Andreas Treichl
Andreas Treichl
Andreas Treichl studied economics at the University of Vienna. Right after achieving his master’s degree he moved to New York and started a career as a corporate banking officer with Chase Manhattan Bank. Over a time span of 18 years he worked for Chase in New York, Vienna, Brussels and Athens. In 1994 he joined Erste, a Viennese savings bank, and became its CEO in 1997. In the same year he took the savings bank public and over the course of ten years turned it into the largest retail bank in Central Europe, growing its client base from 600,000 to over 16 million in Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Croatia and other Western Balkan countries. In 2003 Andreas founded ERSTE Foundation, which, as the bank’s largest owner, acts as an NGO, utilising the dividend it receives for social and cultural projects in its region. In 2006 he founded “Die Zweite”, a savings bank for the poor, and expanded the foundation’s network in the CEE region. Aside from being active in social banking and financial literacy, the foundation owns one of the most prominent collections of post-communist Central European Art and actively supports a network for artists in Central and Eastern Europe. Andreas served as CEO of Erste Group until the end of 2019. Since then he has acted as chairman of ERSTE Foundation. Andreas serves as president of the European Forum Alpbach, as chair of Die Zweite, vice chair of the Vienna Opera, the Česká Foundation, the CEU’s Board of Trustees, the Foundation for Economic Literacy and other organisations.
