Zurich has appointed a new leadership team for its board following last month's resignation of Josef Ackermann over the death of the company's chief financial officer Pierre Wauthier.
The insurer's ten-strong board of directors today appointed former non-executive director on the board of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) Tom de Swaan as chairman and Fred Kindle as vice-chairman. De Swaan served on the FSA's board from January 2001 until the end of 2006 when he joined Zurich's board. In March last year he was elected vice-chairman and he became acting chairman following Ackermann's resignation last month. Kindle, who is a partner at private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, joined Zurich's board in 2006 . Ackermann resigned days after the apparent su...
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