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Dr. Karl
Mayr
Chairman, AXIS Re
CEO & President, AXIS Re Europe |
| Dr. Karl Mayr has been Chief Executive Officer and President of AXIS Re Europe since August 2003. He also serves as Chairman of AXIS Re globally. Mr. Mayr has over 30 years of reinsurance experience. He joined Frankona Ruckversicherungs-AG in 1980, where he was appointed a member of the Board of Management in 1992. From 1988 to 1992, he held senior officer positions at the U.S. branch of Frankona in Kansas City, Missouri, which he led from 1990. After the acquisition of Frankona by ERC, he served on various boards of management in the German companies as well as a director on the boards of several European affiliates. From 2002 until July 2003, Mr. Mayr was Chief Executive Officer of GE Frankona Re. |
E-mail karl.mayr@axiscapital.com
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Stephan
Knipper
COO, AXIS Re
Executive Vice President & Deputy CEO, AXIS Re Europe |
| Stephan Knipper has been with AXIS since the formation of AXIS Re Europe in 2003. With 23 years of reinsurance experience, he serves as Deputy to Karl Mayr. In addition to his function as Deputy CEO, Stephan was appointed Chief Operating Officer of AXIS Re with worldwide responsibilities in September 2009. Prior to joining AXIS, he had been a member of the Board of Management of Gerling Global Re Group. He also previously served as CEO of Gerling Global & General Re UK in London and as Chief Underwriter for Casualty, Credit & Marine at Gerling Global Re Group in Cologne. Stephan began his career with an international law firm and accountancy firm. He has degrees in Law and Economics. |
| E-mail stephan.knipper@axiscapital.com |
Bruno Felix
Executive Vice President and Senior Underwriter,
Motor & Personal Accident |
| Bruno Felix, a qualified actuary, has 28
years experience in insurance and reinsurance. Before joining AXIS, Bruno
served many years as Executive Manager and Chief Underwriter for the Paris
Branch of Gerling Globale Rueck with responsibilities in all property, casualty
and life treaty lines. Before joining Gerling in 1986, he worked for the
reinsurance department of the French Insurer GAN. He began his career in 1980
as an Insurance Commissioner in Ivory Coast. |
| E-mail bruno.felix@axiscapital.com |
Uwe Remy
Executive Vice President and Head of Credit & Bond |
| Uwe Remy has 26 years of experience in credit insurance and reinsurance. Before joining Axis Re, Uwe spent 16 years at Swiss Re, holding various senior positions in credit and surety reinsurance. Prior to joining Swiss Re in 1994, he worked as Senior Credit Underwriter at Winterthur for two years. Uwe began his career at Gerling Konzern Speziale Kreditversicherung (now Atradius) in 1984 as a trainee and became later the deputy head of accounting/controlling and reinsurance.
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| E-mail uwe.remy@axiscapital.com |
Dr. Gerd Bausert
Senior Vice President & Senior Underwriter, Engineering |
| Dr. Gerd Bausert joined AXIS in February 2006. He started his reinsurance career with Munich Re, Munich in 1986. After 4 years he moved on to the Zurich Insurance Company as Senior Underwriter Engineering and Construction in the Assumed Reinsurance Department. After restructuring of the reinsurance activities of the Zurich he became the Underwriting Manager Engineering of the Zurich Re for the treaty and facultative account. With the spin-off and the establishment of Converium he managed the Engineering team in Zurich and the underwriters in the branch offices. Gerd has a Master of Science Degree and a PhD in Engineering and began his career in the construction industry. |
| E-mail gerd.bausert@axiscapital.com |
Andrew Bisset
Senior Vice President and Senior Underwriter,
Property Catastrophe |
| Andrew Bisset has over 22 years of reinsurance and insurance experience, including seven years with Axis. Andrew has built a well diversified catastrophe treaty portfolio having worked in Bermuda, Dublin and currently Zurich for AXIS. His background includes more than 12 years underwriting for the reinsurance division of The Hartford in Hartford, Paris, London and Boston. His roles were focused on the broker market, especially in property catastrophe. He began his career in Boston underwriting direct insurance for Liberty Mutual's National Accounts Department and for the electronics underwriting division of St. Paul Fire and Marine. |
| E-mail andrew.bisset@axiscapital.com |
Jan Ekberg
Senior Vice President and Senior Underwriter,
Property Non-Catastrophe |
