SCOR, the Paris-headquartered global reinsurance company, has promoted Philipp Rüede to Group Chief Financial Officer (CFO), taking over from François de Varenne, with new roles also announced for Pilar Santamaria Cases and Laure Forgeron.
These changes are part of SCOR’s Forward 2026 plan, which is in its final year as the reinsurer plans its next strategic cycle, to be unveiled in December 2026. In this context, and as part of the ongoing transformation of the past few years, SCOR has made numerous changes to its Executive Committee.
Rüede has served as the CEO of SCOR Life & Health since June 1st, 2025, where he successfully led the ongoing transformation of the L&H business. In his new role as Group CFO, he succeeds François de Varenne, who will step down as Group CFO and Deputy CEO on March 7th, 2026, to become Senior Advisor to the CEO on the same date. He will remain responsible for closing the Q4 2025 accounts and the 2025 annual accounts.
Rüede has over two decades of experience in banking and reinsurance. He began his career in 1999 in the Equity Derivatives Structuring and Trading department at Bank Vontobel in Zurich. For a decade, he was Global Co-Head of Equity Derivatives Structuring at CS First Boston. After this, he became a Partner at the Swiss electronic trading company Arbillon Capital AG.
He entered the reinsurance industry in 2013, joining Swiss Re in Zurich as Head of Reinsurance Capital Management, overseeing the optimisation of capital efficiency within the Group. From 2015 to 2019, he led a dedicated team as Global Head of P&C Structured Solutions. In 2019, he was appointed Head of the newly formed Alternative Capital Partners team, collaborating across P&C and L&H re/insurance lines to proactively manage risk limits and enhance the company’s flexible capital structure.
Pilar Santamaria Cases, currently Head of L&H Continental Europe and Latin America at the firm, has been appointed CEO of SCOR L&H and member of the Group Executive Committee. She will also transition into her new role on March 7th, 2026. She began her career in 2000 as a Pricing Actuary at Gerling and subsequently joined the Spanish branch of Revios as a Marketing Actuary, before its acquisition by SCOR in 2006.
In 2012, she was appointed Head of Iberia, overseeing Life & Health Reinsurance Solutions in the Spanish and Portuguese markets. From 2017 onward, she expanded her international responsibilities, first leading the Central and Southern European markets and the Middle East, and later, in 2019, Western Europe and Latin America. Since 2024, she has served as Head of Continental Europe and Latin America for L&H.
Forgeron joined SCOR on January 5th, 2026, as P&C Global Chief Underwriting Officer, reporting to Jean-Paul Conoscente, CEO of SCOR P&C, and joins the Group Executive Committee. She began her career at Swiss Re in 2009, progressing through underwriting and client management roles in Paris and Zurich.
She has held several leadership positions, including Head of Casualty Treaty Underwriting for Globals and Western Europe, and Head of Property & Casualty Facultative EMEA. In 2023, she was appointed CUO Casualty at Swiss Re in New York.
Thierry Léger, CEO of SCOR, commented on the appointments, “Following his successful integration within the company, I am delighted that I can continue to count on Philipp in his new role as Group Chief Financial Officer. Philipp brings in-depth knowledge of the financial mechanisms that underpin our business, notably in Treasury, ALM and capital management – areas that are central to our priorities for the years ahead. His contribution will be key to the success of our next strategic plan, which will be presented to the market in December 2026. This new plan will build on the progress achieved under Forward 2026, leveraging the strong platform we have established in recent years.
“I am also very pleased to welcome Pilar and Laure to our Executive Committee. With more than 25 years of experience in the life reinsurance sector, including 20 years at SCOR, Pilar brings the skills and leadership necessary to finalise the transformation of the L&H business, ensuring its profitability in a sustainable way. This promotion reflects the depth of the Group’s talent pool and demonstrates SCOR’s commitment to fostering professional growth and long-term career development.”
He continued, “I am equally pleased to welcome Laure to our Group. With more than 15 years of recognised international experience in property and casualty reinsurance, her mission is to define and drive the P&C underwriting and portfolio strategy across reinsurance, insurance, alternative solutions, and facultative business. Together with her team, she will ensure excellence in risk assessment and underwriting, while bringing strategic insights to the market team to drive performance.
“Fabrice Brégier and the entire Board of Directors join me in expressing our gratitude to François, who has played a pivotal role in SCOR’s development over the past two decades. As founder and first CEO of the Group’s portfolio management company, now SCOR Investment Partners, François has made a significant contribution to the transformation and modernisation of the Group, especially over the past three years at the helm of Finance. I wish him every success in the next stage of his career. I wish Philipp, Pilar and Laure every success in their new roles and look forward to working with this strengthened Executive Committee to continue implementing the Group’s transformation and harness its full potential.”
As of March 7th, 2026, the SCOR Executive Committee will include: Thierry Léger, CEO of SCOR, Jean-Paul Conoscente, CEO of SCOR P&C, Claudia Dill, Group Chief Operating Officer, Laure Forgeron, P&C Global CUO, Claire Le Gall-Robinson, Group Chief Corporate Officer and Group General Secretary, Claire McDonald, CEO of SCOR Business Solutions, Redmond Murphy, Deputy CEO of SCOR L&H, Philipp Rüede, Group Chief Financial Officer, Pilar Santamaria Cass, CEO of SCOR L&H, and Fabian Uffer, Group Chief Risk Officer.
