Raymund Breu

Member of the Board of Directors (non-executive, independent)

Mr Breu, a Swiss citizen born in 1945, graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich with a doctorate in mathematics.

Mr Breu is Chief Financial Officer of the Novartis Group and a member of that company’s executive committee, positions he assumed when Novartis was created in December 1996. He joined the group treasury of Sandoz, a predecessor company of Novartis, in 1975. Ten years later, he was appointed CFO of Sandoz Corporation in New York. In 1990, he became group treasurer of Sandoz Ltd and, in 1993, head of group finance and a member of the Sandoz executive board.

Mr Breu was elected to Swiss Re’s Board of Directors in 2003. He was re-elected in 2007 for a further four-year term of office. In addition, Mr Breu serves on the Swiss Takeover Board.

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