ECB gave its consent to the appointment of Petr Brunclík as member of the Nova Ljubljanska Banka d.d., Ljubljana Management Board and Chief Operating Officer (COO). He will begin his five-year term of office after signing the contract, presumably in the next few days. He will be responsible for IT, operations and procurement departments, however, in the wake of the challenges posed by the new coronavirus and its consequences, he will focus primarily on digital and IT transformation of the NLB Group. Petr Brunclík has almost 20 years of diverse banking, business, customer service, process improvement, online, and technology experience. He majored in information technologies and applied informatics at the University of Economics in Prague. He began his career in 2001 as a Head of Promotion at the Mironet Group. From there he moved on to GE Money Bank (6/2003), which was later (in May 2016) rebranded to MONETA Money Bank. For the next 15 years he held various positions including IT Manager for eBusiness Applications (2/2007), and later Senior IT Manager for Distribution Channels (3/2009), then Shared Service Center Director (1/2012), and lastly Chief Shared Services Officer (COO) (6/2013), responsible amongst other fields for a call center, customer service, and business process support. Before joining NLB he gained extensive experience as a Chief IT and Operations Officer (CIO & COO) at the Home Credit Philippines (from June 2017).