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Ackermann is an academic, a Swiss native, but most of all, a banker. Ackermann started his career in corporate banking at Credit Suisse in the mid-1970s, before fighting off lesser rivals to become chief executive of the investment giant Deutsche Bank in 2002 for ten years.
He then became the Chairman of Zurich Insurance Group but resigned one year later after the firm's chief financial officer Pierre Wauthier committed suicide and cited Ackermann in a final note that claimed he was under "undue pressure" from the former financier.
Zurich's Acting Chairman Tom de Swaan, who took over from Ackermann after the resignation, confirmed a note had been found with Wauthier's body. |