Supervisory Board
Supervisory Board consists of nine member, it supervises business operations of the Group, and on issues in their domain Supervisory Board makes decisions based on the Rules of Procedure of the Supervisory Board.
Dubravko Štimac
Supervisory Board President
Dubravko Štimac was elected Podravka Supervisory Board President in February 2012. Deputy president to Podravka Supervisory Board he became in early 2012, and Supervisory Board member in 2006.
Member of Podravka
Remuneration Committee.
He started his professional career as independent sales clerk at Zagrebačka tvornica papira (Zagreb paper factory) and then continued as an independent officer in foreign trade at PBZ Investholding where he became the manager of the foreign trade sector. In January 2001 he became the project manager of the retirement reform at Privredna banka Zagreb, and since October 2001 he was the Management Board president of PBZ CROATIA osiguranje, the association for managing obligatory retirement fund. He graduated from the Faculty of Economy and Business in Zagreb in 1992, and two years later he received his MA, Organisation and Management course. He participated in the Securities Processing Training Program in New York, organized by the Bank of New York, and in the Fund Management at City University Business School in London.
Mato Crkvenac
Supervisory Board Deputy President
Mato Crkvenac was appointed Podravka Supervisory Board Deputy President in February 2012 by the Government Assets Management Agency (GAMA).
Member of Podravka
Audit Committee.
He started his professional career at the Republic Institute for Planning, and five years later he became sector director at the Republic Institute for Economic Movements and Economic Policy. In 1978 he became the general manager at the Republic Institute for Planning and also a member of the Executive Council of the Parliament of SRH, and in 1986 he became a representative and deputy chairman of the Parliament of SRH. From 2000 to 2004 he performed the duties of a finance minister in Croatian Government, and later was a representative at the Croatian Parliament. At the Faculty of Economy and Business in Zagreb he was an assistant and scientific assistant, and was elected senior lecturer. Four years later he was elected associate professor, and in 1991 he was elected as full professor. He graduated from the Faculty of Economy and Business, and received his MA from the Institute of Economic Sciences in Belgrade. He received his PhD from the Faculty of Economy and Business at the Zagreb University.
Ivana Matovina
Supervisory Board Member
Ivana Matovina was appointed Podravka Supervisory Board member in July 2012.
Member of Podravka Audit Committee.
Today she is a certified Croatian auditor and certified accountant of Great Britain. She started her professional career as accounting manager, and in 1997 she became a director of KPMG Croatia. Two years later she is a partner and director of Cinotti revizija and savjetovanje d.o.o. for auditing, internal auditing, accounting and business counseling and education. From 2011 she is a founder and director of Antares revizija and savjetovanje d.o.o. for auditing and counseling. She was a member of the Croatian Auditing Chamber Management Council, and today she is HANFA Council member and a member of the Committee for financial reporting standards, lecturer for the Croatian Auditing Chamber (Auditing class), and from 2008 she lectures Auditing class at the Zagreb School of Economics and Management. He graduated from the Faculty of Economy and Business at the Zagreb University, Accounting and Finance course.
Martinka Marđetko Vuković
Supervisory Board Member
Martina Marđetko Vuković was appointed Podravka Supervisory Board member in April 2011 by the Company Workers Council.
She started her professional career at Podravka in 1979 as an administrator, and later worked as planner-analyst. She performed her professional duties at the Economic center at Podravka, and later in Controlling. She is the president of Podravka Independent Union, Worker's council member ever since the first worker councils were formed in 1996, when she was the vice president. Today she holds a degree of safety engineer, additionally having graduated from the two-year School of Agriculture, and works as sector director adviser for occupational safety in Human Resources at Podravka.
Ivo Družić
Supervisory Board Member
Ivo Družić was appointed Podravka Supervisory Board Member in February 2012 by the Government Assets Management Agency (GAMA).
He is permanently employed at the Faculty of Economy and Business in Zagreb as a full time professor. He is the head of the scientific postgraduate study of the Economy and development at the Faculty of Economy and Business in Zagreb. He stayed in Brighton, England at the University of Sussex as a Visiting Fellow in 1990/91, and as Research Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh, USA in 1994. He was also a Visiting Professor in 1995 at the University of Beijing in China, and in 1997/98 at the University of Pittsburgh. He authored 2 book, co-authored 6 (2 of which he edited), 19 scientific works in magazines with international review, 10 works in proceedings from international scientific conventions and 18 scientific works in domestic magazines and proceedings. He received his MA in 1981 and his PhD in 1988 from the Faculty of Economy and Business in Zagreb.
Milan Stojanović
Supervisory Board Member
Milan Stojanović was elected Podravka Supervisory Board member in July 2012.
Member of Podravka
Remuneration Committee.
He filled his professional career with 35 years of work experience as director or manager in economy. In two terms he was also a representative in Croatian National Parliament, from 1990 – 1996. Retired economist, he was also appointed Supervisory Board president for Zlatna igla Siscia d.o.o. He also carried the duty of Management Board president for the Development and Employment Fund in the Republic of Croatia. He published numerous researches and works in the area of marketing and economy. Twice he received the title Manager of the year. He also holds an MA.
Petar Vlaić
Supervisory Board Member
Petar Vlaić was elected Podravka Supervisory Board member in September 2010.
Member of Podravka
Audit Committee and
President of the Remuneration Committee.
He started his professional career at the brokerage house Ilirika as a broker, and later becomes portfolio manager and trade manager. After moving to Zagreb he became the first fund manager in the Republic of Croatia in the first Croatian investment fund Kaptol Proinvest. Later on he works as a trade manager in IB Austria, upon which he transfers to the position of fund manager at the Central National Fund. In 2001 he became the Management Board president to Adriatic Invest for managing Mandatory Blue Retirement Fund. In late 2003 Erste MRF and Helios MRF are merged with the Blue Fund and the fund changes its name to Erste Blue Mandatory Pension Fund. During his work at the company for managing the privatization investment fund he was a member of several Supervisory Boards in Croatian companies. He graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in Ljubljana, after which he gained the title CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst), program organized by an American Association of Investment Professionals ICFA.
Dinko Novoselec
Supervisory Board Member
Dinko Novoselec was elected Podravka Supervisory Board Member in September 2010.
President of Podravka
Audit Committee.
He started his professional career at the Croatian National Bank on managing foreign reserves. In late 1998 he transfers to Zagrebačka banka as the head of the analytics department, and then to ZB Invest, the company for managing the investment funds as the Management Board member. Since 2001 he became a Management Board member of Allianz ZB d.o.o., the company that manages AZ obligatory pension fund, and in April 2003 he was appointed Management Board president of the Allianz ZB, the company for managing the obligatory pension fund. He graduated math at the Faculty of Science in Zagreb and in 2000 he received his CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) title, a program organized by an American Association of Investment Professionals ICFA.
Petar Miladin
Supervisory Board Member
Petar Miladin was elected Podravka Supervisory Board member in September 2010.
He was employed at the Law Faculty in Zagreb in 1997 as a junior assistant at the Department for Commercial Law and Companies Law. In December 1999 he became the assistant at the same department where he later worked as a senior assistant. He worked as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law in Zagreb since 2005 and since 2009 he was full professor. He published about twenty different scientific works in commercial law, companies law and banking law. Upon graduating from his studies, he worked as a trainee in the County and Commercial Court in Zagreb. He received his MA at the postgraduate scientific study in commercial law and companies law at the Law Faculty of the Zagreb University, and he defended his doctoral dissertation "Payment by remittance" in 2005 at the Faculty of Law at the Zagreb University, receiving his PhD in scientific field of law.