The focus is firmly on the future at Baloise. We aim to make tomorrow more straightforward, safer and more carefree for our customers, and we are taking responsibility for this today. Baloise is more than just a traditional insurance company. Through our smart finance and insurance solutions, complemented by a whole host of innovative offerings for the home and personal transport, we offer a complete service package. Dependable support, reliable cooperation and trust-based relationships are key aspects of our stakeholder interaction. We take care of financial matters so that our customers can concentrate on the important things in their lives and can find inspiration in the everyday. Baloise, a European company founded in 1863, currently employs 8,000 people at its headquarters in Basel (Switzerland) and across its subsidiaries in Belgium, Germany and Luxembourg. Our services generated a business volume of around CHF 9,600 million in 2021 and a profit of CHF 588.4 million. Bâloise Holding Ltd shares (BALN) are listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange.

Since the founding of the corporate division Asset Management in 2001, Baloise Asset Management AG and Baloise Asset Management International AG have been providing investment advisory and asset management services.

The Asset Management of Baloise accommodates the growing demand of the Group and of third-party customers for high-quality financial products and qualified portfolio management, while strengthening the positioning of Baloise as a leading financial services provider in Switzerland.

Caption: Simplified presentation of the group structure of Bâloise Holding AG.

Caption: Organisation chart of Baloise Group.

President of the Corporate Executive Committee of the Baloise Group (Group CEO)

Gert De Winter (1966, Belgium, MSc) studied applied economics at the University of Antwerp. From 1988 to 2004, he performed various roles at Accenture in Brussels for issues relating to IT and business transformation management in the financial sector. He was made a partner at the firm in the year 2000. In 2005, he joined the Baloise Group as Chief Information Officer and Head of HR of the Mercator insurance company in Belgium. From 2009 to 2015, Gert De Winter was Chief Executive Officer of Baloise Insurance, which was formed in 2011 from the merger of the three insurance companies Mercator, Nateus and Avéro. Gert De Winter has been Group CEO since January 2016. He is a member of the Management Board of the Basel Chamber of Commerce and the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce.

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Chief IT Officer (CTO)

Alexander Bockelmann (1974, Germany, Dr rer. nat.) studied geoecology and environmental sciences at the universities of Bayreuth and East Anglia before completing his doctorate at the University of Tübingen’s faculty of geosciences. Dr Alexander Bockelmann is a proven expert in digitalisation and transformation, and has many years of experience in the industry. He previously worked as an IT strategy and transformation consultant at Boston Consulting Group and in various senior roles at Allianz SE in Germany and the USA. At the end of 2013, he moved to UNIQA Insurance Group AG in Austria in the role of Group CIO and ultimately became Chief Digital Officer and Group Chief Information Officer on the Management Board. In February 2019, Dr Alexander Bockelmann joined the Baloise Group to lead the newly created Corporate Division IT.

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Head of Corporate Division Asset Management

Matthias Henny (1971, Switzerland, Dr phil.) completed his undergraduate and postgraduate studies in physics at the University of Basel. From 1998 to 2003, he was employed at McKinsey&Co., before switching to what was then the Winterthur Group, where he was Head of Financial Engineering in Asset Management until 2007. Subsequently, he was a member of the management team at AXA Winterthur, as Head of Asset Management (until 2010) and as CFO. In 2012, Dr Matthias Henny joined the Baloise Group. As CEO of Baloise Asset Management AG, he was responsible for the administration of approximately CHF 50 billion in assets. Dr Matthias Henny became a member of the Corporate Executive Committee in May 2017. He manages the Corporate Division Asset Management incorporating the Investment Strategy and Investment Controlling, Business Development, Portfolio Management, Finance, Real Estate and Corporate Services units.

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CEO Baloise in Switzerland

Michael Müller (1971, Switzerland, lic. oec. publ.) graduated in economics from the University of Zurich, specialising in insurance and accounting/finance. He began his career with Baloise in 1997, starting as a management trainee, then working in Group Finance and eventually becoming Deputy Head and, in 2004, Head of Financial Accounting for the Baloise Group. In 2009, as Head of Finance and Risk, he became a member of the senior management team in Corporate Division Switzerland. He has been a member of the Corporate Executive Committee and CEO of Corporate Division Switzerland since March 2011, and as such has been in charge of business in Switzerland. Michael Müller is Vice-President of the Swiss Insurance Association (SIA), on the Board and as Quaestor a member of the Board Committee of the Swiss Employers' Association, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Basel Financial Centre Foundation and a member of the Board of Foundation of Stiftung Finanzplatz Basel and the Executive Board of the Association of Basel Insurance Companies. He also sits on the board of the Promotion Society of the Institute of Insurance Economics at the University of St. Gallen.

