Annual Report 2012 - Swiss Life
Annual Report 2012 - Swiss Life
Annual Report 2012 - Swiss Life
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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 />
bild and, in 1998, was appointed Member of the Board of Management with<br />
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>