SCOR - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Director
- Member of the Board
- Member of the Nomination Committee
Chairman of the Risk Committee | Member of the Strategic Committee, Audit Committee, Nomination Committee and Crisis Management Committee
Adrien Couret, a French citizen, holds a degree from HEC business school (École des hautes études commerciales) and is a Fellow of the French Institute of Actuaries. Since 2008, he has held various executive roles as part of mutual insurance company Macif's management team, successively overseeing Strategy, Performance, Transformation and Innovation. He was named Chief Executive Officer of Macif in 2019. That same year, he became Vice-Chairman of the Association des assureurs mutualistes (AAM). In July 2020 and after having been a director since 2014, he took on the role of Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ofi Asset Management, an asset management subsidiary of the Macif group. Since January 2021, Adrien Couret has been Chief Executive Officer of Aéma Groupe, a new French mutual insurance group specializing in health protection, which was created following the merger of Aésio Mutuelle and Macif.
Job Titles:
- Investor Relations Manager
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- Investor Relations Manager
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Vice - Chairman of the Board of Directors / Chairman of the Sustainability Committee Member of the Strategic Committee, Audit Committee, the Risk Committee and the Crisis Management Committee
Augustin de Romanet, a French citizen, is a graduate of the Institut d'études politiques in Paris and a former student of the École nationale d'administration. He was previously Chief Executive Officer of Caisse des dépôts et consignations, between 2007 and 2012, and chaired the Fonds stratégique d'investissement between 2009 and 2012. Prior to that, he was Deputy Finance Director at Crédit Agricole S.A. and a member of the Executive Committee. Augustin de Romanet also served as Deputy Secretary General to the French President, between June 2005 and October 2006, and held positions in various ministerial offices. In particular, between 2002 and 2005, he was Chief of Staff to Alain Lambert, Minister Delegate for the Budget, Deputy Chief of Staff to Francis Mer, Minister for the Economy, Finance and Industry, Chief of Staff to Jean-Louis Borloo, Minister for Employment, Labor and Social Cohesion, and lastly, Deputy Chief of Staff to French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin. Awarded the Légion d'honneur in 2007, Augustin de Romanet has received a number of awards, notably "Capitalist of the Year" awarded by the Le Nouvel Économiste magazine in 2008 and "Financier of the Year" awarded by the Minister of the Economy in 2012. Augustin de Romanet has been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Aéroports de Paris since 2012 and Chairman of Paris Europlace since July 2018.
Job Titles:
- Investor Relations Coordinator
Job Titles:
- Director
- Member of the Board
Chairman of the Audit Committee | Member of the Strategic Committee, Risk Committee, Compensation Committee and Crisis Management Committee
Bruno Pfister, a Swiss citizen, lawyer registered with the Geneva Bar and an MBA graduate from UCLA Anderson School of Management, was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Rothschild & Co Bank AG from December 2014 to September 2019. He was Vice-Chairman of the Swiss Insurance Association, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Swiss Life AG group, a member of the Executive Committee of the Crédit Suisse Banking division and Chief Financial Officer and member of the Executive Board of LGT group AG.
Job Titles:
- Group General Secretary and Group Chief ESG Officer of SCOR Governance, Human Resources, Sustainability, Legal & Compliance and Communications & Public Affairs
Group General Secretary | Governance, Human Resources, Sustainability, Legal & Compliance and Communications
Claire Le Gall-Robinson, a French citizen, is a lawyer admitted to the Paris and New York Bars and a graduate of Harvard Law School (Master of Laws) and the Paris II- Panthéon Assas University (Corporate and Tax law, Major de promotion). She practiced for more than 17 years in leading U.S. law firms Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. Prior to joining SCOR in 2016 as Group General Secretary, she was a partner of the UK law firm Gowling WLG. She has taught at the Sciences Po Law School since 2010. She has authored articles on various topics relating to corporate law and co-authored a book on commercial law published by Editions Dalloz. In March 2021, she was appointed to SCOR's Group Executive Committee. In this capacity, she is responsible for all Governance, Legal and Compliance matters across the Group. She is also in charge of the Group's Sustainability strategy, Human Resources and Communications.
