Athora, a European savings and retirement services group, has appointed Michael Koller as Group Chief Risk Officer, succeeding Lukas Ziewer, who stepped down from the role in May.
Koller has more than three decades of industry experience and was most recently CRO at MS Amlin.
Before this, he was Group Risk Director at Prudential plc for almost ten years, where he also served as a member of key subsidiary Board Audit and Risk Committees.
Prior to joining Prudential plc, Koller served as CRO for Aviva’s European operations where he built and led the risk team.
Koller, who will become a member of Athora’s Management Committee subject to regulatory approval, is joined at Athora by Chantal Waight, who has recently taken up the role of Managing Director of Group Risk.
Waight has twenty-five years of insurance industry experience, the last fifteen of which were at M&G plc and Prudential plc, most recently as Director of Strategy & Corporate Development for M&G plc and Director of Investor Relations for Prudential plc.
According to Athora, she also brings deep experience in investment markets through her senior roles at M&G Investments.
The firm suggests that these appointments follow a “transformational” 12 months for Athora, in which it completed acquisitions in Italy and Belgium, signed a large acquisition in Germany, raised approximately €2.75bn of Common Equity Capital, and completed its inaugural bond issuance in public capital markets.
Mike Wells, Group CEO of Athora commented, “Robust risk management is central to our business model. The appointments of Michael and Chantal add two seasoned senior leaders to our risk function.
“They join Athora at an exciting inflexion point and will each play an important role as we prepare for the next phase of our growth and maturity journey.”
