Unilever announces new leader for Hungary and Adria region

Regina Kuzmina has been appointed to the position of Managing Director Unilever Hungary & Adria, effective 1st August 2015. She will become the member of Leadership Team managing the Central Eastern Europe region.

Kuzmina brings extensive experience to the Hungarian business. She joined Unilever in Russia in 1997 and grew through the ranks in the organisation holding different roles in Marketing and media communications including the post of Brand Building Vice President Home and Personal Care.  Over the last 4 years she was leading the Customer Development Department in Russia/Ukraine/Belarus.

Kuzmina will assume responsibility to manage a region which consists of 4 countries: Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia-Hercegovina. „It is an honour for me to join and lead highly professional team here. The business results over the last years are speaking of themselves: great expertise, clear focus, determination, resilience, agility and entrepreneurship – this is what makes my new team a winning team. I would be delighted to add value by bringing fresh look, new perspectives, bolder ideas, to further challenging the team and business to the new heights. I do not come to fix the business; I come to make it shine even brighter…  ” – the new Managing Director said.

Regina Kuzmina studied at the Chemical-Pharmaceutical University of Saint Petersburg and earned MBA at KU Leuven. She is married with two children. Kuzmina and her family will move to Budapest in August.