general manager

George Ciobanasu, 33, was appointed deputy general manager of
Banca Carpatica (Carpatica Bank), in charge of corporate banking.
He fills a new position, with new responsibilities, and does not
replace anyone. “The executive management team of Banca Comerciala
Carpatica will have a new member as of November this year, who
joins the current management structure,” announced the bank. The
new deputy manager of Carpatica has seven years’ experience in the
banking sector. A graduate of the Bucharest Academy of Economic
Studies and of the Romanian – Canadian MBA Programme in 2001, with
a specialisation in Finance, Ciobanasu worked in four banks in his
seven years of experience. In his first few years of activity in
the banking system, he was in charge of lending at Banca
Transilvania. In 2006, he moved to the position of regional
Bucharest manager at Bancpost, with the bank undergoing an
extensive restructuring process. In the autumn of 2007, he was
recruited by Portuguese-held Millennium Bank, a bank that had
recently entered the Romanian market, to run the SME department of
the corporate clients division. At Carpatica, his main management
goals are to “improve the bank’s competitiveness and develop the
corporate client segment.” Carpatica is a small bank, with a credit
portfolio worth 475 million euros in the first half of the year and
an almost 2 million-euro profit.