Members of the Managing Board

The size of the Managing Board was increased to ten members on 13 June 2009, the effective date of the resolution amending the articles of association passed by the General Shareholders’ Meeting resolution on 24 April 2009. The Managing Board had the following members in financial year 2009.

The Managing Board formed two Managing Board committees, one to deal with Group matters (Vienna Insurance Group Committee) and the other with the management of Wiener Städtische in Austria (Wiener Städtische Austria Committee).

Vienna Insurance Group Committee
Dr. Günter Geyer
Dkfm. Karl Fink (until 30 September 2009)
Dr. Peter Hagen
Dr. Martin Simhandl
Ing. Martin Divis (starting 13 June 2009)
Franz Fuchs (starting 1 October 2009)
Mag. Peter Höfinger

Wiener Städtische Austria Committee
Dr. Günter Geyer
Mag. Robert Lasshofer
Dr. Christine Dornaus (starting 13 June 2009)
Dr. Judit Havasi (starting 13 June 2009)
Erich Leiß (starting 13 June 2009)

Detailed information on the members of the Managing Board:

Dr. Günter Geyer
General Manager and Chairman of the Managing Board
Year of birth: 1943
Date first appointed: 1988

End of current term of office: 30 June 2013
Areas of responsibility: management of the Group, strategic questions, public relations, marketing, legal office, human resources Country responsibilities: Austria (including branch offices in Italy and Slovenia), Slovakia

Positions currently held on the supervisory boards of other domestic and foreign corporations outside of the Group:
Casinos Austria AG
CEESEG Aktiengesellschaft
SOZIALBAU gemeinnützige Wohnungsaktiengesellschaft
Wiener Börse AG

Dkfm. Karl Fink (until 30 September 2009)
General Manager
Year of birth: 1945
Date first appointed: 1987
End of term of office: 30 September 2009

Areas of responsibility 2009: corporate and large risk business (underwriting claims)

Positions currently held on the supervisory boards of other domestic and foreign corporations outside of the Group:
Wienerberger AG
AT&S Austria Technologie & Systemtechnik AG

Dr. Peter Hagen
Deputy General Manager
Year of birth: 1959
Date first appointed: 2004
End of current term of office: 30 June 2013

Areas of responsibility: sponsoring, cost structure of the Group, Group IT / back office, SAP Smile Solutions, VIG RE, project internal capital model (project Solvency II)

Positions currently held on the supervisory boards of other domestic and foreign corporations outside of the Group:
voestalpine AG

Mag. Robert Lasshofer
Deputy General Manager
Year of birth: 1957
Date first appointed: 1999
End of current term of office: 30 June 2013

Areas of responsibility: sales, corporate and large risk business, marketing/advertising

Positions currently held on the supervisory boards of other domestic and foreign corporations outside of the Group:
SOZIALBAU gemeinnützige Wohnungsaktiengesellschaft
Bausparkasse der österreichischen Sparkassen AG

Dr. Martin Simhandl
CFO
Year of birth: 1961
Date first appointed: 2004
End of current term of office: 30. Juni 2013

Areas of responsibility: asset management, asset-risk management, subsidiary and loans management, finance and accounting, coordination TBIH
Country responsibilities: Germany, Liechtenstein, Croatia

Ing. Martin Diviš, MBA (starting 13 June 2009)
Year of birth: 1973
Date first appointed: 2009
End of current term of office: 30 June 2013

Areas of responsibility: profitability steering motor insurance
Country responsibilities: Czech Repbulic, Belarus, Ukraine

Dr. Christine Dornaus (starting 13 June 2009)
Year of birth: 1963
Date first appointed: 2009
End of current term of office: 30 June 2013

Areas of responsibility: investment/ownership interest/real estate, accounting

Positions currently held on the supervisory boards of other domestic and foreign corporations outside of the Group:
ATHENA Wien Beteiligungen AG
Porr Projekt und Hochbau Aktiengesellschaft
Porr Technobau und Umwelt Aktiengesellschaft

Franz Fuchs (starting 1 October 2009)
Year of birth: 1953
Date first appointed: 2009
End of current term of office: 30 June 2013

Areas of responsibility: profitability steering personal insurance
Country responsibilities: Baltic States, Bulgaria, Poland, Romania

Positions currently held on the supervisory boards of other domestic and foreign corporations outside of the Group:
C-QUADRAT Investment AG

Dr. Judit Havasi (starting 13 June 2009)
Year of birth: 1975
Date first appointed: 2009
End of current term of office: 30 June 2013

Areas of responsibility: human resources, law, reinsurance/actuarial services personal insurance

Mag. Peter Höfinger
Year of birth: 1971
Date first appointed: 2009
End of current term of office: 30 June 2013

Areas of responsibility: corporate and large risk business, Vienna International Underwriters (VIU), reinsurance
Country responsibility: Hungary, Serbia

Positions currently held on the supervisory boards of other domestic and foreign corporations outside of the Group:
Insurance Joint Stock Company MSK Standart

Erich Leiß (starting 13 June 2009)
Year of birth: 1956
Date first appointed: 2009
End of current term of office: 30 June 2013

Areas of responsibility: non-life insurance (underwriting/claims), IT, busindess organisation, reinsurance property insurance

The Managing Board is responsible for the issues of the General Secretariat, Group Controlling, Enterprise Risk Management, Actuarial Department, Internal Audit and Investor Relations.

The following two substitute members were also appointed to the Managing Board, and will become members of the Managing Board in the event of a long-term inability of a member of the Managing Board to discharge his or her duties:

Mag. Roland Gröll (Year of birth: 1965)
Dr. Franz Kosyna (Year of birth: 1954)