34 <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> SCOR 2009 The Board of Directors From left to right: Antonio Borgès, Daniel Lebègue, Claude Tendil, Guillaume Sarkozy, Daniel Valot, Herbert Schimetschek, Denis Kessler, Peter Eckert, Allan Chapin, Daniel Havis, Carlo Acutis, Georges Chodron de Courcel, André Lévy-Lang, Gérard Andreck, Jean-Claude Seys, Luc Rougé.
diRectORs The Board of Directors is made up of persons with skills in the financial, insurance, accounting and industrial fields, the majority of whom are independent. The Board represents several different nationalities. Denis Kessler Denis Kessler, a French citizen, is a graduate of HEC business school (Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales) and holds a PhD in economics and advanced degrees in economics and social sciences. He was Chairman of the Fédération Française des Sociétés d’Assurance (FFSA), CEO and member of the Executive Committee of the AXA Group and Executive Vice-President of MEDEF (Mouvement des Entreprises de France). He joined the Group as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer on 4 November 2002. Carlo Acutis Carlo Acutis, an Italian citizen, is a Vice Chairman of Vittoria Assicurazioni S.p.A. He also serves as Chairman and member of the Boards of Directors of a number of companies. This specialist of the international insurance market was formerly Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Presidential Council of the CEA (Comité Européen des Assurances), and director of the Geneva Association. Gérard Andreck Gérard Andreck, a French citizen, has been Chairman of the MACIF Group since June 2006. Mr. Andreck has a deep interest in the mutual company and insurance sector, and he served as President of CJDES (Centre des Jeunes Dirigeants de l’Economie Sociale) from 1991 to 1993. In June 1997, he became Chief Executive Officer of MACIF. Gérard Andreck was instrumental in the development of the close partnership between Caisses d'Epargne, MACIF and MAIF in October 2004, and he was appointed Chairman of the Management Board of the holding company that formalised this partnership in November 2005. On 1 July 2008, he was appointed Chairman of the Groupement des Entreprises Mutuelles d’Assurances (GEMA) for three years. Antonio Borgès Antonio Borges, a Portuguese citizen, was Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs International in London. He is a member of the Board of Directors of CNP Assurances and a member of the Tax Committee of Banco Santander Portugal. Antonio Borges was also Dean of the INSEAD business school. He is now the Chairman of the Hedge Fund Standards Board and Chairman of the European Corporate Governance Institute – ECGI. Corporate Governance The Board of Directors Allan Chapin Before becoming a partner at Compass Advisers LLP in New York in June 2002, Allan Chapin, a U.S. citizen, was a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and Lazard Frères in New York for several years. He also serves on the boards of directors for the Pinault Printemps Redoute group (PPR) and a number of subsidiaries of SCOR in the U.S. Peter Eckert Peter Eckert, a Swiss citizen, has broad international experience in Risk Management, General and Life Insurance, Asset Management, Banking and IT. He has been a member of the Board of the Swiss Federal Banking Commission (EBK) since 1 July 2007 and Deputy Chairman of the Board of the new Swiss Financial Market Supervising Authority (FINMA) since 1 January 2008. He has been Chairman of the Clariden Leu bank since 1 January 2009. Daniel Havis Daniel Havis, a French citizen, joined the Mutuelle Assurance des Travailleurs Mutualistes (MATMUT) as a claims manager in 1980. He has been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MATMUT since 1994. He is also Chairman of Matmut Mutualité and Chairman of the Supervisory Boards of Matmut Assurances, Matmut Entreprises, Matmut-Vie and Matmut Protection Juridique. Since 8 December 2009, Daniel Havis has also been Vice Chairman of Sferen, the Mutual Insurance Group created with MACIF and MAIF, and was Chairman of GEMA until June 2008. He has also been Chairman of MutRé since 1 January 2009. Daniel Lebègue Daniel Lebègue, a French citizen, has been Chairman of the French National Treasury, Chief Executive Officer of BNP and of Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of CDC IXIS and Chairman of Eulia. He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of various companies and is the Chairman of the French Institute of Directors (Institut Français des Administrateurs – IFA). 35
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