Profile: Claudio Gienal, CEO of UK and Ireland, Axa
Axa’s new CEO of UK and Ireland has a tough act to follow, but Claudio Gienal is going back to brokers to make sure the insurer is providing the service customers have come to expect
Claudio Gienal’s route to the UK insurance sector got off to an unusual start. Hailing from a remote village in the Swiss mountains with less than 2,000 people and within five minutes’ walk from a ski slope, he went to school in a monastery before moving to Zurich to study engineering at university.
After failing to find an engineering job he wanted he ended up working for Accenture. As a consultant he saw a lot of different businesses across a diverse set of industries including tobacco
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