A new general manager and chairman of the board is set to take over at Aviva životní pojiš?ovna from 1 February 2009. Karel Veselý, formerly the commercial manager, is taking the reins from Stephen Marini.
A new general manager and chairman of the board is set to take over at Aviva životní pojišťovna from 1 February 2009. Karel Veselý, formerly the commercial manager, is taking the reins from Stephen Marini, who is moving to the Aviva Group's European management team, where he will be responsible for product development for the whole European region.
Aviva is in the final stages of the move to a single brand name, which is intended to boost its competitiveness in global terms.
Karel Veselý has been working for Aviva since the company moved into the Czech market in 1997 (at that stage still operating as Commercial Union). He was in charge of a number of product development-related projects from 2000 to 2005 as senior actuary, including for example Talisman, the successful children's insurance plan. At the end of 2005 he became commercial manager and gained a seat on the board of directors, with responsibility for the internal sales team, the main distribution channel in the Czech Republic. Under his leadership over the past two years, Aviva's sales team in the Czech Republic has increased the volume of sales by almost 40%.
"Our aim is to continue with the development of top-quality life insurance products," Karel Veselý, the new general manager at Aviva životní pojišťovna, outlines the company's strategy.
"Another of our priorities is to support distribution channels and of course our internal sales team, but we are also keen to develop cooperation with external sales networks," he adds.
Karel Veselý graduated from the Mathematics and Physics Faculty of Charles University in Prague, where he completed his Masters in 1997, followed by an MPhil in 2001 and finally a PhD in theoretical physics in 2002. The main focus of his research was Einstein's theory of relativity and he has contributed a number of specialist articles on this topic to foreign journals and publications. He is a full member of the Czech Society of Actuaries and is on the directory of insurance actuaries published by the Czech National Bank.
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For more information please contact:
Milan Starý, Marketing Manager
Aviva životní pojišťovna, as
E-mail: milan.stary@avivazp.cz