BALOISE - Key Persons


Alexander Bockelmann

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Corporate Executive Committee
  • Chief IT Officer ( CTO )
  • Chief IT Officer Jpg, 244 KB

Alexandra Engesser

Job Titles:
  • Investor Relations Manager

Andreas Georg Müller

Job Titles:
  • Media Spokesman Baloise Asset Management

Andrej Hug

Job Titles:
  • Investor Relations Manager

Carole Arendt

Job Titles:
  • Media

Carsten Stolz - CFO

Job Titles:
  • CFO
  • Head of Finance
  • Member of the Corporate Executive Committee
  • Head of Finance Jpg, 329 KB
(1968, Germany /Switzerland, Dr rer. pol.) studied business economics at Fribourg University and gained a doctorate specialising in financial management. He holds an Executive Master in Change from INSEAD. He joined the Baloise Group in 2002 as Head of Financial Relations. From 2009 to 2011, he was the Baloise Group's Head of Financial Accounting&Corporate Finance. Between 2011 and 2017, he was Head of Finance and Risk, and thus a member of the Executive Committee, at Basler Versicherungen Switzerland. Dr Carsten Stolz became a member of the Corporate Executive Committee in May 2017. He manages the Corporate Division Finance with its departments Group Accounting&Reporting, Financial Planning&Analysis, Group Risk Management and Corporate Communications&Investor Relations, Mergers & Acquisitions, Group Procurement and Run-off as well as the appointed actuary for Swiss business at Baloise and the Head of Regulatory Affairs. Dr Carsten Stolz is a member of the Finance and Regulation Committee of the Swiss Insurance Association (SVV).

Christoph B. Gloor

Job Titles:
  • Member of Corporate Executive Committee
  • Member of the Board of Directors
Christoph B. Gloor (1966, Switzerland, degree in business economics HWV) has been a member of the Board of Directors since 2014. Since November 2019, he has been a director and limited partner in Basel-based private bank E. Gutzwiller & Cie, Banquiers. He had previously been partner and Chief Executive Officer of private bank La Roche & Co AG before going on to become a member of the Executive Committee and Deputy CEO of Notenstein La Roche Privatbank AG and Deputy Head of Wealth Management at Bank Vontobel AG. Prior to joining La Roche & Co AG in 1998, he worked for Swiss Bank Corporation (SBC) before moving to Vitra (International). Christoph B. Gloor served as president of the Association of Swiss Private Banks from 2013 to 2015 and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Swiss Bankers Association from 2013 to 2015. He was a member of the Board of Managing Directors of the Basel Banking Association until 2019. He holds an Executive Master in Change from INSEAD, where he also completed the International Directors Program in 2018. Christoph B. Gloor is an independent non-executive director.

Christoph Maeder

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Remuneration Committee
  • Member of Corporate Executive Committee
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Vice - Chairman
  • Chairman of Strategy and Governance Committee
Christoph Mäder (1959, Switzerland, lawyer) has been a member of the Board of Directors since 2019 and Vice Chairman since May 2022. From 2000 to 2018, he was a member of the Syngenta International AG executive team with responsibility for legal and tax. He was also a member of the Management Board of the Basel Chamber of Commerce and of scienceindustries until 2018, serving as the latter's president between 2008 and 2014. He has been president of economiesuisse, the umbrella organisation representing Swiss business, since 2020. Christoph Mäder is Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of Lonza Group AG, a member of the Board of Directors of EMS Chemie Holding AG and Assivalor AG and, since 2021, a member of the Bank Council of the Swiss National Bank. He is an independent non-executive director.

Claudia Dill

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
Claudia Dill (1966, Switzerland, economist) has sat on the Board of Directors since 2022. She holds an MBA from the University of Rochester/Bern and completed the Advanced Management Program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. From 1999 to 2020, she worked for Zurich Insurance Group in various management positions in Zurich, New York and Sao Paulo, including CFO of the internal reinsurance and reinsurance run-off business, CFO of the European business and COO of the non-life business. Most recently, she was a member of the Group Executive Committee with responsibility for the Latin American market. Before joining Zurich, Claudia Dill worked for Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank and Coopers and Lybrand. Until March 2022, she was an independent member of the Board of Nordea Bank Abp. She is an independent non-executive director.

