Erste Group Bank AG has announced the appointment of Martina Ernst as the head of human resources management at Erste Bank Oesterreich. She spent 16 years there, during seven of which she served as the Area Manager for Central Southern Europe. In 2007 she moved on to UniCredit Bank Austria, where she was head of HR Corporate Center Austria and CEE.

Thereafter she spent two years at the corporate headquarters in Milan, and returned to Vienna in 2013 to take over HR management for Bank Austria's retail department.