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Head of Finance (CFO)

Carsten Stolz (1968, Germany /Switzerland, Dr rer. pol.) studied business economics at Fribourg University and gained a doctorate specialising in financial management. He holds an Executive Master in Change from INSEAD. He joined the Baloise Group in 2002 as Head of Financial Relations. From 2009 to 2011, he was the Baloise Group’s Head of Financial Accounting&Corporate Finance. Between 2011 and 2017, he was Head of Finance and Risk, and thus a member of the Executive Committee, at Baloise in Switzerland. Dr Carsten Stolz became a member of the Corporate Executive Committee in May 2017. He manages the Corporate Division Finance with its departments Group Accounting&Reporting, Financial Planning&Analysis, Group Risk Management and Corporate Communications&Investor Relations, Mergers & Acquisitions, Group Procurement and Run-off as well as the appointed actuary for Swiss business at Baloise and the Head of Regulatory Affairs. Dr Carsten Stolz is a member of the Finance and Regulation Committee of the Swiss Insurance Association (SVV).

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Thomas von Planta (1961, Switzerland, Dr iur., lawyer) has been a member of the Board of Directors since 2017 and its Chairman since 30 April 2021. Until March 2019, he was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bellevue Group AG, Bank am Bellevue AG and Bellevue Asset Management AG. Before that, he had worked for Goldman Sachs in Zurich, Frankfurt and London for around ten years and had been the interim Head of Investment Banking and Head of Corporate Finance for the Vontobel Group in Zurich between 2002 and 2006. Until April 2021, he was managing director of CorFinAd AG, a company he founded that specialises in consultancy for M&A transactions and capital market finance. Dr Thomas von Planta sits on the Board of Directors of BB Biotech AG. He is an independent non-executive director.

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Christoph Mäder (1959, Switzerland, lawyer) has been a member of the Board of Directors since 2019 and Vice Chairman since May 2022. From 2000 to 2018, he was a member of the Syngenta International AG executive team with responsibility for legal and tax. He was also a member of the Management Board of the Basel Chamber of Commerce and of scienceindustries until 2018, serving as the latter’s president between 2008 and 2014. He has been president of economiesuisse, the umbrella organisation representing Swiss business, since 2020. Christoph Mäder is Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of Lonza Group AG, a member of the Board of Directors of EMS Chemie Holding  AG and Assivalor  AG and, since 2021, a member of the Bank Council of the Swiss National Bank. He is an independent non-executive director.

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Maya Bundt (1971, German/Switzerland, Dr. sc. nat., geo-ecologist) has sat on the Board of Directors since 2022. She held various positions at the reinsurance company Swiss Re. Among other things, she headed the Cyber & Digital Solutions department and held the positions of Cyber Practice Leader and Chair of the Swiss Re Cyber Council. Prior to joining Swiss Re, Maya Bundt worked for Boston Consulting Group for three years as a strategy consultant in a wide range of industries. Maya Bundt is an elected member of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council for Cybersecurity and serves as an independent member on the Boards of Directors of Valiant Bank AG and APG SGA AG. She is an independent non-executive director.

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Claudia Dill (1966, Switzerland, economist) has sat on the Board of Directors since 2022. She holds an MBA from the University of Rochester/Bern and completed the Advanced Management Program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. From 1999 to 2020, she worked for Zurich Insurance Group in various management positions in Zurich, New York and Sao Paulo, including CFO of the internal reinsurance and reinsurance run-off business, CFO of the European business and COO of the non-life business. Most recently, she was a member of the Group Executive Committee with responsibility for the Latin American market. Before joining Zurich, Claudia Dill worked for Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank and Coopers and Lybrand. Until March 2022, she was an independent member of the Board of Nordea Bank Abp. She is an independent non-executive director.

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Christoph B. Gloor (1966, Switzerland, degree in business economics HWV) has been a member of the Board of Directors since 2014. Since November 2019, he has been a director and limited partner in Basel-based private bank E. Gutzwiller & Cie, Banquiers. He had previously been partner and Chief Executive Officer of private bank La Roche & Co AG before going on to become a member of the Executive Committee and Deputy CEO of Notenstein La Roche Privatbank AG and Deputy Head of Wealth Management at Bank Vontobel AG. Prior to joining La Roche & Co AG in 1998, he worked for Swiss Bank Corporation (SBC) before moving to Vitra (International). Christoph B. Gloor served as president of the Association of Swiss Private Banks from 2013 to 2015 and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Swiss Bankers Association from 2013 to 2015. He was a member of the Board of Managing Directors of the Basel Banking Association until 2019. He holds an Executive Master in Change from INSEAD, where he also completed the International Directors Program in 2018. Christoph B. Gloor is an independent non-executive director.

