General Manager and Chairman of the Managing Board
Year of birth: 1943
Date first appointed: 1988
End of current term of office: on the last day of the month in which the 2012 Annual General Meeting is held
Dr. Günter Geyer joined Wiener Städtische Versicherung in 1974 and was appointed to the Managing Board in 1988. Since 1 July 2001 he has been General Manager and Chairman of the Managing Board of the Vienna Insurance Group. In various positions in Austria and the CEE region, Dr. Geyer made a key contribution to shaping the Group’s rise to the status of an internationally successful insurance group. He held, for example, the function of Chairman of the Managing Board of Union Versicherung as well as that of General Manager of Donau Versicherung. Dr. Günter Geyer was directly involved in setting up the Company’s first insurers in Central and Eastern Europe.
Areas of responsibility: Group management, strategic planning, public relations, marketing, sponsoring, legal matters, 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 the Group: Casinos Austria AG, Casinos Austria International Holding GmbH, Österreichische Verkehrsbüro Aktiengesellschaft, Regionalmedien Austria AG, Wien Holding GmbH
