Treichl’s reinvention 2.0 at Erste Bank

Not many bank CEOs in Europe have been in post as long as Erste Group’s Andreas Treichl. To put it in perspective, an edition of the Wall Street Journal Europe that included a profile of him after his first eight months on the job also featured pieces on president Yeltsin’s choice of Sergei Kiriyenko as his successor, the potential implications of a single currency for Europe’s banking sectors, and the uphill struggle faced by the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary to get into the European Union.