Viktoria Kickinger

Viktoria Kickinger (born September 29, 1952 ) is an Austrian supervisory board member and entrepreneur .

Life

Viktoria Kickinger graduated from high school in Vienna in 1971. After working in the pharmaceutical industry for several years , she began studying journalism and ethnology at the University of Vienna in 1981 , which she completed in 1986. In 1987 she started working for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) as a volunteer in the science department. After six months, she switched to the family magazine WIR, where she specialized as an editor in health and social issues. From 1989 to 1991 she was a journalist in Club 2 ; then she took over the Ö3 traffic editorial office. In 1996/97 she headed the ORF's marketing department. In 1998 she switched to the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB), but in 2006 she applied for the post of ORF General Director.

2002-2004 headed Kickinger in the Austrian industrial holding the Department of Business Communication , then took over to 2009 in the Austrian Post , the Secretariat , and was responsible, among other corporate development and strategy, as well as national and international lobbying . She was significantly involved in the initial public offering of Austrian Post and was also involved in the content of the Third EU Postal Directive.

In 2005, Kickinger was elected to the supervisory board of Omnimedia . She has been on the Supervisory Board of Polytec Holding AG since 2006 .

In 2008 Viktoria Kickinger was appointed a member of the University Council of WU Vienna by the federal government . Viktoria Kickinger has been a court-sworn and certified expert for commercial advertising since 2008 . In 2009 Viktoria Kickinger became deputy chairwoman of the supervisory board of the Vienna State Opera , as well as a member of the supervisory board of the Vienna Burgtheater , the Vienna Volksoper and art for art. From April 2014 to January 2015, Kickinger was chairwoman of the supervisory board of the Volksoper Vienna.

Also in 2009 Kickinger became a member of the supervisory board of S&T , where she was elected chairman of the supervisory board on January 17, 2011. Since 2011 she has also been chairwoman of the advisory board of the T-Mobile environmental and sustainability fund .

In October 2009 she founded the INARA - Initiative Supervisory Boards Austria , a knowledge database for supervisory boards in German-speaking countries, which she sold on January 1, 2015. In 2010 she founded the representation of interests of Austrian supervisory boards (IVAR) and in 2013 the Director's Channel in Hamburg , an internet television channel for supervisory boards in Germany. In October 2016, the Directors Academy Hamburg was also founded in Hamburg , an online training academy for supervisory and administrative boards in Germany.

Kickinger was organized by the Austrian Federal Government on 1 March 2013 University Councilor of the Mozarteum University in Salzburg ordered and was of 26. March 2013 to February 2017 chairman of the University Council, now a member of the Executive Committee. In November 2017 she resigned as a member of the University Council.

In June 2016 she was nominated by the NEOS and the Greens as a joint candidate for the post of President of the Court of Auditors and, as one of the best placed, she was subjected to the parliamentary hearing.

In 2017, Kickinger founded the Directors Academy Financial Services GmbH.

Works

• Thanks for the crisis or the Gordian knot and Alexander the Great as crisis manager. Echomedia-Verlag Vienna, 2005. ISBN 3-901761-35-7
• Book presentation: "Supervisory Board - Requirements and Perspectives" / WKO-Fachverband UBIT
• "Professional education and training of the supervisory board in transition" / (BOARD, issue 2/2019, pages 66–67)
• "Training for supervisory boards: Licht ins DunkelKPMG" / Audit Committee Quarterly - THE MAGAZINE FOR CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
• "Wirecard and the consequences - further training for supervisory boards: (K) A topic!" / 4investors.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wiener Zeitung , July 30, 2006: Lindner-Lorenz duel for ORF chief position
2. ↑ Dr. Viktoria Kickinger is leaving Österreichische Post AG on April 1 , 2009, APA OTS, March 27, 2009, accessed on August 30, 2013.
3. ↑ Supervisory Board Polytec polytec-group.com, accessed on August 30, 2013.
4. ↑ S&T System Integration & Technology Distribution AG: Dr. Viktoria Kickinger elected chairwoman of the supervisory board of S&T adhoc.pressetext.com, accessed on August 30, 2013.
5. ^ Initiative Supervisory Boards Austria. ( Memento from February 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Short message in the Wirtschaftsblatt (AT), April 8, 2011
6. ↑ INARA: ADAC for supervisory board members - Career-Women.org
7. ^ Karlheinz Töchterle: Federal government nominates new university councils. Federal Ministry of Science and Research, February 19, 2013
8. ↑ INFORMATION SHEET of the Mozarteum University Salzburg. March 26, 2013
9. ↑ Mozarteum University of Salzburg Chair of the University Council Accessed September 4, 2013
10. ↑ orf.at: Rector search: Dispute at the University of Mozarteum . Article dated February 11, 2017, accessed February 11, 2017.
11. ↑ orf.at: Mozarteum scandal: appointment of rector failed again . Article dated November 23, 2017, accessed November 24, 2017.
12. ↑ derStandard.at - Court of Auditors: Greens and Neos nominate Kickinger for senior positions . Article dated June 3, 2016, accessed June 4, 2016.
13. ↑ diepresse.com: Viktoria Kickinger . Retrieved June 4, 2016.