JOHN R. COOMBER

Chief Executive Officer of Pension Corporation, a UK-based company which helps defined-benefit pension funds manage risk. Comber was also the former CEO of Swiss Re, a Zurich-based reinsurance company. He has also been the owner, chairman, and non-executive director of Telent, a UK-based technology services firm, as well as the chairman of Mactavish, a research company catering the insurance industry. The British citizen started his career with Phoenix Insurance Company then became part of Swiss Re as an actual trainee, being the firm’s first non-Swiss CEO in 2003.

Coomber assisted the company course the aftermath of 9/11 that heftily impacted the insurance industry and helped escalate its revenue and earnings, making the firm the biggest life reinsurance company in the world.