Media release ,  10.11.2022

Generali Switzerland combines its core business, led by Ralph Schmid 

Generali Switzerland is taking the next step towards digital, customer-focused transformation. Its Life & Pension and Non-Life departments are being merged under the leadership of Ralph Schmid. 

Adliswil – In early September 2022, Generali Switzerland crucially repositioned itself and reduced its Executive Board from eleven to eight members. This reorganisation will further advance the strategy, communicated in January 2022, to become the leading insurance company for private customers and small and medium-sized companies in the property insurance and private pension segments by 2027. As part of this reorganisation, Chief Life & Pension Officer, Ralph Schmid, assumed responsibility for the NonLife department on a temporary basis.

Generali Switzerland is now embarking on the next stage of its journey towards transforming and combining its core business. With immediate effect, its Life & Pension and Non-Life departments are being merged under the leadership of Ralph Schmid (Chief Insurance Officer).

Christoph Schmallenbach, CEO of Generali Switzerland: “Over the past two and a half months, Ralph Schmid has laid the foundations and set the wheels in motion, together with his team. By combining our intrinsic insurance business, we’re taking another major step towards our goal of being a life-long partner for our customers. It also allows us to initiate the right solutions, services and processes in close collaboration with Sales and Marketing. In other words, we’ll speak with one voice in future.”

Ralph Schmid has been Chief Life & Pension Officer at Generali Switzerland since January 2020. He previously held the role of Group Head of Unit-Linked Savings & Pensions at the Generali Group for several years. Prior to that, he spent 12 years in various positions at Generali Switzerland.

With immediate effect, Generali Switzerland’s Executive Board will be composed of the following seven members: Christoph Schmallenbach (CEO), Alessio Sarti (CFO), Ralph Schmid (Chief Insurance Officer), Sepp Ruchti (Chief Distribution Officer), Andreas Schlögl (Chief Transformation and Operation Officer), Jean-Pierre Schmid (Chief Human Resources & Organization Officer) and Philipp Keller (Chief Risk Officer).