Our founders
The founders of CIG Pannónia Life Insurance Plc. (at the time of its foundation CIG Central European Life Insurance Ltd) include highly respected individuals of Hungarian origin as well as foreign and Hungarian institutions.
Some of our founders, their offices and business interests at the time of founding or earlier:
Founder of the Budapest Stock Exchange, Deputy CEO of Budapest Bank, Deputy Minister of Finance, President of the Hungarian Banking Supervisory Office, investment banker in London, CEO of Hungarian Credit Bank, President of the Budapest Stock Exchange, Minister of Finance, President of the Hungarian Central Bank, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Hungarian National Bank since 16 November 2010, former Chairman of the Company’s first Supervisory Board.
Senior instructor and branch manager at State Insurance Company, Sales Director of Hungária Insurance Company, CEO of Gloria Swiss Life, Deputy Chairman and CEO of Nationale-Nederlanden Insurance Company, and founder, Chairman and CEO of AVIVA Life Insurance Company.
He has been managing director of Axel Springer Budapest Publishing Ltd. then Ringier Axel Springer Hungary Ltd., member of the Company’s Supervisory Board.
Széchenyi Prize-winning Hungarian doctor, biochemist, university professor, full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Former founders and executives of the BROKERNET Group.
Former Vice President of Chase Manhattan Bank, consultant for numerous prestigious financial institutions, former special consultant to Lehman Brothers and the OECD.
Former Hungarian Ambassador to London.
Former Head of the Life Insurance Department of OTP Garancia Life Insurance Company, former Lead Actuary, Head of Product Development and CEO of CIG Pannónia Life Insurance.
Dentist.
Former Chief Financial Officer of the Company.
Art historian, owner of the Kieselbach Gallery.
Former spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, currently head of the EU mission of the Imperial Tobacco Group (ITG) in Brussels.
Owner of a newspaper publishing company, journalist, one of the founders of the BSE.
One of the largest investment banks in the world (filed for bankruptcy protection on 15 September 2008)
Former CEO of MÁV and former managing director of MOL.
International lawyer, former foreign minister.
Former Associate Professor and Vice-Dean at the University of Economic Sciences, Director of Finance and Product Development and Deputy CEO at Nationale-Nederlanden Insurance Company, Chairman and CEO of Winterthur Insurance Rt., Deputy CEO of AVIVA Life Insurance Zrt., former General Deputy CEO of the Company.
Former spokesman and Head of Communications of the Hungarian National Bank.
Former lead economist of the Hungarian Army, member of the Supervisory Board of Concorde Értékpapír Rt., owner of KAPTÁR Investment Zrt. (one of the founders of the Company).
Vodafone’s former Chief Commercial Officer.
Lawyer, one of the founders of the BSE, investor, former Chairman of the Board of Directors of Budapesti Ingatlanhasznosító és Fejlesztő Részvénytársaság (Budapest Property Usage and Development Corporation).
Founder and owner of the S+H companies, member of the first Supervisory Board of the Company.
Former Chairman and CEO of Matáv and Magyar Telekom.
Former Hungarian representative of the International Monetary Fund, Deputy Chairman of the Hungarian National Bank, former member of the Board of Directors of OTP Bank Nyrt.
Former deputy CEO of the Company.
