Ivo Furrer - Swiss Life CEO

Dr. Ivo Furrer Ph.D. resigned as Chief Executive Officer Switzerland Member of the Executive Board of Swiss Life Holding Ltd with effect from April 1 2017 which he served since September 1 2008. He joined Winterthur Life in 1982 initially working in group insurance marketing and later assuming various project management roles relating to strategy development and expansion of Winterthurs international insurance business in Europe Canada and the United States. In 1992 he relocated to the United States where he worked in underwriting. From 1994 to 1997 he held a number of management positions at Winterthur International in London before being appointed Chief Underwriting Officer of this business area. In 1999 he moved to Credit Suisse Group where he developed and implemented an internet bank in Luxembourg and was subsequently appointed Head of eInvestment Services Europe and member of the Personal Financial Services management. He began working for Zurich Financial Services in 2002 initially in Germany as Head of the international key account business and in 2005 as Member of the Global Corporationrationrate Executive Committee with responsibility for the development of key account and distribution management at a global level. In 2007 he was appointed Chief Executive Officer Life Switzerland and Member of the Global Life Executive Committee of Zurich Financial Services. He is Member of the Managing Board of Swiss Insurance Association Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Valiant Holding AG and Valiant Bank AG and Member of the Board at the GermanSwiss Chamber of Commerce as well as the Financial Market Authority Liechtenstein. He studied Law at Universitaet Zuerich and Universitaet Freiburg and obtained Doctorate in Philosophy degree with a thesis on employee benefits. since 2008.