Job Titles:
- Director / Member of the Strategic Committee, Compensation Committee, Nomination Committee and Crisis Management Committee
Claude Tendil, a French citizen, began his career at the Union des Assurances de Paris (UAP) in 1972. He joined the Drouot group in 1980 as Chief Operating Officer. He was promoted in 1987 to Chief Executive Officer, before being appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Présence Assurances, a subsidiary of the AXA group. He was appointed director and Chief Executive Officer of AXA-Midi Assurances in 1989 and served as Chief Executive Officer of AXA from 1991 to 2000, then Vice-Chairman of the Management Board of the AXA group until November 2001. During the same period, he was also Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the AXA group's French insurance and assistance companies. Claude Tendil was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Generali group in France from April 2002 until October 2013, when he became the Chairman of the Board of Directors, holding this position until June 2016.
Job Titles:
- Group Chief Operating Officer
Claudia Dill, a Swiss citizen, studied economics at the University of St. Gallen, holds an MBA from the University of Rochester/Bern, and completed the Advanced Management Program of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. From 1999 to 2020, she worked for the Zurich Insurance Group in a range of managerial positions in Zurich, New York and São Paulo, including as CFO for internal reinsurance and the reinsurance run-off unit, CFO for the European business and COO for the property and casualty business globally. Most recently, she was the Chief Executive Officer for the Latin American business, also acting as a member of the Group Executive Committee. Before working for Zurich, Claudia Dill held a variety of specialist and management functions at Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank, and Coopers and Lybrand. In the last few years Claudia focused on non-executive mandates in publicly listed and private companies in banking and insurance.
Dana Cullen is a Senior Associate based in London. Dana has a background in actuarial pricing and epidemiology, having previously worked for SCOR Global Life, and focuses on the development and execution of Insurtech MGA/carrier partnerships and investments.
Fabian Uffer, a Swiss citizen, started his career in 2003 as a life actuary in the insurance industry at Allianz Suisse. Following this, he worked at a startup company named CelsiusPro and developed a weather derivative pricing engine. In 2009 Fabian Uffer joined SCOR in the P&C Risk Management department. He then transitioned to Group Financial Modelling and Risk Analysis, where he held various positions including Head of Risk Modelling. In 2021 he was appointed Chief Risk Officer. Fabian studied at the University of Waterloo and holds a Masters in mathematics from the ETH Zürich. He is a fully qualified actuary of the Swiss Association of Actuaries.
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Board of Directors
- Chairman of the Board of Directors / Chairman of the Strategic Committee and Crisis Management Committee Member of the Audit Committee and Risk Committee
Fabrice Brégier, a French citizen, is a graduate of École polytechnique and a Chief Engineer of the Corps des mines. He began his career at the DRIRE Alsace (Ministry of Industry and Trade) before being appointed Sub-Director of Economic, International and Financial Affairs at the Ministry of Agriculture (Directorate-General for Food) in 1989. After serving as an Advisor to several French Ministers from 1989 to 1993, Fabrice Brégier was appointed Chairman of Franco-German joint ventures at Matra Défense, Director of Standoff activities at Matra BAe Dynamics, and then Chief Executive Officer of MBD/MBDA. Before becoming a member of the Executive Committee of Airbus in 2005, he was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Eurocopter from 2003 to 2005. Fabrice Brégier has twenty years of experience in aerospace and defense. He has spent a large part of his professional career at Airbus Group, holding the position of Airbus COO between 2006 and 2012, then Airbus President and Chief Executive Officer between 2012 and 2017, and finally COO of Airbus and Chairman of Airbus Commercial Aircraft between 2017 and 2018. Fabrice Brégier has been Chairman of Palantir France since October 2018.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Member of the Compensation Committee
Chair of the Compensation Committee | Member of the Strategic Committee, Risk Committee, Nomination Committee, Sustainability Committee and Crisis Management Committee
Fields Wicker-Miurin, an American and British citizen, studied in France at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris, in the United States and Italy. She graduated from the University of Virginia (BA) and the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University (MA).
