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47 Corporate Governance<br />

PATRICK FROST — Born 1968, <strong>Swiss</strong> national<br />

Group Chief Investment Officer (Group CIO)<br />

Patrick Frost studied at the ETH in Zurich and the universities of<br />

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Cologne, Basel and Zurich, obtaining degrees in natural science<br />

(dipl. Natw. ETH), economics (Dr. rer. pol.) and law (lic. iur.). He began<br />

his professional career in the mid nineties as an analyst and subsequently<br />

as a Portfolio Manager in asset management for Winterthur<br />

Group. After two years in the USA as a Corporate Bond Manager, he<br />

was appointed Head of Fixed Income at Winterthur Group in 2001.<br />

In July 2006 Patrick Frost was appointed Group Chief Investment Officer (Group CIO) of the<br />

<strong>Swiss</strong> <strong>Life</strong> Group and Member of the Corporate Executive Board.<br />

Other appointments:<br />

– Stiftung Technopark Zürich, Member of the Board of Trustees<br />

– TECHNOPARK Management Ltd, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors<br />

– PostFinance, Member of the Board of Directors<br />

MANFRED BEHRENS — Born 1955, German national<br />

Chief Executive Officer AWD (CEO AWD)<br />

Chief Executive Officer Germany (CEO Germany) from 1 January 2013<br />

After graduating in law, Manfred Behrens initially worked as an attorney<br />

in a Hamburg-based law firm. In 1984 he moved to Hamburg Mannheimer<br />

AG, where he assumed various leading positions in the areas of<br />

legal protection and sales and went on to become regional manager. He<br />

joined Volksfürsorge Deutsche Lebensversicherungs-AG in May 1996<br />

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responsibility for sales and marketing. Manfred Behrens moved to <strong>Swiss</strong> <strong>Life</strong> in January 2004, where<br />

he held the position of Chief Executive Officer of <strong>Swiss</strong> <strong>Life</strong> in Germany (CEO Germany) until<br />

August 2008. He was appointed Co-Chief Executive Officer of AWD in September 2008. From<br />

April 2009 until December <strong>2012</strong> he was responsible for all activities of the AWD Group as Chairman<br />

of the Executive Board of AWD (CEO AWD). As part of the joining together of <strong>Swiss</strong> <strong>Life</strong> and AWD,<br />

Manfred Behrens was appointed Chief Executive Officer of <strong>Swiss</strong> <strong>Life</strong> in Germany (CEO Germany)<br />

from 1 January 2013.<br />

Manfred Behrens has been a Member of <strong>Swiss</strong> <strong>Life</strong>’s Corporate Executive Board since May 2008.<br />

Other appointments:<br />

– Aareal Bank, Wiesbaden, Member of the Supervisory Board<br />

– Commerzbank, Frankfurt am Main, Member of the Regional Advisory Committee North<br />

RESIGNATIONS<br />

There were no resignations from the Corporate Executive Board during the period under review.<br />

<strong>Swiss</strong> <strong>Life</strong> – <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2012</strong>

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