Mr Martin Senn
Chief Executive Officer
Zurich Financial Services
Martin Senn (born 1957, Swiss Citizen) is Chief Executive Officer of Zurich Financial Services Ltd (Zurich). He joined Zurich as Chief Investment Officer in 2006
and at the same time became a member of the Group Executive Committee. He was
appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Group in August 2009, effective January 1,
2010.
Mr. Senn is a trained banker and has worked at the former Swiss Bank Corporation
from 1976 to 1994 where his international career steps included treasurer in Hong
Kong and regional treasurer for Asia and the Pacific region in Singapore before
ultimately managing the company’s Tokyo office. In 1994 he joined Credit Suisse
where his executive roles included that of treasurer for the Head Office and Europe,
chairman and turnaround manager of Credit Suisse Group Japan with a mandate to
restructure and reposition all legal entities of the Group in Japan. In 2001, he became a member of the Credit Suisse Banking executive board and was appointed
head of its Trading and Investment Services Division. From 2003 until 2006 he
served as a member of the corporate executive board and as chief investment officer
of the Swiss Life Group.
Mr. Senn is a member of the foundation board of Avenir Suisse and treasurer of the
Zurich Association of Economics. In addition he serves as the Honorary Consul of
the Republic of Korea in Zurich and a member of the board of directors of the
Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Senn is also a member of the Board of
the Geneva Association and of the Institute of International Finance (IIF). Besides
that, he is a representative of the Property and Casualty CEO Roundtable, a member
of the Pan European Insurance Forum (PEIF) and of the European Financial Services Roundtable (EFR). He was previously a member of the board of directors of
various banks and financial services institutions.
Mr. Senn received his commercial and banking diploma from the Business School in
Basel, Switzerland, and graduated from the International Executive Program at
INSEAD in Fontainebleau and the Advanced Management Program at Harvard
Business School.