Benedikt Schmid

Benedikt Schmid is the Chief Information and Data Officer at MS Reinsurance, a position held since February 2023. Prior to this role, Benedikt Schmid served as the Reinsurance CIO at AXIS Capital from June 2006 to February 2023, overseeing the execution of the AXIS Re IT strategy and managing IT services across the organization. Additionally, Benedikt held roles such as Head of Reinsurance Platform Management Group and Reinsurance Program Manager at AXIS Capital, where responsibilities included managing business system support and IT project portfolios across multiple locations. Earlier experience includes a position as Senior Application Engineer at Swiss Re, focusing on data warehouse and business intelligence projects, and serving as a Consultant at Arthur Andersen Business Consulting. Benedikt Schmid holds an MBA in Business Administration and Management, a lic.oec.publ. in Information Technology and Business Administration from the University of Zurich, and completed a course in Cybersecurity: Managing Risk in the Information Age at HarvardX.