Dr Andreas Beerli

Job Titles:
  • Member of Corporate Executive Committee
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Vice - Chairman Jpg, 13

Dr Markus R. Neuhaus

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Audit Committee
  • Member of Corporate Executive Committee
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Chairman / Professor Marie - Noëlle Venturi - Zen - Ruffinen, Vice - Chairwoman
  • Member / Professor Marie - Noëlle Venturi - Zen - Ruffinen, Member
Markus R. Neuhaus (1958, Switzerland, Dr iur., qualified tax expert) has been a member of the Board of Directors since 2019. He was the Chairman of the Board of Directors of PricewaterhouseCoopers AG (PwC) from 2012 to 2019 and served as its CEO for a period of nine years prior to that. He did not hold any operational role at PwC from July 2012 and was not personally involved in the Company's audit engagement for Baloise (until 2015). Dr Markus R. Neuhaus is Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of Barry Callebaut AG and Orior AG. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Galenica AG and Jacobs Holding AG. Dr Markus R. Neuhaus is also Vice-President at Avenir Suisse and at the Zurich Chamber of Commerce, and a member of the Board of Foundation of the ETH Foundation. He is an independent non-executive director.

Dr Maya Bundt

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Member / Professor Hans - Jörg Schmidt - Trenz, Member / Remuneration Committee

Dr Thomas von Planta

Job Titles:
  • Member of Corporate Executive Committee
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Chairman Jpg, 15
  • Chairman of Strategy and Governance Committee
  • Chairman of the Investment and Risk Committee

Dr. Karin Lenzlinger

Job Titles:
  • Member of Corporate Executive Committee
  • Member of the Board of Directors

Fiona Egli

Job Titles:
  • Media Relations Specialist

Gert De Winter

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Corporate Executive Committee
  • President of the Corporate Executive Committee of Baloise Group ( Group CEO ) Jpg, 383 KB
  • President of the Corporate Executive Committee of the Baloise Group ( Group CEO )
(1966, Belgium, MSc) studied applied economics at the University of Antwerp. From 1988 to 2004, he performed various roles at Accenture in Brussels for issues relating to IT and business transformation management in the financial sector. He was made a partner at the firm in the year 2000. In 2005, he joined the Baloise Group as Chief Information Officer and Head of HR of the Mercator insurance company in Belgium. From 2009 to 2015, Gert De Winter was Chief Executive Officer of Baloise Insurance, which was formed in 2011 from the merger of the three insurance companies Mercator, Nateus and Avéro. Gert De Winter has been Group CEO since January 2016. He is a member of the Management Board of the Basel Chamber of Commerce and the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce.

Hans-Jörg Schmidt

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors

Hugo Lasat

Job Titles:
  • Member of Corporate Executive Committee
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Vice - Chairman
  • Chairman of the Investment and Risk Committee

Lukas Jaworski

Job Titles:
  • Media

Manu Mus

Job Titles:
  • Media Officer

Marie-Noëlle Venturi

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors

Markus Holtz

Job Titles:
  • Head of Investor Relations
  • Investor

Matthias Henny

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Corporate Executive Committee
  • Head of Asset Management Jpg, 292 KB
  • Head of Corporate Division Asset Management
(1971, Switzerland, Dr phil.) completed his undergraduate and postgraduate studies in physics at the University of Basel. From 1998 to 2003, he was employed at McKinsey&Co., before switching to what was then the Winterthur Group, where he was Head of Financial Engineering in Asset Management until 2007. Subsequently, he was a member of the management team at AXA Winterthur, as Head of Asset Management (until 2010) and as CFO. In 2012, Dr Matthias Henny joined the Baloise Group. As CEO of Baloise Asset Management AG, he was responsible for the administration of approximately CHF 50 billion in assets. Dr Matthias Henny became a member of the Corporate Executive Committee in May 2017. He manages the Corporate Division Asset Management incorporating the Investment Strategy and Investment Controlling, Business Development, Portfolio Management, Finance, Real Estate and Corporate Services units.

Michael Müller

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Corporate Executive Committee
  • CEO Basler Switzerland
  • CEO Basler Switzerland Jpg, 222 KB
(1971, Switzerland, lic. oec. publ.) graduated in economics from the University of Zurich, specialising in insurance and accounting/finance. He began his career with Basler Versicherungen in 1997, starting as a management trainee, then working in Group Finance and eventually becoming Deputy Head and, in 2004, Head of Financial Accounting for the Baloise Group. In 2009, as Head of Finance and Risk, he became a member of the senior management team in Corporate Division Switzerland. He has been a member of the Corporate Executive Committee and CEO of Corporate Division Switzerland since March 2011, and as such has been in charge of business in Switzerland. Michael Müller is Vice President of the Swiss Insurance Association (SVV) and a member of the Board of Foundation of Stiftung Finanzplatz Basel and the Executive Board of the Association of Basel Insurance Companies. He also sits on the board of the Promotion Society of the Institute of Insurance Economics at the University of St. Gallen.

Nicole Hess

Job Titles:
  • Media Spokeswoman

Roberto Brunazzi

Job Titles:
  • Head of Media Relations

Thomas Klein

Job Titles:
  • Department
  • Media

Thomas Pleines

Job Titles:
  • Member of Corporate Executive Committee
  • Member of the Board of Directors