10 most powerful businesswomen in Croatia named

10 most powerful businesswomen in Croatia (Photo credit: Lider)

ZAGREB, Dec 3 (Hina) – Atlantic Group Management Board member Lada Tedeschi Fiorio was named the most powerful businesswoman in Croatia for the second year in a row at the conference “Women in Business”, organised by the Lider business weekly.

Tedeschi Fiorio, who is Atlantic Group’s Vice-President for Strategy, Business Growth and Development, manages €740 million.

Second-ranked is Zagreb Holding multi-utility conglomerate Management Board chair Ana Stojic Deban while Croatian Bank for Reconstruction and Development (HBOR) Management Board chair Tamara Perko is third.

Raiffeisenbank Austria Management Board president Liana Keseric is fourth, Euroherc insurance company Management Board chair Ivana Bratanic is fifth, followed by Philip Morris Management Board chair Anita Letica, Hrvatski Telekom Management Board member Natasa Rapaic, and Coca-Cola HBC Adria general director Ruza Tomic Fontana.

KTC Management Board president Daliborka Kranjcic is the ninth most powerful businesswoman in Croatia and Wiener insurance company Management Board chair Jasminka Horvat Martinovic is tenth.

The Women in Business conference also presented a ranking of the 300 most powerful businesswomen in Croatia, who have managed €33.8 billion this year, a mild decrease compared to 2019, when they managed €36 billion. On the other hand, the 50 most powerful women management board chairs have managed €5.1 billion, an increase from €3.6 billion last year.

The list of the 300 most powerful businesswomen, compiled for the past 16 years by the Lider weekly and the Bisnode company, consists of 50 management board chairs, 150 management board members and 50 supervisory board presidents.

It ranks businesswomen according to total revenues the companies they run or supervise earned in the previous year.