| Jan Ekberg has 27 years of underwriting
experience in reinsurance. Before joining AXIS
Re, Zurich, Jan was Underwriting Team Leader for
Property Pro-Rata and Per Risk business for the European Branch Offices
at GE Frankona based in Copenhagen. Earlier Jan had served in various
positions in GE Frankona, latest as Area Manager and Underwriter for
The Netherlands from 1999 to 2002 and from 1996 to 1999 he lead the
Facultative Property Centre of Excellence based in Munich. Jan began
his career at a direct insurance company. |
| E-mail jan.ekberg@axiscapital.com |
Cathriona Donlon
Vice President and Senior Underwriter, Liability & Special Lines |
| Cathriona Donlon has over 21 years of reinsurance and insurance experience. Prior to joining AXIS, she was a Senior Casualty Underwriter and a member of the Underwriting Technical Services Team at Converium. She previously worked in London for 10 years, having started her career as part of the RSA Graduate Trainee Programme in 1989. She held various underwriting positions at RSA in the London Market and Multinational Risks divisions, and then spent two years at Hannover Re before moving to Zurich in 1999. Cathriona is ACII qualified, and she holds a BA in Economics from University College Dublin. |
| E-mail cathriona.donlon@axiscapital.com |
Marc
Maupoux
Vice President and Senior Underwriter, Property Non-Catastrophe |
| Marc is a qualified Actuary and has been with AXIS since the formation of AXIS Re Europe in 2003. He has 17 years of reinsurance experience. Before joining AXIS, Marc founded Mpx Consultores (Actuarios y Reaseguros) in Lima, Peru in 2002. Previously he was Area Manager & Senior Underwriter for Rhein Rueck/Alea, Basel. His reinsurance career started with Hannover Rueck, Hannover as an Underwriter Life/Non-life. |
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Christoph
Nienhaus
Vice President and Senior Underwriter, Credit & Bond |
| Christoph Nienhaus has 19 years of
experience in Credit & Bond insurance and reinsurance.
Before joining AXIS, Christoph served as Senior Underwriter
and Member of the Management in the Credit & Surety
Department of Partner Re in Paris. Prior to joining
Partner Re Christoph was Underwriter at GeneralCologne
Re in Cologne and at Gerling Konzern Speziale Kreditversicherung
(now Atradius). |
| E-mail christoph.nienhaus@axiscapital.com |
Graham Vickers
Vice President and Senior Underwriter, Motor & Personal Accident |
| Before joining AXIS in mid-2010, Graham Vickers worked in London for Prudential, Employers Re, Zurich Re, Converium and Everest Re in treaty underwriting and client relationship management roles covering various lines of business and territories. He has around 35 years of industry experience, including around 30 years of underwriting motor treaties. Since 2002, he has specialised almost exclusively in this class. |
| E-mail graham.vickers@axiscapital.com |
Christoph
Virchow
Vice President and Senior Underwriter, Credit & Bond |
| Christoph Virchow has been a specialised
reinsurance underwriter for 19 years. Before joining
the AXIS Re team, Christoph was a senior Credit, Surety & Political
Risk underwriter for Swiss Re with market responsibility
for, among other markets, the UK and France. He joined
Swiss Re in 1996. From 1990 until then he was a Credit & Surety
underwriter with Zurich Re (now Converium), where he
was in charge of Germany, France and Italy as well
as other markets. Earlier, Christoph had been a commercial
banker for Credit Suisse in Zurich. |
| E-mail christoph.virchow@axiscapital.com |
Felix Winzap
Vice President and Senior Underwriter, Credit & Bond |
| Felix Winzap has been a specialized credit and bond reinsurance underwriter for 12 years. Before joining the Axis Re team, Felix had been working as a director for Swiss Re Credit and Bonds. He had a special focus on the Latin American surety markets, but also was responsible for many European credit and surety markets such as the UK, Scandinavia, the Middle East, etc. Before that Felix had worked for two years as a direct insurance broker and for two years in Winterthur Re’s marine department. |
| E-mail felix.winzap@axiscapital.com |
Wolfgang Amiras
Vice President & Underwriter, Property Non-Catastrophe |
| Wolfgang Amiras has 18 years of reinsurance experience in property underwriting. Prior to joining AXIS, he was an Underwriting Manager with GE Frankona Reinsurance in Munich, responsible for property underwriting in Austria, Switzerland and Central Eastern Europe. He has a degree in business administration from University of Passau. |
| E-mail wolfgang.amiras@axiscapital.com |
