Annual Report 2012 - Swiss Life

45 Corporate Governance
IVO FURRER — Born 1957, Swiss national
Chief Executive Officer Switzerland (CEO Switzerland)
Ivo Furrer graduated in law from the universities of Zurich and Fribourg
and earned his PhD with a thesis on employee benefits in Switzerland.
After joining Winterthur Life in 1982, he worked for several years in
international industrial insurance in Switzerland, the UK and the USA.
In 1998 he was appointed Chief Underwriting Officer at Winterthur
bild International. He subsequently moved to Credit Suisse Group, where he
was Head of e-Investment Services Europe and member of the management of Personal Financial
Services. Ivo Furrer began working for Zurich Financial Services in 2002, initially in Germany as head
of the international key account business, and in 2005 as a Member of the Global Corporate Executive
Committee. In 2007 he was appointed CEO Life Switzerland and Member of the Global Life Executive
Committee of Zurich Financial Services.
In September 2008 Ivo Furrer joined the Swiss Life Group as Member of the Corporate Executive
Board and Chief Executive Officer Switzerland (CEO Switzerland).
Other appointments:
– Sanitas Krankenversicherung and Sanitas Beteiligungen AG, Member of the Board of Trustees
and the Board of Directors
– Swiss Insurance Association (SIA), Chairman of the Life Insurance Committee
– German-Swiss Chamber of Commerce, Member of the Board
– Member of the Board of Directors of the Financial Market Authority (FMA) Liechtenstein
KLAUS G. LEYH — Born 1966, German national
Chief Executive Officer of Swiss Life, Germany Branch (CEO Germany)
Chief Operating Officer Germany (COO Germany) and deputy CEO Germany from 1 January 2013
After graduating with a degree in economics from the University of
Augsburg, Klaus G. Leyh worked for two years as a market researcher and
advisor in the consumer goods industry. In 1995 he changed to the insurance
sector, building up Generali’s Market Research department in
Munich. He subsequently held management positions in marketing,
bild product management and e-business at Generali Lloyd Versiche rung AG,
AXA Colonia Konzern and ARAG Lebens- und Krankenversicherung, and received a Master of Business
Research (MBR) from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. In 2001 Klaus G. Leyh joined
Swiss Life in Germany as the head of its e-commerce and e-business activities and was assigned responsibility
for distribution service, control and promotion in 2002. From January 2006 to September 2008
he held the position of Chief Market Officer and Member of the Executive Board of Swiss Life in Germany
with responsibility for the entire sales force, distribution management, service and control.
Klaus G. Leyh was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Swiss Life, Germany Branch (CEO Germany) on
1 October 2008. As part of the joining together of Swiss Life and AWD, Klaus G. Leyh was appointed
Chief Operating Officer and deputy Chief Executive Officer of Swiss Life in Germany (COO and
Dep. CEO) from 1 January 2013.
Klaus G. Leyh has been a member of Swiss Life’s Corporate Executive Board since October 2008.
Swiss Life – Annual Report 2012