Munich, Germany - Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE (AGCS), the global industrial insurer of the Allianz Group, announces the following board of management changes, effective January 1, 2015.
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Axel Theis, Chief Executive Officer of AGCS, has been appointed to the Allianz SE Board of Management with responsibility for the global industrial insurance business, credit insurance and the insurance business in Ireland and Great Britain.
Dr. Theis serves as a Co-Chief Executive Officer of Allianz Insurance plc.
Dr. Theis serves as Chief Executive Officer of Allianz Global Corporate & Speciality AG.
He serves as Head of Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty of Allianz SE.
He serves as Chairman of the Executive Board of Allianz Global Risks Rückversicherungs-AG. He serves as the Chairman and Director of Allianz Risk Transfer AG.
He serves as the Chairman of Management Board of Allianz Global Corporate & Speciality AG.
Dr. Theis serves as Member of Management Board at Allianz Global Corporate & Speciality AG.
He serves as Member of the Supervisory Board of ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG.
He served as a Board Member of Allianz Global Risks and of Allianz Versicherung, the main property/casualty company of the Allianz group in Germany.
He is succeeding Clement B. Booth who is stepping down from the Allianz SE Board and retiring from Allianz.
Chris Fischer Hirs, current Chief Financial Officer will take on the role of CEO of AGCS.
Mr. Fischer Hirs joined Allianz Risk Transfer (ART) in 1999.
At ART, which became part of AGCS in 2006, Fischer Hirs held a variety of roles including CFO and latterly CEO.
In 2007 he was appointed to the AGCS Board of Management with responsibility for Asia-Pacific and ART.
He then became Chief Regions & Markets Officer in addition to his ART responsibilities, before being appointed CFO of AGCS in 2009.
Prior to joining Allianz in 1999, he worked at Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) where he held a number of client-facing and managerial positions in Zurich and New York.
Nina Klingspor, Head of CEO Office for Allianz SE, will become CFO of AGCS.
Ms. Klingspor will be joining the AGCS Board next January as CFO from her previous role as Head of CEO Office at Allianz SE since 2012.
She brings strong financial and operational experience to her new position, having been Managing Director of Allianz Global Investors Europe prior to her latest role.
Before this, she worked at Allianz Global Investors and Allianz Asset Management in a range of managerial and market-facing roles. ■