Thomas Chapuis
Vice President and Underwriter,
Casualty |
| Thomas Chapuis has 10 years of experience in non-life insurance and reinsurance. Before joining AXIS Re, Thomas spent three years in other reinsurance companies as a management controller and an actuary. He began his career as a non-life actuary in MAAF assurances where he worked on the Motor tariff and construction reserving. |
| E-mail thomas.chapuis@axiscapital.com |
Alain Favre
Vice President & Underwriter, Engineering |
| Alain Favre graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich with a Master's degree in material science. He worked for eight years in the medical devices industry with responsibilities in product development and marketing. Before joining Axis in 2006, he started his reinsurance career in 2004 at Converium as Engineering underwriter for the French and Spanish speaking countries. |
| E-mail alain.favre@axiscapital.com |
Andy Hottinger
Vice President & Underwriter, Engineering |
| After having graduated from the Swiss Federal Institure of Technology Zurich with a Master’s degree in mechanical engineering, Andy Hottinger has worked for eight years in the power generation industry as commissioning engineer and contract manager for ABB and ALSTOM. Before joining Axis in 2008, Andy worked for two years at Converium and Scor as Engineering underwriter for treaty and facultative business. |
| E-mail andy.hottinger@axiscapital.com |
Florian Lutz
Vice President & Underwriter, Property Catastrophe |
| Florian Lutz has over 18 years of re- and insurance experience. Before joining Axis Florian worked for Aon Re as head of a division for Germany, Austria and Central Eastern Europe. He started his career at AXA Insurance in the fire industrial department as an underwriter for the German industrial fire and CAR/EAR business. He has a degree in business administration. |
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Patrick Wendt
Vice President & Underwriter, Credit & Bond |
| Patrick Wendt has eleven years of experience in Trade Credit & Surety underwriting. Before joining Axis Re in November 2009, Patrick held various positions within Swiss Re. From 2006 onwards, he was responsible for the build-up of a Asia/Pacific Credit products unit out of Hong Kong. Previously, he was a Senior Account Manager in Zurich for markets such as UK and Ireland/Scandinavia/Africa. Before re-joining Swiss Re in 2002, Patrick studied Journalism and worked as Editor-in-Chief for a Swiss radio station and an economic news agency. |
| E-mail patrick.wendt@axiscapital.com |
Fabio Rosada
Assistant Vice President & Underwriter, Property Catastrophe |
| Fabio Rosada has over 15 years of insurance and reinsurance experience. Before joining the Axis Re Cat team, he was an Underwriter / Product Manager at Winterthur Group Head Office. Prior to that position, he worked as Commercial Lines Underwriter at Zurich Financial Services. Fabio began his career at Vaudoise Assurances as a Non-Life / Life Claims Adjuster. Fabio is an Associate in Reinsurance and holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen. |
| E-mail fabio.rosada@axiscapital.com |
Simon Stirnemann
Assistant Vice President & Underwriter, Liability & Special Lines |
| Simon Stirnemann graduated from the Graduate Institute of International Studies Geneva with a Master’s degree in International Studies/International Economics in 2005. In October 2005 he started working in the Casualty Department of Axis Re Europe focusing on UK as well as Continental European Liability Business. |
| E-mail simon.stirnemann@axiscapital.com |
Stefan
Habereder
Executive Vice President and Head Actuary |
| Before joining AXIS Re Europe in January
2004, Stefan Habereder served for two years as
head of the corporate actuarial department at Allianz
Global Risks in Munich. From 1999 to 2001 he was General
Manager Underwriting at Allianz Re, Dublin. He began
his career with Allianz in 1996 in the treaty reinsurance
department and became a fully qualified member of the
German actuarial society in 1998. He holds a MSc in
game theory and applied mathematics. |
| E-mail stefan.habereder@axiscapital.com |
Andreas
Brauchli
Vice President, Operations Manager |
| Andreas Brauchli joined AXIS as Financial
Accountant for the Zurich Branch. From 1998 to 2004,
among other positions, Andreas has worked as Senior
Accountant for Group Reporting within the Finance Division
of Swiss Re. Prior to 1998, he had worked for Union
Re as Technical Accountant. |
| E-mail andreas.brauchli@axiscapital.com |
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