Annual Report 2012 - Swiss Life

35 Corporate Governance
VOLKER BREMKAMP — Born 1944, German national
Member of the Board of Directors
Volker Bremkamp joined Albingia Versicherungs AG in Hamburg (a
subsidiary of Guardian Royal Ex change plc, London) in 1963, receiving
his qualifications as an insurance expert in 1965. Between 1969 and
1971 he was employed by various insurance companies and brokers in
London and Paris. He returned to Albingia Versicherungs AG, Ham­
bild burg, in 1971, serving as an Executive Director from 1978 to 1989 and,
from 1989 to 2000, as Chief Executive Officer of Albingia Lebensversicherungs AG and of Albingia
Versicherungs AG. Between 1995 and 1999 Volker Bremkamp was an Executive Director and, at the
same time, Group Executive Director, Continental Europe, of Guardian Royal Exchange plc, London,
which was taken over by the AXA Group in 1999. From 1999 to 2000 he held the position of Executive
Director of AXA Colonia Konzern AG, Cologne (holding company of AXA Germany). He has been
Managing Director of BMB Bremkamp Management- und Beteiligungs-GmbH since 2000.
Volker Bremkamp will be resigning from the Board of Directors after ten years of office with effect
from the General Meeting of Shareholders of Swiss Life Holding on 23 April 2013.
Other appointments:
– fischerAppelt AG, Hamburg, Chairman of the Supervisory Board
– HanseMerkur Krankenversicherungsgruppe, Hamburg, Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board
DAMIR FILIPOVIC — Born 1970, Swiss national
Member of the Board of Directors
Damir Filipovic studied mathematics at the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology in Zurich (ETHZ), where he qualified in 1995 and gained a
doctorate in financial mathematics in 2000. He then held research
posts at various universities abroad, including the US universities of
Stanford, Columbia and Princeton. He was appointed assistant professor
bild at the University of Princeton in 2002, and then from 2003 to 2004 he
worked on the development of the Swiss Solvency Test at the Federal Office of Private Insurance in
Switzerland. Damir Filipovic went on to hold the chair of financial and actuarial mathematics at the
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich from 2004 to 2007. From 2007 to 2009 he was head of the
Vienna Institute of Finance, a research institute affiliated to the University of Vienna and the Vienna
University of Economics and Business. In 2010 he was appointed Swissquote Chair in Quantitative
Finance and Swiss Finance Institute Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne
(EPFL).
Swiss Life – Annual Report 2012