James Schiro
James Joseph Schiro (born January 2, 1946 in Brooklyn - † August 13, 2014 in Princeton ) was an American manager. From 2002 to 2009 he was CEO of the Zurich Insurance Group .
Life
After graduating from St. John's University in New York for business administration and accounting , as well as a postgraduate degree at Dartmouth College , he worked from 1967 as auditor at Price Waterhouse . In 1995 he became a senior partner and in 1998, after the merger with Coopers & Lybrand , PricewaterhouseCoopers became its CEO and chairman of the supervisory board. In 2001 he left the auditing company. In spring 2002 he was hired as Chief Operating Officer at what was then Zurich Financial Services (today: Zurich Insurance Group) and shortly afterwards he was appointed Group Manager and successor to Rolf Hüppi . He succeeded in bringing the insurance group, which had got into trouble at the time, back into the black.
In 2009, he resigned from his positions at Zurich Insurance Group, and was succeeded by Martin Senn . He then focused on advisory and supervisory board mandates at Goldman Sachs and PepsiCo . He died of cancer in 2014.
literature
- James Schiro in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Top performance for Zurich . In: NZZ from August 18, 2014, accessed on August 8, 2016.
- ↑ Landon Thomas: James Schiro, Goldman's Lead Director, Dies at 68 . In: New York Times, August 19, 2014, accessed August 8, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schiro, James |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schiro, James Joseph (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 2, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brooklyn |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 13, 2014 |
| Place of death | Princeton |