Chief Executive Officer (CEO) NN Group and Chair of the Executive Board and the Management Board NN Group
(1962, Nationality: Dutch)
Appointed: 2014
Reappointed: 2017
Profile
Lard Friese was appointed as member and vice-chair of the Executive Board on 1 March 2014 and as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and chair of the Management Board and Executive Board on 7 July 2014. On 1 June 2017, he was reappointed as member and chair of the Executive Board and as CEO, and his membership and chairmanship of the Management Board continued. Previously he was appointed to the Management Board of ING Insurance as from 3 November 2011. Lard is responsible for the strategy, performance and day-to-day operations of NN. He has been with the company since 2008 and has experience in the financial services industry dating from 1988, most recently with NN Insurance Eurasia and Nationale-Nederlanden.
Education
Lard Friese holds an MSc degree in law from Utrecht University (the Netherlands).
Career
| Year | Role |
|---|---|
| 2014 | CEO NN Group |
| 2013 | Vice-chair of ING Insurance |
| 2011 | Member of the Management Board ING Insurance |
| 2009 | CEO of ING Insurance Benelux, responsible for ING’s insurance activities in the Benelux and Variable Annuities Europe |
| 2008 | CEO Nationale-Nederlanden |
| 2006 | Ceska Pojistovna a.s., Prague, Czech Republic: CEO & vice-chair of the Board of Directors; Member of the Executive Committee of Generali PPF Holding |
| 2003 | VNU/ACNielsen, Brussels, Belgium: Senior Vice President and Chief Retailer Services Officer Europe; Member of the European Executive Board |
| 2001 | Senior Vice President, AEGON, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1993 | Member of the Board of Directors at AEGON Levensverzekering N.V., The Hague, the Netherlands |
| 1988 | Various positions at insurance company NOG Verzekeringen, Amsterdam |
| 1986 | Tax consultant at Kammer Luhrmann Van Dien & Co (now PwC), Arnhem/Utrecht, the Netherlands |
