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Baar, Zug, Schweiz

Greater Zurich Area

Tertianum is the Swiss market and thought leader in elderly care, standing for a high standard of senior living. We aim to make the lives of senior citizens worth living every day at all of our more than 96 locations across Switzerland: through a wide range of activities, caring nursing care, high-quality catering and comprehensive medical care. We employ over 6’500 staff and host approximately 7’000 guests.Key achievements:• Established the new service organisation with clear mission and goals, service levels, a strong team fit and value-based actions• Drove strategy process of the Group, re-wrote strategy story line, shaped 5 year roadmap, aligned financial plan with strategy, set annual goals together with BoD, CEO and CxO• Delivered procurement business case, realising 8% cash savings of managed spend in first year equivalent of 6% of EBITDA• Sponsored IT Infrastructure overhaul, modernising infrastructure, increasing IT security and reducing run-rate costs by 30%, 2% of EBITDA• Launched and delivered group wide water efficiency initiative (-30%), food waste reduction initiative (-40%), energy efficiency initiative (-10% target, ongoing)• Introduced and rolled out successfully group standards in facility management and housekeeping• Negotiated and delivered tax ruling for brand, procurement and services entity, leading to savings of 3% of net profitKey responsibilities:• Build up and lead the newly formed service organisation with a total of 35 staff spanning across the following functions: IT, Group Procurement, Group Facility Management, Corporate Services and Sustainability, Functional Lead Gastronomy, Functional Lead Housekeeping• Harmonising and improving standards across the Group for ONE Tertianum, increasing service quality for our guests and employees, deliver efficiencies across the operating model• Lead the Group’s strategy process and ESG agenda

Greater Zurich Area

Key achievements:• Streamlined the finance organisation and harmonised group wide finance processes (One Finance). Breaking down departmental silos and establishing responsible cross-team collaboration• Introduced a new, digital budgeting process• Successfully implemented cost-cutting programme to comply with bank covenants following the Covid pandemic• Professionalised and streamlined strategic risk management• Revised the IT strategy and realigned the IT department to enable strategy execution. Established of a group-wide IT SPOC with high customer satisfaction.• Developed the central purchasing strategy and established the procurement departmentKey responsibilities:• Leading the finance organisation as well as IT, purchasing and occupational health & safety with a total of 70 FTEs• Responsible for Group-wide risk management• Achieving the financial KPIs and strategic financial planFollowing a re-organisation of the executive board, merging two COO roles into one, creating a new service organisation, focussing responsibilities of CFO to finance only, I accepted the offer of the board of directors to build up the newly created service organisation as Chief Service Officer.

Zürich, Schweiz

Dextra Rechtsschutz AG was founded in 2013 as the first digital legal protection insurer in Switzerland. The Dextra brand is characterised by a keen sense of customer orientation and high service quality thanks to an extremely efficient insurance business organisation.Key achievements:• Delivered the 2021 financial plan on time including re-engineering of the planning process and increasing planning consistency• Established the investment management strategy (implementation ongoing) thereby optimising risk capital consumption and expected investment return• Increased profitability through unlocking 2% of liabilities from the balance sheet

Liechtenstein

ONE is a leading digital insurer. ONE offers P&C cover to retail customers at competitive prices. Its processes are fully digital. Consumers can buy a cover within 3 minutes. Claims are frequently paid out on the same day. ONE sells its products through brokers and digital ecosystems complemented by some direct sales.ONE's vision is to provide consumers with a ONE policy that covers all risks and dynamically and automatically adjusts to changing lifestyles and requirements. The ONE policy will substitute all existing insurance coverage.Key achievements:• Drove 40x year-on-year business growth, scaling the finance and actuarial function to support continuous growth trajectory• Built out finance and actuarial team from 5 to 18 staff in 8 months, established and hired critical functions such as controlling, business intelligence, risk management, insourced actuarial function• Delivered solvency capital savings of 15%, improving Solvency capital ratios• Supported capital raising activities to close series B round of 125 Mio. EUR• Defined and rolled-out key performance indicators across the organisation, established real time reporting on them• Sponsored business expansion to Poland including commercial negotiation with largest distribution partner in Poland• Incurred no audit or risk findings (auditor: PwC)