Fields Wicker-Miurin began her career in banking, before joining Strategic Planning Associates (now Oliver Wyman Consulting) as a senior partner where she was the main advisor to Lloyd's of London. In 1994, she became Chief Financial Officer and Head of Strategy of the London Stock Exchange, where she led both the strategic and structural aspects of its complete restructuring. She was a member of the Nasdaq Technology Advisory Council and advised the European Parliament on financial markets harmonization. In 2002, she was one of the founders of Leaders' Quest, a social enterprise that works with leaders from all sectors and across the globe who want to make a responsible, positive difference through their leadership. In 2007 she received an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) and in 2011 she was appointed a Fellow of King's College London. She is also a director of BNP Paribas, Senior Independent Director of Aquis Exchange Plc and is Vice-Chair of the Royal College of Art in London.
Job Titles:
- Deputy Chief Executive Officer
- Group Chief Financial Officer
François de Varenne, a French citizen, is a graduate of the École Polytechnique and a civil engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées. He holds a PhD in finance and graduated as an actuary from the Institut de Science Financière et d'Assurances (ISFA). François de Varenne joined the Fédération Française des Sociétés d'Assurances (FFSA) in 1993 as Manager of Economic and Financial Affairs. In London, beginning in 1998, he served successively as Insurance Strategist with Lehman Brothers, Vice-President for asset management solutions, and structured transactions specialist in insurance and reinsurance companies at Merrill Lynch and then at Deutsche Bank. In 2003, he became Managing Partner of Gimar Finance & Cie. He joined SCOR in 2005 as Director of Corporate Finance and Asset Management. On September 3, 2007, he was named Group Chief Operating Officer and joined the Executive Committee. On October 29, 2008, François de Varenne was appointed Chief Executive Officer of SCOR Global Investments. In September 2021, he began oversight of an enlarged area of leadership including Investments, Technology, Budget, Transformation and Group Corporate Finance. From January 26, 2023, to April 30, 2023, he was Interim CEO of SCOR.
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer of SCOR Life & Health
Frieder Knüpling, a German citizen, has been a member of SCOR's Group Executive Committee since 2010, serving first as Deputy CEO of SCOR Global Life, then as Deputy Group Chief Risk Officer and finally as Group Chief Risk Officer. Before this, he held various actuarial, risk and finance roles at SCOR, Revios and Gerling Global Re. He holds academic degrees in Mathematics and Physics, and a PhD in Economics. He is a fellow of the Deutsche Aktuarvereinigung (DAV).
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer of SCOR Property & Casualty
Jean-Paul Conoscente, an American and French citizen, is a graduate of the University of California Berkeley (Master of Science in Structural Engineering) and the Ecole des Travaux Publics, Paris (Engineering Diploma in Civil Engineering). He started his career in earthquake engineering in California and then in CAT Modeling as the European head of the Modeling firm EQECAT. He subsequently held several senior positions with AON Benfield as a reinsurance broker in London and Paris, and then with AXA Re in Paris as the Global Head of Property. In 2008, he joined SCOR in New York as Chief Underwriting Officer for the Americas for SCOR Global P&C; he helped transform SCOR's team and portfolio in the Americas before taking on the role of CEO of SCOR's P&C U.S. Operations in 2016. Following SCOR Global P&C's restructuring in September 2018, Jean-Paul Conoscente became its CEO of Reinsurance globally.
Kathryn Byron is an Associate based in New York. Kathryn has a background in investment banking, corporate development, and venture capital across technology, fintech, health tech, climate, and media & entertainment.
