Managing Board

Elisabeth Stadler

General Manager (CEO), Chairwoman of the Managing Board

Year of birth: 1961
Date first appointed: 1 January 2016
End of current term of office: 30 June 2023

Elisabeth Stadler studied actuarial mathematics at the Vienna Technical University and began her career in the Austrian insurance industry as a Managing Board Member and Chairwoman. In May 2014, she was awarded the professional title of professor by Federal Minister Gabriele Heinisch-Hosek for her merits for the insurance industry. She held the position of General Manager at Donau Versicherung from September 2014 to March 2016, and has been CEO of VIG Holding since 2016.

Areas of responsibility: Management of the VIG Group, Strategy, Bancassurance and International Partnerships, Communications & Marketing, European Affairs and ESG, General Secretariat and Legal, Human Resources, Internal Audit, Sponsoring, Subsidiaries and M&A, Central Functions

Country responsibilities: Germany

Supervisory board positions or comparable positions in other Austrian and foreign companies outside the Group: OMV Aktiengesellschaft, voestalpine AG, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Austrian Red Cross

Hartwig Löger

Deputy General Manager, Deputy Chairman of the Managing Board

Year of birth: 1965
Date first appointed: 1 January 2021
End of current term of office: 30 June 2027

Hartwig Löger began his career in the insurance industry in the brokerage business in 1985. After completing his studies in insurance management at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, he joined Allianz as sales manager in Styria in 1989. From 1997 to 2002, he was head of sales at Donau Versicherung. This was followed by a number of senior management positions in the UNIQA Group, most recently as CEO of UNIQA Österreich AG until the end of November 2017. Hartwig Löger was the Minister of Finance for Austria from December 2017 to June 2019. He worked for VIG Insurance Group under an advisory agreement with Wiener Städtische Versicherungsverein, the principal shareholder of VIG Holding, from July 2019 to December 2020.

Areas of responsibility: Planning and Controlling, Strategy and Development

Country responsibilities: Austria, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary

Liane Hirner

CFRO

Year of birth: 1968
Date first appointed: 1 February 2018
End of current term of office: 30 June 2027

Liane Hirner studied business administration in Graz. Before joining VIG Insurance Group, she worked at PwC Austria’s audit department where she started in 1993, and when she left, Liane Hirner was partner in the insurance area. In addition to her work as an auditor, Liane Hirner has also been involved in many professional associations, such as the IFRS Working Group of the Austrian Insurance Association and the Insurance Working Party of Accountancy Europe in Brussels. Liane Hirner was appointed to the VIG Holding Managing Board on 1 February 2018. She assumed the position of Chief Financial Officer on 1 July 2018. In 2019, EIOPA appointed Liane Hirner as a new member of the Insurance & Reinsurance Stakeholder Group (IRSG).

Areas of responsibility: Asset Risk Management, Digitalisation, Finance and Risk, Enterprise Risk Management, Finance Department, Investor Relations

Country responsibilities: Liechtenstein

Supervisory board positions or comparable positions in other Austrian and foreign companies outside the Group: Autoneum Holding AG – Winterthur, Switzerland

Peter Höfinger

Year of birth: 1971
Date first appointed: 1 January 2009
End of current term of office: 30 June 2027

Peter Höfinger studied law at the University of Vienna and University of Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium). Peter Höfinger has been a member of the VIG Holding Managing Board since 1 January 2009. Prior to that, he was a director of the Managing Board at Donau Versicherung, responsible for sales and marketing. He joined this company in 2003. Previously, he held positions as managing board chairman and managing board member outside the Group in Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland.

Areas of responsibility: Corporate Business, Reinsurance

Country responsibilities: Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Croatia, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia

Gerhard Lahner

COO

Year of birth: 1977
Date first appointed: 1 January 2020
End of current term of office: 30 June 2027

Gerhard Lahner studied business administration at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and has held a variety of positions for VIG Insurance Group since 2002. He was a member of the Managing Boards of Austrian insurance companies Donau Versicherung and Wiener Städtische and Czech companies Kooperativa and ČPP. Gerhard Lahner was also a substitute member of the VIG Holding Managing Board from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019.

Areas of responsibility: Asset Management (incl. Real Estate), Holding IT, Process & Project Management, Treasury incl. Asset Liability Management, VIG Corporate IT

Country responsibilities: Georgia

Supervisory board positions or comparable positions in other Austrian and foreign companies outside the Group: Wien 3420 Aspern Development AG, Wiener Börse AG, Aktienforum

Gábor Lehel

CIO

Year of birth: 1977
Date first appointed: 1 January 2020
End of current term of office: 30 June 2027

Gábor Lehel studied business administration with a major in finance in Tatabánya and Budapest (Hungary). He joined VIG Insurance Group in 2003, where he worked in Controlling and as head of the General Secretariat at VIG Holding before being appointed to the Managing Board of the Hungarian insurance company UNION Biztosító in 2008. He was General Manager of UNION Biztosító from mid-2011 to 31 December 2019. From 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2019, he was also a substitute member of the VIG Holding Managing Board.

Areas of responsibility: Innovation

Country responsibilities: Belarus

Harald Riener

Year of birth: 1969
Date first appointed: 1 January 2020
End of current term of office: 30 June 2027

Harald Riener studied social and economic sciences at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and joined the insurance group in 1998, where he worked in the marketing area for Donau Versicherung and Wiener Städtische until 2001. After working for a media publishing company, he returned to the Group in 2006 as Marketing Manager of VIG Holding. He became a member of the Managing Board in Croatia in 2010, and was appointed CEO in 2012. From 2014 to 2019, Harald Riener was a member of the Managing Board of Donau Versicherung where he was responsible for distribution and marketing.

Areas of responsibility: Assistance, Customer Experience, Tool Box Sales

Country responsibilities: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine

Supervisory board positions or comparable positions in other Austrian and foreign companies outside the Group: VIG/C-QUADRAT

Peter Thirring

CTO

Year of birth: 1957
Date first appointed: 1 July 2018
End of current term of office: 30 June 2023

Peter Thirring studied law at the University of Vienna. He has used his more than 30 years of insurance experience in the Generali insurance group. He was General Manager of Donau Versicherung from March 2016 to the end of June 2018. Peter Thirring was appointed to the VIG Holding Managing Board on 1 July 2018.

Areas of responsibility: Actuarial Department, Active Reinsurance, Anti-Money Laundering, Compliance, Insurance Life/Non-Life Retail

Country responsibilities: Türkiye