Responsibility: Worldwide excluding U.S./UK
Head of Advanced Solutions
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Age and Family
Born: August 31st, 1968
Marital status: Married, two children
Degrees: Graduate mathematician, qualified actuary (DAV)
Professional experience in reinsurance
Business career and professional development major stages:
- I studied mathematics and economics at the University of Hannover. After graduating with a degree in mathematics I joined Hannover Re in May 1995.
- During the first year of my career I became acquainted with all kinds of aspects of the life insurance business. Afterwards I worked as an Underwriter and Actuary in the German treaty department for the property and liability insurance business.
- In 1998 I joined the worldwide operating division Advanced Solutions.
- Since the beginning of 2002 I am responsible for structured reinsurance business worldwide. As Managing Director I now head the business center of Hannover Re Advanced Solutions.
Hobbies and Sports
Hobbies:
Family, hiking, cycling, inline skating, reading
Sports:
Badminton, volleyball, tennis
Questions and answers
- Business travel as a reassurer: What do you enjoy the most and what do you loathe?
I enjoy most to gain impressions and experience and to learn from other cultures.
- Which individual do you admire most amongst all insurers or reinsurers?
- How do you normally spend the weekends at home?
Enjoying time with my family (mostly playing football).
- What is your personal taste in music and/or literature?
Classical music (especially Beethoven, Grieg, Sibelius, Die Ärzte).
- Which are your favourite cities/holiday destinations?
Skandinavia.
- If you were banned to a remote island, which three items would you take with you?
A mobile phone (for pickup service), a book (in order to reconcile time) and an umbrella (to be protected against sun and rain).
- What is the most important technical invention of the last millennium?
Use of electricity.
- What is your preferred drink and/or meal?
Latte Macchiato and Crème Brûlée.
Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Central and Eastern Europe, MENA, Captives
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Age and Family
Born: September 15, 1973
Marital status: Unmarried
Degrees: Graduate in Mathematics, Computer Science and Business Economics
Business career and professional development major stages:
- Starting my career in reinsurance, I joined Hannover Re in June 2001. Since that time I have been working as an underwriter in the worldwide operating division “Advanced Solutions”, which forms one of the eight main lines of Hannover Re's non-life business. As a senior underwriter, I am dealing with structured reinsurance business related to German, Austrian, Swiss, Italian, Eastern European, Middle Eastern as well as corporate and captive clients.
Hobbies and Sports
Hobbies:
Cinema, travelling, hiking, capital markets
Sports:
Skiing, cycling, jogging
Questions and answers
- What is your personal taste in music and/or literature?
Pop, rock as well as alternative (music) and Tom Clancy (literature).
- Which are your favourite cities/holiday destinations?
Hannover/Namibia and the Alps.
- If you were banned to a remote island, which three items would you take with you?
Spectacles, leatherman tool, solar satellite phone.
- What is the most important technical invention of the last millennium?
Availability of electricity.
- What is your preferred drink and/or meal?
Coca Cola, pizza and beef roulade with Thuringian potato dumplings and red cabbage.
Actuarial and Underwriting Services
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Age and Family
Marital status: Married, one son, one daughter
Degrees: Mathematics graduate, chartered actuary
Professional experience in reinsurance
Business career and professional development major stages:
- I studied mathematics and economics at the University of Hannover. After graduating with a degree in mathematics I joined Hannover Re in August 1997.
- I started my reinsurance career as an assistant underwriter in the worldwide operating division "Advanced Solutions". Now, my geographical responsibilities for the structured reinsurance business encompassed Latin America and Europe.
- Since 2001 I am a fully qualified actuary.
Hobbies and Sports
Hobbies:
Sports and my Spanish lessons
Sports:
Karate (Blue Belt) and Jogging
Questions and answers
- Business travel as a reinsurer: What do you enjoy the most and what do you loathe?
I enjoy most to gain impressions and experience from places where you would not otherwise travel. However, I always miss my partner, my family and my friends.
- Which individual do you admire most amongst all insurers or reinsurers?
