I love to identify, manage and mitigate risk in any shape of form. For the past 20 years I have held various technical and management roles with Zurich’s Risk Engineering, Global Corporate and now Commercial Insurance business units, while remaining active as a Colonel in the Swiss Army.My key risk expertise: - Business Resilience and the role Risk Management has to play to achieve it;- Operational risks along the value chain;- Generating Risk Insights from Big Data;- Learning from Losses;- the Risk Engineering Doctrine;- Telematics and Road Safety: I represent Zurich on the Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP).My management principles:- Be always prepared for the known, and fit for the unknown!- All business endeavors involve risk, thus Risk Appetite is a fundamental cultural/strategic dimension of any organisation.- Management is all about decision making.- Multi-disciplinary teams produce the best possible analysis results.- Properly designed automatic solutions are more reliable than human intervention.My competencies are: - Leading an international and multi-hierarchical professional service operation within a large global corporation;- Chairing a multicultural leadership team as well as project teams and staff with budget responsibility;- Developing an organization of technical professionals using process oriented IT tools and management systems; - Utilizing the latest methods to qualify, quantify and manage risks;- Analytical and methodological thinking and acting;- Experience in training, presentation and moderation;- Consulting experience across all levels of hierarchy in respect of risk management and loss prevention;- Geo-political and economic scenario planning.