Job Titles:
- Head of Hong Kong and Taiwan at SCOR Life & Health in the Hong Kong Office
Kendall Miller Crocker is the Deputy Head of SCOR Ventures, based in New York. Kendall was previously an executive at an insurtech startup, and has a background in management consulting and corporate innovation for global clients.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Member of the Compensation Committee
- Director Representing Employees / Member of the Compensation Committee
Marc Büker, a French and Turkish citizen, graduated from the University of Paris I - Sorbonne, in International Business Law. He began his career in journalism and launched the first private radio station in Turkey in 1992, then the country's first private television company forming a group he sold in 2002. He joined SCOR in 2002, initially working in the P&C Treaty Department as an underwriter for markets such as North Africa, South Africa, the Middle East and the Gulf countries. He is currently Market Manager for the Southern Mediterranean, North Africa and French-speaking Africa regions. Within the Company, he initiated the SCOR classical musical project, which involves the organization of concerts and the detection of young talents.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Director / Member of the Strategic Committee, Audit Committee and Sustainability Committee
Martine Gerow, a French and American citizen, is a graduate of HEC business school (École des hautes études commerciales) and holds an MBA from Columbia University-Graduate School of Business in New York. She is currently the Chief Financial Officer of American Express Global Business Travel and previously held several positions in the finance departments of Carlson Wagonlit Travel, Solocal and Campofrio.
Job Titles:
- America 's Hub General Counsel and Corporate Secretary in the New York Office
Job Titles:
- Director / Member of the Strategic Committee, Audit Committee, Risk Committee and Sustainability Committee
Natacha Valla, a French citizen, is an economist, and is currently Dean of the School of Management and Innovation at Sciences Po Paris.
She began her career at the European Central Bank (2001-2005) and then worked at the Banque de France (2005-2008) before joining Goldman Sachs as Executive Director (2008-2013). She was then Deputy Director of CEPII (2014-2016), a think tank in international economics, before joining the European Investment Bank (2016-2018) in charge of Economic Policy and Economic Strategy. From 2018 to May 2020, she was Deputy CEO for Monetary Policy at the European Central Bank. She has been a member of France's Economic Commission of the Nation, of the Scientific Committee of the ACPR and of the Council of Economic Analysis (Conseil d'analyse économique, CAE). She received her PhD from the European University Institute in Florence and is the author of numerous books and articles in monetary and international economics.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Director / Member of the Strategic Committee, Audit Committee, Compensation Committee and Sustainability Committee
Patricia Lacoste, a French citizen, is a graduate of the French École nationale de la statistique et de l'administration économique (ENSAE) and holds a Master's degree in Econometrics. She began her career in 1985 as a statistical research engineer within the consulting firm COREF. She then joined the SNCF in 1992 where she successively held the positions of Project Manager for the Socrate reservation system, Director of Distribution, Director of Traveler Sales, Director of the Paris-Est Region in charge of the preparation and launch of the TGV Est Européen, Director of Senior Management in the Human Resources Division, and then Director of Customer Relations. In 2012, she joined the Prévoir group as Chief Executive Officer and since 2013, has held the position of Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Société Centrale Prévoir and its subsidiary Prévoir-Vie.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Director Representing Employees / Member of the Sustainability Committee
- Member of the Sustainability Committee
Pietro Santoro, a German and Italian citizen, began his career at Wacker Chemie AG in the financial accounting and management control department after finishing his apprenticeship as an industrial sales clerk. He joined SCOR in 2002 as a purchaser (General Services Manager) in the General Services Department. Since 2013, he has been a member of the SCOR Group's Common European Companies Committee (CCSE) and since 2014, a member of the German Works Council of which he was elected Chairman in 2019.
