Managing Board

Hartwig Löger

General Manager (CEO), Chairman of the Managing Board

Year of birth: 1965
Date first appointed: 01/01/2021
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 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 VIG Group, Strategy, General Secretariat & Legal, Opportunity Management, Human Resources, CO³

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: 01/01/2009
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, European Affairs, Sponsoring

Country responsibilities: Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania

Liane Hirner

CFRO

Year of birth: 1968
Date first appointed: 01/02/2018
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. On 1 July 2018, she took over the role of Chief Financial Officer and on 1 January 2020, she additionally assumed the role of Chief Risk Officer. In 2019, EIOPA appointed Liane Hirner as a member of the Insurance & Reinsurance Stakeholder Group (IRSG).

Areas of responsibility: Group Finance & Regulatory Reporting, Group Actuarial, Planning and Controlling, Risk Management, Tax Reporting & Transfer Pricing, Subsidiaries and Transaction Management

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: 01/01/2020
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), Group Treasury & Capital Management, Process & Project Management, VIG IT

Country responsibilities: Georgia, Türkiye

Supervisory board positions or comparable positions in other Austrian and foreign companies outside the Group: Wiener Börse AG

Gábor Lehel

CIO

Year of birth: 1977
Date first appointed: 01/01/2020
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, Data & Analytics, Transformation & New Business

Country responsibilities: Belarus

Harald Riener

Year of birth: 1969
Date first appointed: 01/01/2020
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 VIG 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

Christoph Rath

Deputy Member of the Managing Board

Year of birth: 1976
Date first appointed: 01/09/2024
End of current term of office: 30 June 2027

Christoph Rath studied banking and finance at the University of Applied Sciences BFI Vienna and joined VIG Insurance Group in 2004, where he initially worked as an advisor of the Managing Board of Wiener Städtische Versicherung from 2004 until 2006 and as the General Secretary of Wiener Städtische Osiguranje in Serbia from 2006 until 2007. After that, he held various management positions at VIG, including as a Managing Board member in Serbia and Bulgaria. In addition, he served as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the Czech company Ceská Podnikatelská Pojišťovna from 2019 to 2024 and held the same position at the Czech company Kooperativa Pojišťovna from 2020 to 2024. Christoph Rath was appointed as a deputy member of the Managing Board of VIG Holding with effect from 1 September 2024.

Area of responsibility: RiskConsult

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