1. BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF CREDIT SUISSE GROUP
Board of Directors
Retirement of Rainer E. Gut
Rainer E. Gut, Chairman 1, 2, 3, 5 On the occasion of the Annual General Meeting, held on
Lukas Mühlemann, Chairman 1, 2, 4 26 May 2000, Rainer E. Gut is to retire from his post as
Peter Spälti, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Credit Suisse Group.
Vice-Chairman 1, 2, 3 Rainer E. Gut joined our Group in 1971 as Chairman
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, and CEO of the Swiss American Corporation, New York. In
Vice Chairman 1, 2 1973 he was appointed to the Executive Board of the former
Rainer E. Gut Credit Suisse (SKA), becoming spokesman in 1977. He went
Thomas W. Bechtler 1
Born 1932. Chairman of on to become the President of the Executive Board in 1982,
Philippe Bruggisser
the Boards of Directors of before being elected to the position of Chairman of the Board
Marc-Henri Chaudet 1
Credit Suisse Group, of Directors of the former Credit Suisse in 1983. Since the
Gerald Clark
Credit Suisse and Credit creation of the holding structure in 1989, he has been
Arthur Dunkel
Suisse First Boston. Chairman of the Board of Directors of Credit Suisse Group
John M. Hennessy
Walter B. Kielholz 1 (previously CS Holding AG) and until 1996 President of the
Heini Lippuner 1, 3 Executive Board of CS Holding AG and Chairman of the Board
Lionel I. Pincus of Directors of SKA (former Credit Suisse) and CS First
Thomas Schmidheiny Boston Inc.
Vreni Spoerry Rainer E. Gut has dedicated himself to our company for
Aziz D. Syriani almost 30 years. Under his aegis, our Group has developed
Daniel L. Vasella into a leading global financial services provider. It is thanks to
his initiative that our Group enjoys a strong position in global
Corporate Secretary:
investment banking and in bancassurance and that Credit
Pierre Schreiber
Suisse Group recognised early on the great importance of a
1 Member of the Chairman’s
Committee strong position in our home market, Switzerland.
2 Member of the Compensation The Board of Directors, the Executive Board and the
Committee employees of Credit Suisse Group thank Rainer E. Gut for
3 Retires at the Annual General Meeting his leadership. In recognition of his important contribution to
on 26 May 2000
the Group, the Board of Directors of Credit Suisse Group
4 Subject to election at the Annual
General Meeting on 26 May 2000 has decided to appoint Rainer E. Gut as its Honorary
5 Honorary Chairman of the Board of Chairman.
Directors (as of 26 May 2000)
Independent Auditors
KPMG Klynveld Peat Marwick
Goerdeler SA, Zurich
In addition to Rainer E. Gut, Peter Spälti, Vice-Chairman, and Heini years, the Board of Directors and Executive Board of Credit Suisse
Lippuner will also step down from Credit Suisse Group’s Board of Group have also been able to benefit from his experience and would
Directors on the occasion of the Annual General Meeting held on like to express their sincerest gratitude for his service.
26 May 2000.
Heini Lippuner has been a member of the Board of Directors of
Dr. Spälti’s career at Winterthur Insurance began in 1958. He Credit Suisse Group since 1993. He served on the Chairman’s Com-
held various posts before his appointment as General Manager and mittee of the former Credit Suisse (SKA) from 1994, and of Credit
Member of the Executive Board in 1978. Between 1983 and 1989 he Suisse Group from 1996. In 1999 he was a member of the Audit
was Managing Director and between 1989 and 1997 he acted simul- Committees of Credit Suisse and Credit Suisse First Boston.
taneously as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of
Directors. He also found time for a political career, culminating from The Board of Directors and the Executive Board of Credit
1983 to 1991 with his membership of the Swiss National Council. Suisse Group would like to express their gratitude to Heini Lippuner for
When Winterthur Insurance merged with Credit Suisse Group, Peter his commitment to the good of our company. He remains a Member of
Spälti joined the Credit Suisse Group Board of Directors as Vice- the Board of Directors of Winterthur and joins the Swiss Advisory
Chairman. Board of Credit Suisse Group.
Under Peter Spälti’s management, Winterthur developed into
one of the world’s leading insurance companies. For the last three
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2. EXECUTIVE BOARD OF CREDIT SUISSE GROUP
Changes in the Executive Board
After 33 years of service, Paul Meier, Member
of the Executive Board of Credit Suisse Group
and Chief Executive Officer of the Credit
Suisse business unit, stepped down at the end
of March 2000 for personal reasons. Paul
Meier occupied various functions within Credit
Suisse Group, including Member of the Execu-
tive Board of the former Schweizerische
Lukas Mühlemann Hans-Ulrich Doerig Philip K. Ryan
Kreditanstalt and Chairman of the Executive
Born 1950. Chief Born 1940. Vice-Chairman Born 1956. Chief Financial
Board of Swiss Volksbank. From 1997 he was
Executive Officer of of the Executive Board and Officer of Credit Suisse
responsible for the Group’s corporate and
Credit Suisse Group. Chief Risk Officer of Credit Group.
individual customer business in Switzerland
Suisse Group.
which – under his management – succeeded
in returning to profit by means of systematic
restructuring and repositioning, particularly in
the area of e-commerce.
Paul Meier will retain his ties with Credit
Suisse Group as a Member of the Board of
Directors of Neue Aargauer Bank, Member of
the Swiss Advisory Board and other mandates.
The Board of Directors and the Executive
Oswald J. Grübel Thomas Wellauer Rolf Dörig Board would like to express their sincere
Born 1943. Chief Born 1955. Head of the Born 1957. Chief gratitude to him for his many years of suc-
Executive Officer of Credit Financial Services man- Executive Officer of cessful commitment to the company and to
Suisse Private Banking. agement division and Credit Suisse. wish him all the best for the future.
