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 leading functions at Austrian companies.
Starting as a Project Manager at EPIC Goldscheider & Wurmböck Unternehmensberatungs GmbH 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., the 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 the 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 an independent Supervisory Board Member since she is not in business or employed by Valamar Riviera d.d.