Alexander Wynaendts: Aegon Chief

Alexander Wynaendts was born in 1960 and is a Dutch national. He graduated from Graduate Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité, Paris and has a degree in economics from University of Paris, Sorbonne. Alex started his career with ABN Amro in 1984 working in Amsterdam and London in the Dutch bank’s capital markets, asset management, corporate finance and private banking operations. He joined Aegon in 1997 as Senior Vice-President for Group Business Development. 

Alex became a member of Aegon’s Executive Board since 2003, overseeing the company’s international growth strategy. He was named Chief Operating Officer in April 2007.  Only a year later he was promoted to CEO and elected Chairman of Aegon’s Executive and Management Boards.

Alex leads a sprawling organization. Aegon offers insurance, pensions and asset management in more than 25 countries. The firm is listed on the Amsterdam and New York stock exchanges.  It has A-level ratings from the three main credit rating agencies.

Aegon manages more than EUR 460 billion of its own and its customers’ investments. It has millions of customers and employs more than 26,500 people. Aegon was founded in 1983 following the merger of two Dutch insurance companies, AGO and Ennia. The firm’s history goes back over 150 years though. Today, it is one of the largest insurance companies in the U.S. and is number one in the Dutch group pensions market.