Boris Marte heads the Erste HUB, the innovation center of Erste Group. Since 2016, he has been a member of the ERSTE Foundation board, to which he also belonged from 2008 to 2012. Before that, he was Managing Director of the ERSTE Foundation (since 2005) and Head of Corporate Sponsoring at Erste Group Bank (since 2001). Prior to joining Erste Group Bank, Boris Marte held various positions in politics: as a member of the Cabinet of the Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister of Science and Research (1991-1995) and on the staff of the City Council of Vienna (1997-2001). From 1998 to 2000 Boris Marte was responsible for the construction of the Holocaust Memorial in Vienna. In 1999 he published the book “The New Order of the Political – The Challenges of Democracy in the 21st Century” (Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / New York).