Germany headquartered manager and insurer of cyber risks, COGITANDA Dataprotect AG, has appointed Jens Lison as a member of the Executive Board and Group Chief Insurance Officer (CIO), effective 1st September 2023.
Currently, the Executive Team consists of Jörg Wälder, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Christian Sagawe, Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Christian Rink, Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
The addition of Lison, who will be based in the firm’s Cologne headquarters, marks the expansion of the company’s Executive Board.
Jörg Wälder, Founder and CEO, commented: “With Jens Lison, another top manager is joining COGITANDA. He is an important addition for the existing Executive Board.
“We are measuring ourselves against the best in the insurance market: while we are further consolidating the leading position we have already achieved in the area of classic technical risks and the so-called cyber risks, we will now rapidly expand our product range, open up further customer segments and, after Germany, Austria and France, expand into other European markets.”
Lison is a market veteran with four decades of insurance industry experience. His remit in his new role will include taking over the group-wide professional management and further expansion of the insurance division of COGITANDA domestically and internationally.
Lison began his career at Allianz, and he has also held various senior positions in companies like AXA, Zurich, and Württembergische Versicherung. For the last 15 years, he has been an Executive Board member and fundamentally contributed to shaping the development of these insurance groups in Germany.
Most recently, he served as a member of the Executive Board and CUO at Württembergische Versicherung AG. He successfully implemented a strategy programme for the realignment of the Property & Casualty business segment in the role.
Albrecht Freiherr von Boeselager, Chairman of the COGITANDA Supervisory Board, said: “We are very pleased about the addition of Jens Lison on-board to the COGITANDA executive board, as yet another entrepreneurial and very experienced top executive. He is deeply rooted in the insurance industry and will now bring his experience, knowledge and commitment to COGITANDA.”
On his new role, Lison said: “The insurance industry is my professional home. In recent years I have been particularly involved in commercial and industrial corporate customer business and have successfully expanded these business areas. In this context, I have also dealt intensively with the cyber and technical insurance lines. I am fascinated by the challenge of making technical risks manageable. I have already successfully worked with Jörg Wälder for many years at Zurich – I am looking forward to continuing this at COGITANDA.”
Wälder also commented on the company’s growth: “The combination of risk prevention, insurance protection and professional claims handling has proven itself. We are now entering the next phase of development, which is characterized by the increasing professionalisation and internationalisation of our business model. To this end, we bring together the best experts on the market under the umbrella of COGITANDA. That’s why Jens Lison and COGITANDA perfectly match.”
“The national and Europe-wide expansion is progressing. With the market entry in Spain, Portugal and Italy, then the Scandinavian countries and Benelux, we will now roll out our services step by step throughout Europe,” he concluded.