- How do you normally spend the weekends at home?
Sleeping in and relaxing, some exercise (jogging)
- What is your personal taste in music and/or literature?
Pop & Rock
- Which are your favourite cities/holiday destinations?
Latin America and Spain
- If you were banned to a remote island, which three items would you take with you?
- What is the most important technical invention of the last millennium?
Dishwasher
- What is your preferred drink and/or meal?
All kinds of seafood, fresh cold water after sports and a cappuccino after a nice meal
Germany, Austria, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Nordic Countries
MENA, Turkey, Greece, Cyprus
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Age and Family
Born: 1981
Marital status: Married, father of a daughter
Degrees: Dr. rer. nat., Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Math.
Business career and professional development - major stages:
- I studied mathematics with the subsidiary subject economics at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg and finished with the diploma degree (equivalent to the master's degree). After my studies I held a research position within the excellence cluster “Nano structured Materials”, being part of the University of Halle. Having gained three years of experience with academic research in the fields of stochastic processes and evolution equations I was conferred of a doctorate and crossed lines towards the reinsurance industry by joining Hannover Re Advanced Solutions in September 2009.
Hobbies and Sports
Hobbies:
Reading, mathematics (keeping track with latest results), travelling, my family.
Sports:
Alpine skiing, cycling, hiking.
Questions and answers
- Business travel as a reinsurer: What do you enjoy most and what do you loathe?
The most exciting thing about travelling is to get in touch with different cultures and to experience metropolises which are not on our family travel plan. I extremely loathe waiting for connection flights or trains on airports or train stations.
- How do you normally spend the weekends at home?
Always with my family.
- What is your personal taste in music and/or literature?
This depends very much on my mood and varies from classical music and jazz to pop and rock but also to electronic music. Regarding literature, my favourite authors are Simon Singh, Dan Brown, and Tom Wolfe.
- Which are your favourite cities/holiday destinations?
My favourite cities are Hong Kong, London, New York, Munich, and Leipzig. Regarding holidays I love travelling to Austria, Italy, Spain and Asia.
- If you were banned to a remote island, which three items would you take with you?
My wife, my daughter (although they are no “items”) and my notebook to keep the business running.
- What is the most important technical invention of the last millennium?
The internet.
- What is your preferred drink and/or meal?
I love the Asian and Greek kitchen completed with a cool glass of Hefeweizen.
Underwriting Services
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Age and Family
Born: 1972
Marital status: Married, two sons
Degrees: Versicherungsbetriebswirt @ German FCII
Professional experience in reinsurance
Business career and professional development major stages:
- 1991 - Apprenticeship at Hannover Re
- 1994 - Underwriting Assistance in the Treaty Department Germany
- 1996 - Analyses in the Reinsurance Department of HDI
- 1997 - Underwriting in the Treaty Department Australasia
- 2000 - Underwriting in ASG
Hobbies and Sports
Hobbies:
Reading, games, unicycling, ...
Sports:
Jogging, swimming, cycling, ...
Questions and answers
- Business travel as a reinsurer: What do you enjoy the most and what do you loathe?
I like most to meet interesting people and to experience different cultures. I loathe to wait at airports and being away from my family.
- Which individual do you admire most amongst all insurers or reinsurers?
Difficult to say.
- How do you normally spend the weekends at home?
Enjoy family, friends and sports.
- What is your personal taste in music and/or literature?
Rock/pop music. Thrillers, historical novels.
- Which are your favourite cities/holiday destinations?
Sydney. Everywhere where it is not too crowded and where I find beautiful nature.
- If you were banned to a remote island, which three items would you take with you?
My family, beanbags, laptop with scores of e-books.
- What is the most important technical invention of the last millennium?
The washing machine.
- What is your preferred drink and/or meal?
Nothing preferred. I like the variety.
