Paolo Varisco
Lecturer
Finance
SBS Swiss Business School
Switzerland
Biography
He started his professional career with the multinational Swiss Reinsurance Company (today Swiss Re) in the Group Internal Audit department for which he traveled abroad extensively. He then spent 5 years as CEO in an international medical assistance company that was undergoing a restructuring and repositioning phase. In 2002 Paolo Varisco joined Converium Ltd, a Swiss-based reinsurance company with listings at the SWX and the NYSE. He built the Group’s Internal Audit department and, with his team, contributed to the successful design, implementation and operational testing of the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, mainly sections 302 and 404. In 2007 Paolo was appointed CEO/COO of the newly formed Zurich Hub of SCOR in Switzerland. In 2010 he restructured and reshaped the company’s HR function globally.
Research Interest
Accounting