Zürich Area, Switzerland

BlackRock is the world's largest asset manager, with $8.67 trillion in assets under management as of January 2021. BlackRock operates globally with 70 offices in 30 countries and clients in 100 countries. BlackRock’s purpose is to helping clients, employees, shareholders and communities achieve long-term, financial well-being.Key achievements:• Raised $160m net new assets equalling $1.5m net new revenue to the firm from both new and existing clients (private banks, IFA, single and multi-family offices). Flows in liquid and illiquid assets.• Built up trusted relationships with the product development teams at all relevant life insurance companies in Switzerland. Developed and pitched new investment propositions for Swiss life insurance companies with investment banks.Responsibilities:• Sales director with net new assets and revenue responsibility on designated client book and market regions for distribution of BlackRock’s actively managed mutual funds.• Segment leader for the Swiss insurance sector for the unit-linked life insurance market

London, United Kingdom

Key achievements:• Achieved stabilisation of relationship with one of BlackRock’s top 100 clients within first seven months in role, increased revenue by 20% and delivered strategically important restructuring of investment proposition for the client• Increased revenue and net new assets by 20+% across the assigned client baseResponsibilities:• Relationship and key account manager for insurance clients within EMEA – full accountability of account development on net new money and net revenue, stakeholder management from BoD, CIO, CFO, investment function on asset management, risk management, regulatory matters• Deputy of the Head of Client Service in FIG EMEA (team of 30 staff), led 4 account teams with 10 staff

England

Zurich is a leading multi-line insurer that serves its customers in global and local markets. With about 53,000 employees, it provides a wide range of property and casualty, and life insurance products and services in more than 210 countries and territories. Zurich’s customers include individuals, small businesses, and mid-sized and large companies, as well as multinational corporations. The Group is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, where it was founded in 1872.Key achievements:• Delivered annual investment income of GBP 170m in line with plan• Developed and implemented capital, treasury and investment solutions of a £1.8bn portfolio transfer, leading external asset managers, custodian, internal accounting team through the transaction• Re-negotiated terms and conditions with operational banks leading to immediate cost savings of 25%• Drove process improvements in my teams with an averaged 15 % productivity increase in one year• Championed training of 40+ colleagues across finance in lean management, achieving significant time savings and operational risk reduction - the finance function got recognised by Zurich’s Group CFO for building out its lean capabilities• No audit or risk findings (auditor: PwC)Responsibilities:• Responsible for financial close, forecasting, planning and monthly reporting in UK & Irish GAAP, IFRS of investments, treasury and reinsurance• Leading a department of 20 FTEs spanning across three teams• Accountable for all capital management, investment, treasury and reinsurance matters for the UK branch and 10+ smaller UK legal entities, managing investment assets of GBP 5.5bn multi asset multi currencies, cash flows of GBP 3.6bn annually in 72 currencies on the balance sheet, reinsurance premium of GBP 40m, partnerships with five external asset managers, four money market fund providers, two main banks for operational cash and banking, internal stakeholders in the UK, EMEA and on Group level.

Zurich

Key achievements:• Drove process improvements for the General Insurance’s (GI) global closing process. This led to time savings and standardisation across the layers benefiting 40+ business units• Delivered the cost center forecasting and planning process for an expense base of $160m of GI’s central functions, business partnered and negotiated with CxOs to keep expense base in line with overall target• Developed and implemented the Reinsurance target operating model, including the management of eleven work streams with 100+ employees involved across four continents. Successfully delivered the program ahead of scheduleResponsibilities:• Project manager for Global General Insurance CFO• Transformation program manager for Group Reinsurance CFO/COO

PwC is one of the world’s largest providers of Assurance, Advisory, Tax and Legal as well as Digital Services with more than 250,000 employees in 158 countries. Key achievements:• Restucturing of the finance department of a Swiss enterprise with 5’000 employees, defining and delivering KPI and reporting structure, establishing myself as SME of the financial data model and C-Level KPI reporting • Liquidation of a leading international investment bank in Switzerland: Lead the liquidation of the branch in Curaçao, coordinating a cross functional team of lawyers, tax experts, accountants, investment bankers. Managed the project management office with 7 sub-projects spanning over 20 staff. Led liquidation process of bonds in a distressed market. Valued complex equity derivatives.

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Master Of Arts In Business Administration (Lic.Oec.Publ), Business Administration

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