Rolf Watter

Rolf Urs Watter (born 1958, Swiss Citizen) has been a member of the Boards of Zurich Financial Services Ltd and of Zurich Insurance Company since May 2002.

Since 1994, he has been a partner in the law firm Bär & Karrer in Zurich and became a member of its executive board in 2000 and an executive director upon the incorporation of Bär & Karrer AG in 2007.

Mr. Watter is a non-executive director of Nobel Biocare Holding AG (since 2007), of Syngenta AG (since 2000), UBS Alternative Portfolio AG (since 2000) and A.W. Faber-Castell (Holding) AG (since 1997). He formerly was a non-executive chairman of Cablecom Holding AG (2004-2008) and a non-executive director of Centerpulse AG (2002-2003), of Forbo Holding AG (1999–2005) and of Feldschlösschen Getränke AG (2001-2004). In addition, he is a member of the SIX Admission Board and of its Disclosure Commission of Experts. He also serves as chairman of two charity institutions.

Mr. Watter graduated from the University of Zurich with a doctorate in law and holds a master of laws degree from Georgetown University in the US. He is ad-mitted to the bar of the Canton of Zurich. He is a part-time professor at the Law School of the University of Zurich.