Aviva France, a major player in life insurance and long-term savings, non-life insurance and asset management, announces the appointment of Stéphane Camon as head of risk and member of the executive committee at Aviva France.
Aviva France, a major player in life insurance and long-term savings, non-life insurance and asset management, announces the appointment of Stéphane Camon as head of risk and member of the executive committee at Aviva France.
The appointment is part of a new phase in the expansion of the Aviva Group risk division, which is now separate from finance. Stéphane Camon will be responsible for continuing the deployment of Aviva Group Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) within French business units with a view to compliance with Solvency II.
ERM, which has already seen 36 group directives on risk implemented within Aviva France, is specifically designed to allow senior executives to develop and enhance management of the business based on the measurement and regular monitoring of its financial, insurance and operational risks. Accordingly, Stéphane Camon will also be in charge of coordinating the entire Solvency II project for Aviva France, in conjunction with Finance.
In his new role, Stéphane Camon will work closely with Mikael Koller, head of risk for Aviva Europe, whose team is already partly based at Aviva France headquarters in the context of Aviva’s pan-European organisation. He will also work closely with the pan-European finance team in charge of the Solvency II project, also based at Bois-Colombes.
Stéphane Camon takes over from Loïc Flichy, who successfully implemented key stages in the modernisation of the Aviva France risk division, mainly through the formalisation of risk processes and their governance within the business. Although involved in the skills transfer, in the next few weeks Loïc Flichy will join the management team of Nicolas Schimel, head of Aviva distribution, providing additional support for business development as part of the ambitious Distribution 2015 project. Loïc Flichy will bring his experience of networks and products to the role.
Jean-Pierre Menanteau, Aviva France CEO, said: “Deputy CEO Jean-Luc François and I are thrilled that Stéphane Camon will be joining us as we embark on the next stage in the development of the risk function. Optimising its risk culture will prepare Aviva France for Solvency II. Stéphane has talent, experience and evident skills as a manager.
"As for Loïc Flichy, we are enormously grateful for the work he has done and are sure that he will do justice to the new project development and management role, in support of the changes to our distribution format under the Distribution 2015 project headed by Nicolas Schimel”.
Stéphane Camon, 37, graduated in industrial art and design from ENSAM and started out as a project manager in 1998 with Mazars. In 2004 he became head of accounting, reporting and financial research at Swiss Life France, before being promoted to head of risk in 2007.
Loïc Flichy, 43, began his career in 1987 with General Accident in a number of roles where he had responsibility for accounting and finance, before becoming head of finance and accounting. In 1998 he was appointed finance director at Eurofil. In 1999 he joined AIG France as chief financial officer. He moved to Aviva France in 2002, where he was chief executive of Eurofil before becoming head of risk at Aviva France in 2005.
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About Aviva
Aviva is the world’s fifth-largest insurance group*, with more than 53 million customers across Europe, North America and the Asia-Pacific region. Aviva’s principal business activities are: life insurance and long-term savings, fund management and general insurance. As at 31 December 2009, Aviva had a total turnover of €51.3 billion, with €426 billion of assets under management. Aviva is the largest insurer in the United Kingdom and one of the leading providers of life insurance and pension products in Europe.
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With more than 180 years’ experience in France, Aviva is among the top ten players in the insurance market. Aviva France has a solid and profitable multi-distribution model based on a comprehensive range of products, mainly intended for consumers and SMEs.
Some 900 insurance agents, 1,800 branch staff, 400 life insurance advisers, almost 900 wealth management advisers (Union Financière de France) and more than 1,000 active partner brokers are on hand to serve three million customers every day. Aviva has developed unique expertise in building effective partnerships for the benefit of its clients, particularly with AFER, the largest savings association in France, and the Crédit du Nord, Société Générale and Ford groups.
Specialising in unit-linked products, Aviva is recognised for the excellent performance of its long-term funds, the quality and innovation of its products, and solid commitment to its customers through its Good Advice approach. Aviva France is a socially responsible company and has developed initiatives that include reducing and neutralising its CO2 emissions, supporting more than 250 projects to help children and the elderly through the Aviva Foundation, and implementing an acclaimed diversity policy.
The Aviva Group directly employs more than 4,700 staff in France. As at 31 December 2009, Aviva France reported consolidated sales of €6.7 billion and an IFRS-based net profit of €390 million. The company had €77.4 billion of assets under management as at 31 December 2009.
* Based on gross worldwide premiums at 31 December 2008.