Gudrun Kuffner graduated from the University of Vienna, Department of Economics and subsequently obtained her Master of International  Affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, New York. She has extensive business experience in performing leading functions in Austrian companies. Starting as project manager at EPIC Goldscheider&Wurmböck UnternehmensberatungsgmbH in 1999, she was a partner at EPIC Financial Consulting GmbH, one of the leading investment and advisory companies in Central and Eastern Europe, from 2008 until 2017. Since then she has been Chief Internal Auditor at AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH. In the period 2005-2010, she was a member of the Supervisory Board of Valamar Group d.d., legal ancestor of Valamar Riviera d.d., and in the period 2014-2015, a member of the Supervisory Board of Valamar Riviera d.d. and the investment committee of same Company. She was also a member of the supervisory board and project committee of Austria Wirtschaftsservice GmbH from 2012-2017, as well as a member of the investment committee of AWS Mittelstandsfonds GmbH from 2014-2018. Gudrun Kuffner is proposed as an independent member of the Supervisory Board since she is not in business or employment with Valamar Riviera d.d. With her rich knowledge and expertise in the field of internal audit and finance, as well as a good knowledge of opportunities in the Company and in tourism, Ms. Kuffner will contribute to the work of the Supervisory Board in the current term, which will continue to be composed of top experts with the knowledge and skills necessary to successfully perform the function of the Supervisory Board in accordance with the relevant regulations and acts of the Company.