Bertrand Bougon becomes Head of Investor Relations & Rating Agencies

Press Release                                                      
28 October 2014                                           

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Marie-Laurence Bouchon                              +33 (0) 1 58 44 75 58
Group Head of Communications

Bertrand Bougon                                            +33 (0) 1 58 44 81 16
Head of Investor Relations & Rating Agencies

Bertrand Bougon becomes Head of Investor Relations
& Rating Agencies

SCOR announces the appointment of Bertrand Bougon, previously Deputy Head of Cash & Capital Management, as Head of Investor Relations and Rating Agencies.

After having successfully led SCOR's Investor Relations team for the last 5 years, Antonio Moretti is momentarily taking a senior advisory role reporting to Mark Kociancic, Group CFO, prior to his move to a new position within the SCOR group.

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Bertrand Bougon, 42, is an actuary and a graduate of Euro Institut d'Actuariat and the London Business School. He started his career with Rhodia Assurances, a Winterthur Group company, where he was Planning & Controlling Manager. He joined SCOR in 2005 as Group Management Controller. In 2008, he became Rating Agencies Director, a function that was subsequently extended to capital management. He was promoted to Deputy Head of Cash and Capital Management in 2013.

Antonio Moretti, 42, holds an executive MBA from HEC Paris and a 1st class BA (Hons) in Statistics and Econometrics from UWE Bristol and Grenoble University. He joined SCOR's Investor Relations department in July 2008 and was appointed IR Director in January 2010. Antonio started his (re)insurance career in 1998 with GE Insurance Solutions, holding diverse finance positions with European and global scope.

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