Job Titles:
- Deputy CEO of SCOR Life & Health
Redmond Murphy, an Irish citizen, is a qualified actuary and CFA charter holder. Redmond has a BSc in Mathematics and Statistics from University College Cork, Ireland, and an MSc in Applied Statistics from the University of Oxford. He joined SCOR in 2014 as the CFO of SCOR Global Life Reinsurance Ireland. Redmond has held a number of senior roles within SCOR for Life & Health and Finance. In his most recent role as Deputy Group CFO and Group Head of Business Performance, he was responsible for the Group's financial planning and analysis, for capital, liquidity and performance management, and for the management of SCOR's activities in Ireland. Prior to this, Redmond was an integral part of the Life & Health Leadership Team, in charge of Business Performance, including Business Acceptance, Finance and Actuarial and oversight of SCOR's Irish operations.
Job Titles:
- Investor Relations Manager
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- Chief Executive Officer
- Member of the Board
- Director / Member of the Strategic Committee
Thierry Léger, a dual French and Swiss citizen, holds a Master's degree in Civil Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich) and an Executive MBA from the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. He began his career in the civil construction industry before joining Swiss Re as an engineering underwriter in 1997. In 2001 he moved to Swiss Re New Markets, providing non-traditional (or alternative) risk transfer solutions to insurance clients. Between 2003 and 2005 he was a member of the executive team in France as leader of the sales team. From 2006, Thierry Léger assumed increasing responsibility for Swiss Re's largest clients, ultimately becoming the Head of the newly-created Globals Division in 2010 and a member of the then existing Group Management Board. In 2013, Thierry Léger became Head of Life & Health Products Reinsurance. As of January 2016, he was appointed Chief Executive Officer Life Capital and member of the Swiss Re Executive Committee. In September 2020, he assumed the role of Group Chief Underwriting Officer. He joined SCOR as Chief Executive Officer on May 1, 2023. Thierry Léger is married and is the father of two young adults.
Job Titles:
- Head of Investor Relations
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- Member of the Nomination Committee
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- Director
- Member of the Board
- Member of the Nomination Committee
Chair of the Nomination Committee | Member of the Strategic Committee, Risk Committee, Compensation Committee, Sustainability Committee and Crisis Management Committee
Vanessa Marquette, a Belgian citizen, holds a law degree and an economic law degree from the Université Libre de Bruxelles. She also studied law at Davis University and Berkeley University and she holds an LLM degree from the University of Michigan Law School. She has practiced as a lawyer registered with the Brussels Bar since 1995, and specializes in banking law and financial law. She also has particular expertise in the areas of corporate law, insolvency law and security interests and private international law. She has taught international financial law at the Université Libre de Bruxelles since 2004 and is the author of numerous publications on banking and financial law.
She has been a partner in the banking & finance department of the law firm Loyens & Loeff since March 2020, having been a partner at the business law firm Simont Braun from 2005 until February 2020 and having practiced law at the Brussels offices of Stibbe Simont Monahan Duhot and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Vanessa Marquette was an independent director of Erasme Hospital from 2017 until 2021.
Will Bird is a Principal based in Chicago. Will focuses on investment & partnership opportunities in the Americas. His previous experience includes corporate venture capital and strategy at a leading U.S. personal lines insurer.
Will Thorne is the Head of SCOR Ventures. Will has a background in both (re)insurance underwriting and start-ups, and previously established SCOR's Innovation team. He is a frequent advisor & angel investor in his personal capacity and was the founding chair of the Tech Nation UK Insurtech Board.
Job Titles:
- Director / Member of the Strategic Committee and Risk Committee
Zhen Wang, a Chinese citizen, holds a Bachelor's degree from the Beijing Normal University, and is a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute (FCII). She began her insurance career in 1982 by joining the Chinese state-owned insurance company PICC, and became the General Manager of the International Department in 1996 when PICC became the PICC group. From 1997 to 2016, she worked for Munich Re where she was the Chief Representative of Munich Re Beijing, then Chief Executive Officer of Munich Re Beijing Branch and a member of the Munich Re Greater China Advisory Board. Zhen Wang has been an independent director of Bank of China Insurance Company since 2014, of Trust Mutual Life Insurance Company in China since 2017 and of PICC Re since 2020.