Southern Europe, Latin America, Asia Pacific, South Africa
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Age and Family
Born: 24th July 1973 in Cologne
Marital status: Married, two sons
Degrees: Diplom-Kaufmann (Business Administration)
Professional experience in reinsurance
Business career and professional development major stages:
- Apprenticeship Allianz Versicherungs AG, Cologne
- Degree in Business Administration University of Cologne
- February 2001 until August 2002: Management Trainee at Hannover Re
- Since August 2002: with Advanced Solutions Germany
Hobbies and Sports
Hobbies:
Music (piano, guitar)
Questions and answers
- Business travel as a reinsurer: What do you enjoy the most and what do you loathe?
Enjoyable: Meeting colleagues or clients from all parts of the world, learning about different cultures.
Not enjoyable: getting over jet lags.
- How do you normally spend the weekends at home?
Spending time with my family, playing with my sons.
- What is your personal taste in music and/or literature?
Music: Nearly everything from Grunge/Heavy Metal over Fusion/Jazz/Rock to classics (favourites there: Sibelius and Grieg).
Literature: Michael Chabon, Sten Nadolny, Heinrich Böll.
- Which are your favourite cities/holiday destinations?
Norway, Iceland, would like to go to New Zealand in the near future.
- If you were banned to a remote island, which three items would you take with you?
- Guitar
- Solar Discman incl. one "Dave Matthews Band" CD
- Picture of the people I love
- What is the most important technical invention of the last millennium?
Book printing.
- What is your preferred drink and/or meal?
A good red wine and good cheese.
Japan, Greater China, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, South Africa
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Age and Family
Born: 1975
Marital status: Unmarried
Degrees: Graduate in mathematics and computer science
Professional experience in reinsurance
Since January 2001
Business career and professional development - major stages:
- University 1995 - 1997 Basic Studies in Mathematics/Information Studies at the University of Hannover.
- Since 1997 Advanced Studies in Mathematics/Information Studies at the University of Hannover,
Concentration: Stochastics
- Masters Thesis "Distributional Approximations of Patterns in Random Character Strings"
- Completion of Studies August 2000
- Hannover Re January 2001 Start of business career in the Advanced Solutions Germany team, part of Hannover Re Advanced Solutions
Hobbies and Sports
Hobbies:
Motorbike, playing guitar
Squash
Questions and answers
- Business travel as a reinsurer: What do you enjoy the most and what do you loathe?
Getting in contact with different individual cultures is most enjoyable as it widens your horizon.
- How do you normally spend the weekends at home?
The weekend is dedicated to hobbies. Also meeting with friends at the weekend is always a welcome change.
- What is your personal taste in music and/or literature?
Music: Difficult to answer. But if I can only give one answer: Flower Power.
Literature: Various.
- Which are your favourite cities/holiday destinations?
Any coastal country where you can experience the wide ocean.
- If you were banned to a remote island, which three items would you take with you?
A ship in order to decide on my own when to leave the island and come back to civilization.
- What is the most important technical invention of the last millennium?
The book.
- What is your preferred drink and/or meal?
A tasty Irish beer.
Spain, Portugal, Latin America, The Caribbean
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Age and Family
Born: 22 October 1980
Marital status: Unmarried
Degrees: Master in Business Administration and International Management
Professional experience in reinsurance
- Hannover Re Advanced Solutions since July 2006
Hobbies and Sports
Hobbies:
Reading, philosophy and modern history
Sports:
Soccer, running, squash, beach volleyball
Questions and answers
- Business travel as a reinsurer: What do you enjoy the most and what do you loathe?
I really enjoy meeting people with a different cultural background. The negative aspect is that there is little leisure time left during a business trip.
- Which individual do you admire most amongst all insurers or reinsurers?
I admire people that fight for their belief - this is independent from a special industry.
- How do you normally spend the weekends at home?
I do some sports, go shopping, take care of my friends and enjoy life.
- What is your personal taste in music and/or literature?
I like reading historical novels.
- Which are your favourite cities/holiday destinations?
My preferred cities are Barcelona and Paris. As to holiday destination regions I like Mexico, Italy and I plan to travel to New Zealand.
- If you were banned to a remote island, which three items would you take with you?
A rope, a knife and a book. I will not take a football with me - otherwise I start talking to that ball like Tom Hanks in "Cast Away".
