Gabriele Christiane Tischler attended Class 31 of  the International Executive MBA. She graduated  in Business Administration at the University of Passau (Germany) and Toulouse (France). After several internships in Germany, Spain and Venezuela during times at the faculty, her career began at Ernst & Young where she worked in the field of Auditing in Stuttgart and Strasburg. Later on she migrated to the insurance industry, joining the Allianz group. During four years she worked at headquarters in Munich, before relocating to the group´s Brazilian branch, in São Paulo.

In eight years of work performed within the Brazilian insurance market, she went through the fields of Project Management, Sales, Marketing and Strategic Planning. She was held responsible for large projects such as the implementation of a new segmentation and customer care model for the broker channel, the re-structuring of points-of-sale and the change of the AGF brand name to Allianz in 2008. In August 2009, she took on new challenges at the group´s English branch office, Allianz Insurance Plc., in London, where she accounts for the Broker & Customer Propositions area within the Market Management division.

”FIA’s International Executive MBA unveiled new horizons.  My curiosity as to new market trends within the academic and practical worlds was arisen and it motivated my overcoming of personal comfort zones. I learnt much not only during the extremely high quality level classes but also given the interchange of ideas with class group colleagues, from varied companies and fields. The most impressive experience was, by far, the trip to China. I discovered a fascinating country that even inspired me to take on mandarin lessons so as to learn more about this entirely different culture”.

Gabriele Tischler, Head of Broker & Customer Propositions, Allianz Commercial, Market Management.

gabriele.tischler@allianz.co.uk