Managing Board
The VIG Holding Managing Board had the following six members as of 31 December 2023: Hartwig Löger (General Manager (CEO), Managing Board Chairman), Peter Höfinger (Deputy General Manager, Deputy Managing Board Chairman), Liane Hirner (CFRO), Gerhard Lahner (COO), Gábor Lehel (CIO) and Harald Riener.
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Hartwig Löger
General Manager (CEO), 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: Leading the VIG Group, Strategy, General Secretariat & Legal, Opportunity Management, Human Resources, Subsidiaries and M&A, CO3, European Affairs, Sponsoring
Country responsibilities: Austria, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary
Peter Höfinger
Deputy General Manager, Deputy Chairman of the Managing Board
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
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 role of CFO as of 1 July 2018 and additionally the role of Chief Risk Officer as of 1 January 2020. In 2019, EIOPA appointed Liane Hirner as a new member of the Insurance & Reinsurance Stakeholder Group (IRSG).
Areas of responsibility: Group Finance & Regulatory Reporting, Risk Management, Planning and Controlling, Tax Reporting & Transfer Pricing
Country responsibilities: Germany, Liechtenstein
Supervisory board positions or comparable positions in other Austrian and foreign companies outside the Group: Autoneum Holding AG – Winterthur, Switzerland
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), Data & Analytics, Group Treasury & Capital Management, Process & Project Management, VIG IT
Country responsibility: Georgia, Türkiye
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: Assistance, New Businesses, Transformation & Research
Country responsibilities: Belarus
Supervisory board positions or comparable positions in other Austrian and foreign companies outside the Group: Global Assistance Georgia LLC
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: Retail Insurance & Business Support, Customer Experience
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
The Managing Board as a whole is responsible for the compliance agendas (incl. AML), Internal Audit, Investor Relations and Actuarial Services. The curriculum vitae of the members of the Managing Board are available on the website at group.vig/management.
Changes during and after the reporting year
Elisabeth Stadler (year of birth: 1961) served as Chairwoman of the Managing Board of VIG Holding in the 2023 financial year from 1 January 2023 to 30 June 2023. She resigned from the Managing Board after the end of her term of office effective 30 June 2023. Hartwig Löger succeeded Elisabeth Stadler as Chairman of the Managing Board of VIG Holding effective 1 July 2023. Peter Höfinger was named Deputy Chairman of the Managing Board. Peter Thirring (year of birth: 1957) served as Member of the Managing Board of VIG Holding in the 2023 financial year from 1 January 2023 to 30 June 2023. He resigned from the Managing Board after the end of his term of office on 30 June 2023. Mr. Thirring has been a Member of the Supervisory Board of VIG Holding since 1 July 2023. Christoph Rath (year of birth: 1976) was appointed as a Deputy Member of the Managing Board of VIG with effect from 1 September 2024 (end of term of office: 30 June 2027)