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Hugo Lasat (1964, Belgium, Master in Economic Sciences, Master in Finance) has sat on the Board of Directors since 2016. He has been Group CEO of Brussels-based Degroof Petercam since October 2021. In this role, he also chairs the Board of Directors of Degroof Petercam Asset Management (DPAM), a company he previously ran as CEO. Hugo Lasat is a member of the Board of Directors of Banque Degroof Petercam in Luxembourg and Arvestar Asset Management, Brussels. He is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Syncicap Asset Management Ltd., and his previous managerial roles include CEO of Amonis Pension Fund and of the Candriam Investors Group. He is a guest professor at KU Leuven (Brussels Campus). Hugo Lasat is an independent non-executive director.

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Karin Lenzlinger Diedenhofen (1959, Switzerland, Dr oec. HSG) has been a member of the Board of Directors since 2021. She has been Vice-President of the SV Group AG since 2017 and Chair of the Board of Directors of Zürcher Oberland Medien AG since 2015. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Bank Linth LLB AG and of Übermorgen Ventures Investment AG and sits on various boards of foundations and organisations with portfolios including corporate responsibility and sustainability. Dr Karin Lenzlinger Diedenhofen has been President of Zurich’s Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Board of Directors of economiesuisse since 2013. Between 1991 and 2019, she held various positions, most recently as CEO and delegate of the Board of Directors of Lenzlinger Söhne AG, Nänikon/Uster. Karin Lenzlinger Diedenhofen is an independent non-executive director.

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Markus R. Neuhaus (1958, Switzerland, Dr iur., qualified tax expert) has been a member of the Board of Directors since 2019. He was the Chairman of the Board of Directors of PricewaterhouseCoopers AG (PwC) from 2012 to 2019 and served as its CEO for a period of nine years prior to that. He did not hold any operational role at PwC from July 2012 and was not personally involved in the Company’s audit engagement for Baloise (until 2015). Dr Markus R. Neuhaus is Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of Barry Callebaut AG and Orior AG. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Galenica  AG and Jacobs Holding  AG. Dr Markus R. Neuhaus is also Vice-President at Avenir Suisse and at the Zurich Chamber of Commerce, and a member of the Board of Foundation of the ETH Foundation. He is an independent non-executive director.

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Hans-Jörg Schmidt-Trenz (1959, Germany, Prof. Dr rer. pol.) has sat on the Board of Directors since 2018. He is a Professor of Economics at Saarland University and the University of Hamburg (specialising in institutional economics and governance) and Founding President of the HSBA Hamburg School of Business Administration, where he has been an honorary senator since 2019. From 1996 to 2017, he was Chief Executive Officer of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, and from 2010 to 2018, President of the Working Committee of European Chamber Chief Executives. He was a long-serving member of the Supervisory Board of Hamburg Airport, Hamburg Exhibition Centre and the NDR Broadcasting Council, as well as a member of the Board of Trustees of Hamburger Sparkasse. He is Vice-Chair of the World Chamber Federation of the International Chamber of Commerce ICC, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Hamburg Academic Foundation and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Tafel foundation of Hamburg-Schleswig-Holstein. Hans-Jörg Schmidt-Trenz is an independent non-executive director.

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Marie-Noëlle Venturi-Zen-Ruffinen (1975, Switzerland, Prof. Dr iur., lawyer) has been a member of the Board of Directors since 2016. She holds a PhD and master’s degree in law and a master’s degree in philosophy from the University of Fribourg. She is a lawyer and honorary professor at the School of Economics and Management at the University of Geneva, where she mainly lectures on corporate law. Professor Marie-Noëlle Venturi-Zen-Ruffinen was a partner in the Geneva law firm Tavernier Tschanz until 2012, and since that time has been of counsel for the firm. She is Vice-Chair of the Board of Foundation of the Swiss Board Institute, Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of Banco Santander International SA, a member of the Board of Directors of Ina Invest Holding AG and Ina Invest AG and a member of the Board of Management of the Swiss Institute of Directors. Professor Marie-Noëlle Venturi-Zen-Ruffinen is an independent non-executive director.

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