Our Story

We're a bank with American values and most of all an American way of doing things. We believe banking should be fair and simple. This is the way we do business. This is The American Way.

We're a bank with American values and most of all an American way of doing things. We believe banking should be fair and simple. This is the way we do business. This is „The American Way”

O motivație puternică și pasiune pentru ceea ce fac reprezintă o condiție de eligibilitate absolut necesară. Angajații noștri au la îndemână cele mai inovatoare instrumente disponibile in acest moment in sectorul financiar. Alătură-ni-te și vei vedea ce înseamnă cu adevărat The American Way!

We are FIRST BANK! After 18 yrs. of activity in Romania, Piraeus Bank was acquired by the J.C Flowers, a private equity leader, and it became First Bank. J.C. Flowers was established in 1998 and has invested more than 15 billion USD of capital in 52 portfolio companies, in 17 countries. Its activity is focused on global investments in the financial sector. First Bank has an American DNA, something you can see in the values we nourish, values that are American to the core: integrity, customer first, passion for sustainable results, teamwork, innovation, giving back. It is the way we chose to pursue. This is “The American way”.

Top Management

Dominic Bruynseels

President of the Executive Committee and member of the Board of Directors - coordinates the bank's entire business activity and manages the Control Functions of the Bank.

Dominic is one of the most experienced bankers in Romania with an international track record of 39 years in the banking industry both on developed and emerging markets. Has previously been Regional CEO West Africa for Standard Bank, CEO of Banca Comercială Română and for 27 Years worked with Barclays in the UK, Africa and the Middle East. Outside banking he is a past President of Private Investors in Africa, Vice-Chairman of the UK’s Overseas Development Institute, and BoD member of the Foreign Investors Council in Romania.

Dominic holds a Bachelor in Medieval History from Durham University, an MBA from Henley Management College, and a diploma in Financial Studies from the Chartered Institute of Bankers.

TOP MANAGEMENT

Cătălin Pârvu

First Vice-President and member of the Board of Directors - coordinates the bank's business and product development functions for Corporate, SME, Treasury and Capital Markets segments.

With a 28 years’ experience in the banking industry, Cătălin is one of the pioneers of the Romanian banking market with a significant contribution to the expansion of non-cash payments, fraud prevention and bancassurance concepts. Cătălin has previously been CEO of Piraeus Bank Romania, Vice - President and member of the Board of Directors of Țiriac-HVB Group, Vice-President of Banca Țiriac, member of the Managing Board of the Romanian Association of Banks.

Cătălin graduated the School of Automation with the University of Bucharest, has a degree in mathematics with the University of Bucharest and a postgraduate degree in Banking Management and Capital Markets with the Institute of Economic Studies.

TOP MANAGEMENT

Robert Hadley

Vice-President - coordinates the IT, Administrative & Digital Operations functions of the Bank.

Robert has extensive expertise in global financial operations strategy, digital development and major operational transformations. With an international track record of 30 years’ of experience in the banking industry and leadership of major technology, property and operations change programs in retail and commercial banking. Robert has previously held COO positions at Bank Al Jazira (Saudi Arabia), RBS in Romania and held a number of key positions within the global technology and operations teams of ABN AMRO Bank (The Netherlands and Singapore), Westpac Banking Corporation (Sydney) and Lloyds Bank (Sydney).

Robert has a MBA with Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia) and holds a Bachelor in Accounting, Finance & Systems from University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia).

TOP MANAGEMENT

Mădălina Otilia Teodorescu

Vice-President - coordinates the bank's business and product development functions for Retail, Micro & PFA segments and supervises the operations of the entire branch network of the bank.

Mădălina has extensive expertise in sales and retail markets with a 23 years’ experience in the Romanian banking industry. Mădălina has previously been Deputy General Manager - Retail, Micro & PFA of Piraeus Bank Romania, Executive Manager – Sales & Distribution of Raiffeisen Bank Romania, and held managerial positions in product development & sales in CitiBank România S.A. and Banca Comercială Română.

Mădălina is a graduate of the Romanian-American University, School of Finance & Banking. Since 1996, Mădălina has continuously developed her professional career by attending international training programs in Geneva, Milan, Paris, Prague, Vienna, London and Lausanne.

TOP MANAGEMENT

Viorel Mischie

Vice-President and member of the Board of Directors - coordinates the Financial, Data Management & Business Intelligence functions of the bank.

Viorel acts as a guardian of the bank’s financial position being one of the key-stakeholders involved in operational integration and due diligence processes. Has an expertise of 27 years in the financial & accounting sectors and contributed in developing and implementing key-systems of Romanian banking industry. Viorel has previously been Chief Financial Officer of Piraeus Bank Romania and have held a number of key positions related to financial controlling and transactional accounting within Banca Comercială Ion Țiriac.

Viorel is a graduate of Institute of Economic Studies Bucharest and has continuously developed his professional career by attending international training programs.

TOP MANAGEMENT

Nikolaos Chaniotis

Vice-President - coordinates recovery operations for Business and Retail segments, as well as Real Estate Owned function of the Bank.

Nikolaos has extensive expertise in managing and restructuring non-performing loans, corporate banking and credit risk. With an international track record of 25 years’ of experience years in the recovery banking and active management sectors, Nikolaos has previously been Deputy General Manager – of Piraeus Bank Romania, and held a number of key positions within Tirana Bank, Uniastrum Bank - Russia, Bank of Cyprus, Arab Bank PLC - Athens, Piraeus Bank, Credit Lyonnais Greece.

Nikolaos holds a Master's Degree in Business Management, with a major on Finance with the University of Toledo, Ohio, and has a Bachelor's Degree in Economic Sciences with the Slippery Rock University, Pennsylvania.