Marinko Jagić new CEO of Lura Group

Marinko Jagić is the new CEO of Lura Group, a company owned by Luka Rajić, and new members of the Management Board have also been appointed, Vice President Vesna Žuvela and Management Board member Ivan Kliček.

According to Lura Group, Jagić comes to this position from AstraZeneca, one of the largest global pharmaceutical companies, where he served as the finance director for Southeast Europe. At AstraZeneca, he held other key positions since 2004, including a member of the Management Board of AstraZeneca Hungary and CEO of AstraZeneca Croatia. Before AstraZeneca, he worked for seven years in leading positions at Coca-Cola Adria, including as CEO. In addition to the aforementioned companies, he has also worked at Pfizer and HNB. Last year, he completed a professional development program on leadership in the pharmaceutical industry and biotechnology at Harvard, and he is currently preparing a doctorate at the University of Zagreb in the field of finance and marketing.
– I am happy that a person who will contribute to the further development of the companies with his experience and knowledge is coming to the leading position. We are pleased that through Lura Group we have found new concepts, optimized operations, and enabled more efficient management, which represents an important step in the further development of the Group’s members. Through the synergy of operations via the parent company, we have added value to investments and contributed to the further development of modern companies that will successfully compete in the domestic and European markets, said Luka Rajić to the media regarding the appointment of the new CEO.

Vice President Vesna Žuvela serves as the director of Lura voće, having transitioned from the position of director of development projects. She worked as the marketing director in the leading domestic dairy industry Dukat and in marketing management positions at Zagrebačka pivovara and Coca-Cola Adria. Ivan Kliček, who will take on the strategic role of a member of the Management Board of Lura Group, has been a long-time associate of Luka Rajić, serving as a member of the Management Board for the last three years at Lura Investments. He has held leading positions at Dukat as a member of the Management Board and finance director, as well as at the leading oil company INA as finance director. Lura Group, they say in this company, should serve as a parent organization to enable a more efficient organizational structure, maximize business efficiency, and create a synergistic effect by uniting the individual businesses of the Group’s members that are in a phase of intensive development. (E. F.)