Roger Matthes (45) has been with Baloise since 1983. Most recently he headed the Baloise 2012 Programme Office, where he successfully completed the development of the Baloise 2012 strategy and oversaw the programme's implementation and efficiency controlling. Before that, he was Head of Private Customers Life Insurance for six years and Head of Private Customers Direct for around four years at Baloise Switzerland. A native of Switzerland, Roger Matthes holds a Swiss Federal Insurance Diploma and a Rochester-Bern Executive Master of Business Administration degree.

He will take over as CEO of Baloise Life (Liechtenstein) AG from Markus Jost, 51, who, after around one year with Baloise Life, will become Head of Life Insurance at Basler Versicherungen in Germany, as a member of the Board of Directors, from January 2013.

Resolutions on these appointments still need to be approved by the supervisory authorities.

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