In this episode, I had the opportunity to speak with Zana Pekmek Head of Customer Intelligence Analytics Products Raiffeisen Bank International AG, and responsible for interoperability of the services with other data Tribes.
Zana is originally from Bosnia. After the war, she went to High School in the USA on a scholarship and finished College there. When she was younger Zana was more inclined towards art and creative fields, she was into acting and music.
After college, she worked for The World Bank on a project that introduced VAT Tax in Bosnia. This was the start of her journey into IT through data analysis. She has since worked for Raiffeisen in Bosnia, took a short break to work on another milestone project in Bosnia with Accenture before returning to Raiffeisen and relocating to Vienna in 2019 with her husband and 2 daughters.