Michaela Bauer
Member of the Board of Directors, Chief Technology
Innovation, Digital, Data and Operations

She graduated from Prague University of Economics and Business and obtained the CEMS Master of International Management.

Michaela began her career at the International Corporate Desk at KBC Group in 2002. Two years later she moved to the Loans Department at ČSOB, where she was gradually in charge of various agendas and already led a team of three hundred people responsible for loans for small and medium-sized companies before her short parental leave in 2011. In 2013, she moved to the business side in the position of Director of the SME Banking Segment, followed by the role of a member of the Board of Directors responsible for risk and finance at Hypotecni Banka, the CSOB mortgage company. In mid-2017, she returned to ČSOB and took charge of the transformation of the payment solutions and consumer financing area. Since July 2021, Michaela Bauer has been member of the Board of Directors of the ČSOB Group and her agenda includes IT, Innovations, Data, Digital, Daily banking and Operations and is responsible for accelerating the group’s digital transformation in the Czech Republic.