Members of the Supervisory Board as of 31 December 2016

Günter Geyer

Chair
Year of birth: 1943
Date first appointed: 2014
End of current term of office: 2019

Günter Geyer joined Wiener Städtische in 1974 and was appointed to the Managing Board in 1988. In 2001, he became General Manager and Chair of the Managing Board. Working in a variety of positions in Austria and the CEE region, he played a major role in VIG’s development into a successful international insurance group. Günther Geyer resigned from his position as Chair of the Managing Board of Vienna Insurance Group effective 31 May 2012 and has held the position of Chair of the Supervisory Board since 2014. He is Chair of the Managing Board of Wiener Städtische Wechselseitiger Versicherungsverein, the principal shareholder of Vienna Insurance Group.

Karl Skyba

1^st Deputy Chair (until 30 April 2017)
Year of birth: 1939
Date first appointed: 1992
End of current term of office: 2019

Karl Skyba began working with the City of Vienna after graduating from high school in 1957, and his career path took him through a wide variety of positions in the local administration of the City of Vienna. After completing part-time law studies, he held the position of General Manager of the Vienna public utilities from 1991 to the end of 2002.

Maria Kubitschek

2^nd Deputy Chair (since 6 September 2016)
Year of birth: 1962
Date first appointed: 2014
End of current term of office: 2019

After completing her studies in social sciences and economics at the University of Vienna, Maria Kubitschek began working for the Vienna Chamber of Labour in 1988. After holding a variety of management positions, she was the Head of the Economic Division of the Vienna Chamber of Labour starting in 2001, with a short interruption from 2011-2013 (management position in the cabinet of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology), and has been Deputy Director of the Vienna Chamber of Labour since in 2016. She is also a Member of the Managing Board of the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO).

Bernhard Backovsky

Year of birth: 1943
Date first appointed: 2002
End of current term of office: 2019

Bernhard Backovsky was ordained as a priest in 1967 and chosen as the 66th provost of Klosterneuburg Monastery in December 1995, a position that he still holds today. He has also been Abbott President of the Canons Regular of the Lateran Congregation of Austria since 18 October 2002 and was Abbott Primate of the Confederation of the Canons Regular of St. Augustine from 19 October 2010 to 16 October 2016. In addition to numerous other honours, at the end of 2010 he received the Grand Decoration of Honour in Silver for Services Rendered to the Republic of Austria for supporting the Foundation for Street Children in Romania. VIG has been a partner of Klosterneuburg Monastery for many years. The former provost of the monastery, Gaudenz Dunkler, was one of the founding fathers of “Wechselseitige k.k. priv. Brandschaden-Versicherungs-Anstalt“ in 1824, which subsequently developed into Wiener Städtische Versicherungsverein and then into Wiener Städtische and VIG.

Martina Dobringer

Year of birth: 1947
Date first appointed: 2011
End of current term of office: 2019

Martina Dobringer has held management positions in the Coface Group since 1989 and was General Manager and Chair of the Managing Board of Coface Austria Holding AG from 2001 to 2011. In 2011, she was awarded the Grand Decoration of Honour in Silver for Services Rendered to the Republic of Austria and in 2006 became the first Austrian businesswoman to receive the highest French decoration (“Chevalier dans l’ordre de la Légion”).

Rudolf Ertl

Year of birth: 1946
Date first appointed: 2014
End of current term of office: 2019

Rudolf Ertl has a Doctor of Laws degree and has been with the Group since 1972. He was a Member of the Managing Board of Wiener Städtische until the end of 2008 and Member of the Managing Board of Donau Versicherung until June 2009. He is a Member of the Managing Board of Wiener Städtische Wechselseitiger Versicherungsverein, the principal shareholder of Vienna Insurance Group.

Heinz Öhler

Year of birth: 1945
Date first appointed: 2002
End of current term of office: 2019

Heinz Öhler joined the Tyrolean Regional Health Insurance Fund in 1990, where he initially acted as Manager of the Finance Department and later held an executive position until 2011. Handball has been one of his passions since he was a child and he has held many positions in the sports world, including being appointed as a Member of the Tyrolean State Sports Council in November 2016.

Reinhard Ortner †

Year of birth: 1949
Date first appointed: 2007

Reinhard Ortner died unexpectedly at the age of 68 on 21 January 2017. He had been a Member of the Supervisory Board since 2007 (Wiener Städtische and then Vienna Insurance Group). Reinhard Ortner worked in a variety of management positions in Erste Group during the entire 45 years of his professional career. He was highly appreciated for his humanity and consistently fair treatment of business partners and colleagues. We remember him with great respect and admiration.

Georg Riedl

Year of birth: 1959
Date first appointed: 2014
End of current term of office: 2019

After completing his legal studies at the University of Vienna, Georg Riedl has worked as an independent lawyer since 1991. His areas of specialisation include company law, mergers and acquisitions, private foundation law and tax law.

Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell

Year of birth: 1952
Date first appointed: 2012
End of current term of office: 2019

Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell was Vice Governor of the National Bank of Austria (OeNB) from 1998 to 2003 and Member of its Board of Directors from 1997 to 2003. During this period, she was also the Austrian Vice Governor to the International Monetary Fund and a Member of the Economic and Financial Committee, the most important economic policy advisory committee of the European Union. Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell was responsible for the Economics and Financial Markets portfolios at the National Bank of Austria. From 2003 to 2011, she was a Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank.