In addition to Rainer E. Gut, Peter Spälti, Vice-Chairman, and Heini
Lippuner will also step down from Credit Suisse Group’s Board of
Directors on the occasion of the Annual General Meeting held on
26 May 2000.
Dr. Spälti’s career at Winterthur Insurance began in 1958. He
held various posts before his appointment as General Manager and
Member of the Executive Board in 1978. Between 1983 and 1989 he
was Managing Director and between 1989 and 1997 he acted simul-
taneously as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of
Directors. He also found time for a political career, culminating from
1983 to 1991 with his membership of the Swiss National Council.
When Winterthur Insurance merged with Credit Suisse Group, Peter
Spälti joined the Credit Suisse Group Board of Directors as Vice-
Chairman.
Under Peter Spälti’s management, Winterthur developed into
one of the world’s leading insurance companies. For the last three
years, the Board of Directors and Executive Board of Credit Suisse
Group have also been able to benefit from his experience and would
like to express their sincerest gratitude for his service.
Heini Lippuner has been a member of the Board of Directors of
Credit Suisse Group since 1993. He served on the Chairman’s Com-
mittee of the former Credit Suisse (SKA) from 1994, and of Credit
Suisse Group from 1996. In 1999 he was a member of the Audit
Committees of Credit Suisse and Credit Suisse First Boston.
The Board of Directors and the Executive Board of Credit
Suisse Group would like to express their gratitude to Heini Lippuner for
his commitment to the good of our company. He remains a Member of
the Board of Directors of Winterthur and joins the Swiss Advisory
Board of Credit Suisse Group.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF CREDIT SUISSE GROUP
Rainer E. Gut
Born 1932. Chairman ofthe Boards of Directors ofCredit Suisse Group,Credit Suisse and CreditSuisse First Boston.
Board of Directors
Rainer E. Gut, Chairman 1, 2, 3, 5
Lukas Mühlemann, Chairman 1, 2, 4
Peter Spälti, Vice-Chairman 1, 2, 3
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Vice Chairman 1, 2
Thomas W. Bechtler 1
Philippe BruggisserMarc-Henri Chaudet 1
Gerald Clark Arthur Dunkel John M. Hennessy Walter B. Kielholz 1
Heini Lippuner 1, 3
Lionel I. PincusThomas Schmidheiny Vreni Spoerry Aziz D. SyrianiDaniel L. Vasella
Corporate Secretary:Pierre Schreiber 1 Member of the Chairman’s
Committee2 Member of the Compensation
Committee3 Retires at the Annual General Meeting
on 26 May 20004 Subject to election at the Annual
General Meeting on 26 May 20005 Honorary Chairman of the Board of
Directors (as of 26 May 2000)
Independent AuditorsKPMG Klynveld Peat MarwickGoerdeler SA, Zurich
Retirement of Rainer E. Gut
On the occasion of the Annual General Meeting, held on 26 May 2000, Rainer E. Gut is to retire from his post asChairman of the Board of Directors of Credit Suisse Group.
Rainer E. Gut joined our Group in 1971 as Chairmanand CEO of the Swiss American Corporation, New York. In1973 he was appointed to the Executive Board of the formerCredit Suisse (SKA), becoming spokesman in 1977. He wenton to become the President of the Executive Board in 1982,before being elected to the position of Chairman of the Boardof Directors of the former Credit Suisse in 1983. Since thecreation of the holding structure in 1989, he has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of Credit Suisse Group(previously CS Holding AG) and until 1996 President of theExecutive Board of CS Holding AG and Chairman of the Boardof Directors of SKA (former Credit Suisse) and CS FirstBoston Inc.
Rainer E. Gut has dedicated himself to our company foralmost 30 years. Under his aegis, our Group has developedinto a leading global financial services provider. It is thanks tohis initiative that our Group enjoys a strong position in globalinvestment banking and in bancassurance and that CreditSuisse Group recognised early on the great importance of astrong position in our home market, Switzerland.
The Board of Directors, the Executive Board and theemployees of Credit Suisse Group thank Rainer E. Gut forhis leadership. In recognition of his important contribution tothe Group, the Board of Directors of Credit Suisse Grouphas decided to appoint Rainer E. Gut as its Honorary Chairman.
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EXECUTIVE BOARD OF CREDIT SUISSE GROUP
Changes in the Executive Board
After 33 years of service, Paul Meier, Member
of the Executive Board of Credit Suisse Group
and Chief Executive Officer of the Credit
Suisse business unit, stepped down at the end
of March 2000 for personal reasons. Paul
Meier occupied various functions within Credit
Suisse Group, including Member of the Execu-
tive Board of the former Schweizerische
Kreditanstalt and Chairman of the Executive
Board of Swiss Volksbank. From 1997 he was
responsible for the Group’s corporate and
individual customer business in Switzerland
which – under his management – succeeded
in returning to profit by means of systematic
restructuring and repositioning, particularly in
the area of e-commerce.
Paul Meier will retain his ties with Credit
Suisse Group as a Member of the Board of
Directors of Neue Aargauer Bank, Member of
the Swiss Advisory Board and other mandates.
The Board of Directors and the Executive
Board would like to express their sincere
gratitude to him for his many years of suc-
cessful commitment to the company and to
wish him all the best for the future.
Rolf Dörig, interim finance director of the
Swiss national exhibition (Expo.02) until the
end of January 2000 and former Chief of Staff
of Credit Suisse Group, has taken over from
Paul Meier as Chief Executive Officer of Credit
Suisse. Rolf Dörig also becomes a Member of
the Executive Board of Credit Suisse Group.
Credit Suisse, Winterthur and the ‘Personal
Financial Services Europe’ initiative were com-
bined to form the new ‘Financial Services’
management division as of 1 April 2000.
Thomas Wellauer has assumed responsibility
for this management division in addition to his
function as Chief Executive Officer of
Winterthur and Head of ‘Personal Financial
Services Europe’.
Lukas Mühlemann
Born 1950. ChiefExecutive Officer of Credit Suisse Group.
Allen D. Wheat
Born 1948. ChiefExecutive Officer of CreditSuisse First Boston.
Oswald J. Grübel
Born 1943. ChiefExecutive Officer of CreditSuisse Private Banking.
Thomas Wellauer
Born 1955. Head of theFinancial Services man-agement division andChief Executive Officer ofWinterthur Group.
Hans-Ulrich Doerig
Born 1940. Vice-Chairmanof the Executive Board andChief Risk Officer of CreditSuisse Group.
Rolf Dörig
Born 1957. ChiefExecutive Officer of Credit Suisse.
Richard E. Thornburgh
Born 1952. Vice-Chairmanof the Executive Board ofCredit Suisse First Boston.
Phillip M. Colebatch
Born 1944. ChiefExecutive Officer ofCredit Suisse AssetManagement.
Philip K. Ryan
Born 1956. Chief FinancialOfficer of Credit SuisseGroup.
Senior Executives Corporate CentreAhmad Abu El-Ata, TechnologyKurt Arnold, TaxPeter Bachmann, Accounting/ReportingGerhard Beindorff, Investor RelationsDavid Frick, General CounselAlfred Gremli, AdvisoryTobias Guldimann, Risk Management
Urs Hänni, AuditPhilip Hess, Chief of StaffStefan Hilber, Accounting SystemsJean-Pierre Huwyler, SecurityUlrich Pfister, Public AffairsKarin Rhomberg, Group CommunicationsYuji Suzuki, Chairman Japan
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BOARDS OF DIRECTORS OF CREDIT SUISSE, CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON AND WINTERTHUR AND ADVISORY BOARDS OF CREDIT SUISSE GROUP
BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF CREDIT SUISSERainer E. Gut, Chairman 2, 4
Lukas Mühlemann, Chairman 2, 3
Peter Spälti, Vice-Chairman 2, 4
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Vice-Chairman 2
Thomas W. Bechtler 1
Marc-Henri Chaudet 1
Walter B. Kielholz 1
Heini Lippuner 1, 4
1 Member of the Audit Committee2 Member of the Compensation Committee3 From 9 March 20004 Until 9 March 2000
INDEPENDENT AUDITORSKPMG Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler SA, Zurich
BOARD OF DIRECTORS OFCREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTONRainer E. Gut, Chairman 2, 4
Lukas Mühlemann, Chairman 2, 3
Peter Spälti, Vice-Chairman 2, 4
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Vice-Chairman 2
Thomas W. Bechtler 1
Marc-Henri Chaudet 1
Walter B. Kielholz 1
Heini Lippuner 1, 4
1 Member of the Audit Committee2 Member of the Compensation Committee3 From 28 March 20004 Until 28 March 2000
INDEPENDENT AUDITORSKPMG Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler SA, Zurich
BOARD OF DIRECTORS OFWINTERTHUR INSURANCE ANDWINTERTHUR LIFEPeter Spälti, Chairman 1
Heini Lippuner, Vice-Chairman 1
Pierre Borgeaud 1
Urs Bühler Marc-Henri Chaudet 1
Michael HiltiKlaus JacobiAlexandre F. JetzerHedi Lang Lukas Mühlemann 1
HONORARY CHAIRMANDr. Hans Braunschweiler
1 Member of the Board Committee
