Swiss Re Ltd. announced that Group Chief Operating Officer Thomas Wellauer to retire at the end of June 2019. As the company announced on 29 September 2018, Andreas Berger, previously Chief Regions & Markets Officer and Member of the Board of Management of Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE, is appointed CEO Corporate Solutions and member of the Group Executive Committee. He will start with Swiss Re already on 1 March 2019, one month earlier.