Impact Days 2024

5 – 7 Jun 2024 | Vienna, Austria

Peter Surek

CEO, Erste Social Finance Holding and Head of Social Banking, Erste Group

Erste Social Finance

Vienna, Austria

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I am Head of Social banking at Erste Group & CEO of Erste Social Finance Holding. member of InvestEU Fund Investment Committee and Impact Europe Board.

My organisation

Established with the objective of growing prosperity and providing access to financial services for all, Erste Social Finance Holding is a joint venture of Erste Group Bank AG and ERSTE Foundation. As a social enterprise, Erste Social Finance Holding aims for positive social impact and sustainable financial results. As stipulated in its Articles of Association, it does not distribute dividends but reinvests all generated profits into new social projects. Erste Social Finance Holding acts as a social finance investor and intermediary in the region of Central and Eastern Europe. Its main activities include investing in social business models which are financially sustainable, and developing and launching innovative social finance instruments.
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About me

Peter Surek is Head of Social banking at Erste Group and CEO of Erste Social Finance Holding. He is a retail and social banker with 20+ years of experience in different Central and Eastern European (CEE) markets. Since 2013 he leads at Erste Group Social Banking development and within the last years he has consistently implemented social banking in all Erste core markets, building thus Europe-wide unique platform for financial inclusion. In 2019 – 2021 he acted as member of European Microfinance Network’s Board of Directors. Since 2021 he is member of InvestEU Fund Investment Committee and since 2025 Board member of Impact Europe.

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