Execs who transformed largest company in Romania go to Turkey's Petrol Ofisi
Two of the leading Petrom top managers, who were in the
company's management team ever since the privatisation of the oil
and gas producer in 2004, have this year left to carry out the
reorganisation of OMV's latest acquisition: Petrol Ofisi.
"I won't be talking about Petrom today because it is already going
in the right direction, of integration. Let's talk about Turkey."
This was one of the opening messages conveyed by Wolfgang
Ruttenstorfer, CEO of OMV in London, at the latest media summit
organised by the Austrian oil group, Petrom's majority
shareholder.
In mid-October, OMV finalised the acquisition of Turkey's biggest
petrol station chain, Petrol Ofisi, for which it paid one billion
euros, securing a significant share of a market credited with the
biggest chances of growth in the next period.
Reinhard Pichler, 49, former CFO of Petrom, left his position last
week, being replaced by Daniel Turnheim, a member of the OMV group
since back in 2002. Pichler is not leaving the group, however, but
will go to Turkey, where he will fill the same position he has
occupied in Petrom since 2004.
At the beginning of this year Tamas Mayer, who used to be in charge
of Petrom's marketing operations, i.e. of the nearly 550
distribution stations, left the position to become Vice Chairman of
the Board of Directors of Petrol Ofisi. According to some sources,
Mayer will be running marketing operations within Petrol Ofisi, as
well.