Gottfried Wanitschek, Member of the Management Board; Karl Unger, Member of the Management Board; Konstantin Klien, Chairman of the Management Board; Andreas Brandstetter, Vice Chairman of the Management Board; Hannes Bogner, Member of the Management Board
Konstantin Klien
Chairman of the Management Board
- Born 1951
- Academic background: Economics
Dr. Klien joined the UNIQA Group in October 2000 as Vice Chairman of the Management Board. Since 1 January 2002, he has been Chairman of the Management Board and CEO of UNIQA Versicherungen AG. Dr. Klien began his professional career at Arthur Andersen and transferred to Nordstern Versicherung in 1978, where he was appointed to the Management Board in 1986. In 1991, he became Chairman of the Board of the holding company AXA Austria and also exercised executive functions for the AXA companies in Central Europe since 1995.
- Responsible for: Group management, sales, planning and controlling, human resources, marketing, communications, investor relations, internal auditing
- Country responsibility: Austria
Andreas Brandstetter
Vice Chairman of the Management Board
- Born 1969
- Academic background: Political science, business administration
Dr. Brandstetter joined the Group in 1997 and was responsible for the restructuring of UNIQA Versicherungen AG in 1999; he was appointed to the Management Board in 2002. Before that, he was head of the EU office of the Austrian Raiffeisenverband in Brussels and completed the MBA programme at the California State University.
- Responsible for: New markets, mergers & acquisitions, bank sales policy
- Country responsibility: Albania, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Ukraine
Hannes Bogner
Member of the Management Board
- Born 1959
- Academic background: Business administration
Hannes Bogner has been with the UNIQA Group since 1994 and was appointed to the Management Board in 1998. Prior to this, he worked at THS Treuhand Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft in Salzburg and at PwC PricewaterhouseCoopers in Vienna. Mr. Bogner became a tax consultant in 1988 and a chartered accountant in 1993.
- Responsible for: Group accounting, planning and controlling, asset management (back office), investor relations, industry customers and reinsurance policy
- Country responsibility: Germany, Italy, Poland, Switzerland
Karl Unger
Member of the Management Board
- Born 1953
- Academic background: Actuarial mathematics
Karl Unger began his professional career in 1979 as an actuary at Volksfürsorge Versicherung. He later transferred to Nordstern Versicherung, where he was appointed to the Management Board in 1994 and took over the life insurance department. In 1999, Karl Unger took on responsibility for Central Europe within the AXA Group. He switched to UNIQA in 2001 as head of the administrative department for corporate planning and joined the Management Board of UNIQA Versicherungen AG in 2002.
- Responsible for: Private customer business, IT, company organisation, customer service, Group actuarial office, risk management
- Country responsibility: Hungary, Liechtenstein, Slovakia
Gottfried Wanitschek
Member of the Management Board
- Born 1955
- Academic background: Law
Dr. Wanitschek started working in the insurance business back in the eighties and was first head of the legal office and later secretary general of Raiffeisen Versicherung AG. From 1991 until he was appointed to the Management Board of UNIQA Versicherungen AG in 1997, he was director of the holding company Leipnik-Lundenburger Industrie AG, managing director of Kurier GmbH, member of the executive management at Mediaprint and director of Zeitschriften-Verlagsbeteiligungs-AG.
- Responsible for: Asset management (front office), equity holdings, property management, legal affairs, general administration, internal auditing
- Country responsibility: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic
