Management

Tomaž Kokot, General Manager Ad Interm

Tomaž Kokot was born in 1988. He graduated and obtained his master’s degree at the Faculty of Economics and Business in Maribor, where he has worked since 2010, engaged in scientific research with a focus on a comparative analysis of the prices of five hundred services in Slovenia and Italy. He is now continuing his studies in the doctoral programme of project management at Alma Mater Europaea ‒ ECM, where he is also a lecturer. Since 2016 he has been registered as a researcher at the Slovenian Research Agency.

He started his career as a sole proprietor and until 2013 he was executive director of a software development and business transformation company, which among other areas was active in planning data analyses, desktop applications and online solutions for large companies. In 2015, the newspaper Delo named him an entrepreneurial star in the scope of its project LifeSal.

In 2020 he became an internal auditor for ISO 9001:2015 and ISO/IEC 27001. Since 2020 he has been accredited as a supervisor in Slovenian Sovereign Holding.

He serves as Vice-President of the Supervisory Board of the company Borzen. In 2017 he was appointed chairman of the Šmarje pri Jelšah Retirement Home institute, and has previously also been the chairman of the Dom dr. Jožeta Potrča Poljčane institute.

The Management Board of Slovenian Sovereign Holding appointed him a member of the Supervisory Board of the Post of Slovenia, and at the founding meeting of the Supervisory Board on 17 March 2021 he was elected Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Post of Slovenia.

On 1 April 2021 he assumed the position of General Manager Ad Interim of the Post of Slovenia.

Andrej Rihter, MSc, Member of Management

Andrej Rihter was born in 1970. He graduated from the Faculty of Maritime Studies and Transport of the University of Ljubljana, where he then completed a Master’s degree while employed. He is currently enrolled postgraduate doctoral studies at the Faculty of Logistics of the University of Maribor.

His career began in the wood processing industry, in the development department at Gorenje GLIN. He started working at Pošta Slovenije, or PTT as it was called at the time, in 1993, first as a letter carrier, and later as a counter clerk and a delivery controller. He was the manager of a post office from 1998 to 2002, and then became the deputy head of the Ljubljana Business Unit. In 2008 he became a management consultant for logistics, and was soon appointed general manager of the Postal and Logistics Centre Ljubljana Business Unit. In 2009 he became the head of the Celje Business Unit, and in 2012 the management representative for economic affairs. He remained in this position until being appointed Deputy General Manager of Pošta Slovenije.

He is a member of the Manager Association and the Slovenian Logistics Association. He was appointed as a lecturer at the Faculty of Maritime Studies and Transport of the University of Ljubljana, and a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Logistics of the University of Maribor. He has participated in and contributed papers at numerous seminars in Slovenia and abroad. He has published several professional articles in the field of logistics.

His first five-year term of office as Deputy General Manager of Pošta Slovenije began on 12 August 2015.

Vinko Filipič, Member of Management

Vinko Filipič was born in 1971. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Business in Maribor and began his professional career in Pošta Slovenije in 1996. He started as postal operations specialist, continued as Head of the Marketing Section and later as the Marketing Division Director.

Apart from working at Pošta Slovenije, Vinko Filipič also gives lectures on Marketing at the Post, Economics and Telecommunications Vocational School in Ljubljana as well as on Marketing and Quality of Services at the Vocational College of Traffic and Transport in Maribor. He took part in several professional seminars both at home and abroad as participant, speaker and panellist. He is also the author of several professional articles in the field of marketing and fluently speaks English, German, Croatian and Serbian.

Vinko Filipič is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Pošta Slovenije’s subsidiary EPPS d.o.o. and a member of the Poštna banka Slovenije (PBS d.d. – Nova KBM d.d. Banking Group) Supevisory Board Committee for Business Cooperation Promotion within the Group. He is also a member of the Slovenian Direct Marketing Association and the Slovenian Directors' Association (SDA). In addition, he was also Chairman of the Stamp Advisory Committee appointed by the competent Minister.

Vinko Filipič was first appointed Member of Management of Pošta Slovenije for a period of five years, responsible for the marketing in March 2007. On 23 January 2012 he was re-elected early this year for another five-year term, beginning 28 march 2012.