INDEPENDENT AUDITORSPricewaterhouseCoopers AG, Zürich 1
KPMG Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler SA, Zürich 2
1 Until 29 March 20002 From 29 March 2000
International Advisory Board
Flavio Cotti, ChairmanFranco BernabèKim Clark Mario A. CortiThierry DesmarestFritz Gerber Rainer E. Gut Michael Hilti Andreas W. KellerHelmut Kohl 1
Andreas N. Koopmann Jorge Paulo Lemann Lukas Mühlemann Agostino Rocca Manfred Schneider Ernst Tanner 1 Mandate suspended at his own
request
Advisory Board Switzerland
Ulrich Bremi, Chairman Urs Lauffer, Vice-ChairmanFranz Albers Truls D. Berg Susy Brüschweiler Martin Candrian Melchior Ehrler Brigitta M. Gadient Riccardo Gullotti Rainer E. Gut Urs Hammer André KudelskiHeini Lippuner 1
Paul Meier 1
Rosmarie MichelLukas Mühlemann Erich Müller Gaudenz Staehelin Hans-Peter Zehnder Roland Zimmerli 1 As of 28 April 2000
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EXECUTIVE BOARDS OF THE BUSINESS UNITS
CREDIT SUISSEEXECUTIVE BOARD
Rolf Dörig, Chief Executive Officer
Alfred M. BanzBruno BohlhalterBruno BonatiBeat M. FennerWalter FluckDominique FolletêteGerhard GastparFranz-Josef GrothHans Ueli KellerUlrich KörnerRolf KränzlinHanspeter KurzmeyerPeter LienhartBruno PfisterMartin Wetter
CREDIT SUISSE PRIVATE BANKINGEXECUTIVE BOARD
Oswald J. Grübel, Chief Executive Officer
Christoph AmmannThomas AmstutzPeter A. DerendingerReto DonatschAldo B. LeoniHeinz RothOlivier SteimerAlex W. WidmerAlexandre Zeller
CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTONEXECUTIVE BOARD
Allen D. Wheat, Chief Executive Officer
Richard E. ThornburghVice-Chairman
Paul CalelloChristopher CarterBrady W. DouganChristopher A. Goekjian Stephen A.M. Hester David C. MulfordJohn NelsonStephen E. StonefieldCharles G. Ward III
CREDIT SUISSE ASSET MANAGEMENTEXECUTIVE BOARD
Phillip M. Colebatch, Chief Executive Officer
Toshio FukudaJoseph Gallagher Andrew McKinnon Robert Parker William W. Priest, Jr. Dilip RasgotraLaurence R. Smith Steen Steincke Timothy T. Taussig Heinrich WegmannEdgar Weissenberger
WINTERTHUR GROUPEXECUTIVE BOARD
Thomas Wellauer, Chief Executive Officer
Herman AaftinkGiovanni BagiottiManfred BroskaMarkus DennlerHansjörg FreiErwin W. HeriHans-Rudolf StricklerWilli Suter
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LOCATIONS WORLDWIDE
CREDIT SUISSEGROUPHeadquarters in Zurich
CREDIT SUISSE239 locations in Switzerland
CREDIT SUISSEPRIVATE BANKING51 locations in SwitzerlandAbu DhabiAthensBarcelonaBeirutBerlinBogotáBuenos AiresCairoCaracasDubaiFrankfurtGibraltarGuernseyHamburgHong KongHoustonIstanbulKuala LumpurLondonLuxembourgMadridMexico CityMiamiMilanMonacoMontevideoMunichNassauNew YorkParisRio de JaneiroSantiago de ChileSão PauloSingaporeTaipeiVienna
CREDIT SUISSEFIRST BOSTONSwitzerland (Geneva, Lugano, Zug,Zurich)AmsterdamAtlantaAucklandBaltimoreBangkok
BeijingBostonBudapestBuenos AiresCairoChicagoFrankfurtGuernseyHong KongHoustonIstanbulJakartaJohannesburgKievKuala LumpurLabuanLimassolLondonLos AngelesMadridManilaMelbourneMexico CityMilanMontrealMoscowMumbaiNassauNew YorkPalo AltoParisPhiladelphiaPragueSan FranciscoSão PauloSeoulShanghaiSingaporeSydneyTaipeiTashkentTokyoTorontoViennaWarsawWellington
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WINTERTHUR634 locations in Switzerland– 6 branches– 8 regional
managements– 150 general agencies– 470 agenciesAmsterdamBarcelonaBasingstokeBeijingBellevueBerlinBostonBrnoBromleyBruneiBrusselsBudapestBuenos AiresChicagoCopenhagenDallasDusseldorf
FrankfurtGlostrupGuangzhouHamburgHamilton, BermudaHong KongJakartaJohannesburgLisbonLondonLos AngelesLuxembourgLyonMadridMexico CityMelbourneMilanMontgomeryMunichNew YorkNingboParisPragueQuebecSão PauloShanghaiSimsburySingaporeStockholmStuttgartSun PrairieSydneyTaipeiTianjinTokyoTorontoViennaWarsawWiesbaden
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