Sirma Boshnakova to succeed Rémi Grenier as CEO of Allianz Partners

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Sirma Boshnakova will become Chief Executive Officer of Allianz Partners, effective April 1, 2019. Rémi Grenier, CEO of Allianz Partners since 2015, will embark on new entrepreneurial activities outside of Allianz Group.

As Allianz Partners is starting a new strategic cycle for the next five years, he has decided to hand over the responsibility of steering the group’s growth.

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Sirma Boshnakova

Sirma Boshnakova currently is Head of Business Division for Western and Southern Europe at Allianz SE. She started her career at Boston Consulting Group and then held management and top leadership positions in the pharmaceutical and the insurance industry before joining Allianz in 2015.

Rémi Grenier joined Allianz Group in 2006, and has since held several top management positions. After eight years as CEO and Chairman of Allianz Assistance (formerly Mondial Assistance), he was instrumental in forming the Allianz Partners Group and led its successful transformation journey as CEO over the past five years. 

The Allianz Group is one of the world's leading insurers and asset managers with around 125 million* private and corporate customers in nearly 70 countries. Allianz customers benefit from a broad range of personal and corporate insurance services, ranging from property, life and health insurance to assistance services to credit insurance and global business insurance. Allianz is one of the world’s largest investors, managing around 737 billion euros** on behalf of its insurance customers. Furthermore, our asset managers PIMCO and Allianz Global Investors manage about 1.7 trillion euros** of third-party assets. Thanks to our systematic integration of ecological and social criteria in our business processes and investment decisions, we are among the leaders in the insurance industry in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. In 2023, over 157,000 employees achieved total business volume of 161.7 billion euros and an operating profit of 14.7 billion euros for the group.
* Including non-consolidated entities with Allianz customers.
** As of December 31, 2023.

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