- What is the most important technical invention of the last millennium?
The car, because it makes life easier.
- What is your preferred drink and/or meal?
It depends - there is nothing better than a cold water after sports. At night I prefer a beer or a cocktail.
South East Asia
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Age and Family
Born: 7 July 1980
Marital status: married, one son
Degrees: Degree in Economics
Professional experience in reinsurance
Business career and professional development - major stages:
- After studying Economics in Regensburg and Berlin I joined Hannover Re Advanced Solutions in April 2008.
Hobbies and Sports
Hobbies: Reading and meeting friends.
Sports: I prefer to watch it... occasionally.
Questions and answers
- Business travel as a reinsurer: What do you enjoy the most and what do you loathe?
I enjoy meeting people from all over the world and learn about their countries and cultures.
- How do you normally spend the weekends at home?
Relax and take walks.
- What is your personal taste in music and/or literature?
Music: Basically all kinds of music, especially rock music of the 60s and 70s (The Doors, Deep Purple, CCR etc.
Literature: Thrillers, novels (Mo Hayder, Ian McEwan, Will Self etc.).
- Which are your favourite cities/holiday destinations?
NYC
- If you were banned to a remote island, which three items would you take with you?
1. A book: "Surviving on a remote island with three items if one of them is this book"
2. A Swiss Army Knife
3. A good book to read
- What is the most important technical invention of the last millennium?
Electricity
- What is your preferred drink and/or meal?
Bitter Lemon and anything from the Asian Cuisine.
Latin America, Eastern Europe
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Age and Family
Born: 27 December 1983
Marital status: Single
Degrees: Diploma in mathematics
Hobbies and Sports
Hobbies:
I try to do a lot of sports. Furthermore I like travelling, especially visiting my friends in Europe, who I met during my exchange programme in Salamanca, Spain.
Sports:
First of all I like playing football, but I also go jogging, swimming and enjoy Yoga.
Questions and answers
- Business travel as a reinsurer: What do you enjoy most and what do you loathe?
So far I did not have the opportunity to enjoy any by myself.
- How do you normally spend the weekends at home?
I am still visiting my family and my friends in Berlin, but I start enjoying Hannover, especially the nature in Hannover and its surroundings.
- What is your personal taste in music and/or literature?
Lately, I like listening to electronic music, but generally I enjoy all kinds of music, except for Hip Hop.
- Which are your favourite cities/holiday destinations?
Among all cities I have been to I fell in love with Cracow, Poland, but for longer holidays I would appreciate a beautiful beach in a Mediterranean climate.
- What is the most important technical invention of the last millennium?
Definitely the internet as it changed almost everybody's way of living.
- What is your preferred drink and/or meal?
Self-made Sangria and a French variation of goulash, which I learned to cook from a French friend.
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Degrees: Diplom-Kaufmann (Business Administration)
Professional experience in reinsurance
Since September 2011: Hannover Re Advanced Solutions
Hobbies and Sports
Hobbies:
Cinema, meeting friends, reading, programming
Sports:
Swimming and cycling
Questions and answers
- What is your personal taste in music and/or literature?
German chanson by Reinhard Mey and contemporary music in general (for as long as it's not too loud). For books the like of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
- Which are your favourite cities/holiday destinations?
Anywhere with old castles, city walls or ruins to explore. So, Carcassonne, Mont Saint-Michel and the Rhine valley as well as Eisenach's Wartburg.
- If you were banned to a remote island, which three items would you take with you?
A teleporter, a replicator and an adequate power source. If unavailable, a supply of food, a fully charged satellite phone and my colleague Jan's book on Surviving on a remote Island with three Items if one of them is this Book.
- What is the most important technical invention of the last millennium?
A thousand years of technology is a lot to consider, but I have to admit my glasses mean a lot to me. They let me see. The electrical generator is another important invention.
- What is your preferred drink and/or meal?
I've a bit of a sweet tooth, so my favourite drink is Orangina. And there's nothing like a good lasagna and some mousse au chocolat.