Chief Executive Officer of
Winterthur Group. Rolf Dörig, interim finance director of the
Swiss national exhibition (Expo.02) until the
end of January 2000 and former Chief of Staff
of Credit Suisse Group, has taken over from
Paul Meier as Chief Executive Officer of Credit
Suisse. Rolf Dörig also becomes a Member of
the Executive Board of Credit Suisse Group.
Credit Suisse, Winterthur and the ‘Personal
Financial Services Europe’ initiative were com-
Allen D. Wheat Richard E. Thornburgh Phillip M. Colebatch bined to form the new ‘Financial Services’
Born 1948. Chief Born 1952. Vice-Chairman Born 1944. Chief management division as of 1 April 2000.
Executive Officer of Credit of the Executive Board of Executive Officer of Thomas Wellauer has assumed responsibility
Suisse First Boston. Credit Suisse First Boston. Credit Suisse Asset for this management division in addition to his
Management. function as Chief Executive Officer of
Winterthur and Head of ‘Personal Financial
Services Europe’.
Senior Executives
Corporate Centre
Ahmad Abu El-Ata, Technology Urs Hänni, Audit
Kurt Arnold, Tax Philip Hess, Chief of Staff
Peter Bachmann, Accounting/Reporting Stefan Hilber, Accounting Systems
Gerhard Beindorff, Investor Relations Jean-Pierre Huwyler, Security
David Frick, General Counsel Ulrich Pfister, Public Affairs
Alfred Gremli, Advisory Karin Rhomberg, Group Communications
Tobias Guldimann, Risk Management Yuji Suzuki, Chairman Japan
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3. BOARDS OF DIRECTORS OF CREDIT SUISSE, CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON
AND WINTERTHUR AND ADVISORY BOARDS OF CREDIT SUISSE GROUP
BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF
CREDIT SUISSE CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON WINTERTHUR INSURANCE AND
Rainer E. Gut, Chairman 2, 4 Rainer E. Gut, Chairman 2, 4 WINTERTHUR LIFE
Lukas Mühlemann, Chairman 2, 3 Lukas Mühlemann, Chairman 2, 3 Peter Spälti, Chairman 1
Peter Spälti, Vice-Chairman 2, 4 Peter Spälti, Vice-Chairman 2, 4 Heini Lippuner, Vice-Chairman 1
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Vice-Chairman 2 Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Vice-Chairman 2 Pierre Borgeaud 1
Thomas W. Bechtler 1 Thomas W. Bechtler 1 Urs Bühler
Marc-Henri Chaudet 1 Marc-Henri Chaudet 1 Marc-Henri Chaudet 1
Walter B. Kielholz 1 Walter B. Kielholz 1 Michael Hilti
Heini Lippuner 1, 4 Heini Lippuner 1, 4 Klaus Jacobi
1 1
Alexandre F. Jetzer
Member of the Audit Committee Member of the Audit Committee
2 2
Hedi Lang
Member of the Compensation Committee Member of the Compensation Committee
3 3
Lukas Mühlemann 1
From 9 March 2000 From 28 March 2000
4 Until 9 March 2000 4 Until 28 March 2000
HONORARY CHAIRMAN
Dr. Hans Braunschweiler
1 Member of the Board Committee
INDEPENDENT AUDITORS INDEPENDENT AUDITORS INDEPENDENT AUDITORS
KPMG Klynveld Peat Marwick KPMG Klynveld Peat Marwick PricewaterhouseCoopers AG, Zürich 1
Goerdeler SA, Zurich Goerdeler SA, Zurich KPMG Klynveld Peat Marwick
Goerdeler SA, Zürich 2
1 Until 29 March 2000
2 From 29 March 2000
Advisory Board International
Switzerland Advisory Board
Ulrich Bremi, Chairman Flavio Cotti, Chairman
Urs Lauffer, Vice-Chairman Franco Bernabè
Franz Albers Kim Clark
Truls D. Berg Mario A. Corti
Susy Brüschweiler Thierry Desmarest
Martin Candrian Fritz Gerber
Melchior Ehrler Rainer E. Gut
Brigitta M. Gadient Michael Hilti
Riccardo Gullotti Andreas W. Keller
Rainer E. Gut Helmut Kohl 1
Urs Hammer Andreas N. Koopmann
André Kudelski Jorge Paulo Lemann
Heini Lippuner 1 Lukas Mühlemann
Paul Meier 1 Agostino Rocca
Rosmarie Michel Manfred Schneider
Lukas Mühlemann Ernst Tanner
Erich Müller 1 Mandate suspended at his own
Gaudenz Staehelin request
Hans-Peter Zehnder
Roland Zimmerli
1 As of 28 April 2000
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4. EXECUTIVE BOARDS OF THE BUSINESS UNITS
CREDIT SUISSE CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON WINTERTHUR GROUP
EXECUTIVE BOARD EXECUTIVE BOARD EXECUTIVE BOARD
Rolf Dörig, Allen D. Wheat, Thomas Wellauer,
Chief Executive Officer Chief Executive Officer Chief Executive Officer
Alfred M. Banz Richard E. Thornburgh Herman Aaftink
Bruno Bohlhalter Vice-Chairman Giovanni Bagiotti
Bruno Bonati Paul Calello Manfred Broska
Beat M. Fenner Christopher Carter Markus Dennler
Walter Fluck Brady W. Dougan Hansjörg Frei
Dominique Folletête Christopher A. Goekjian Erwin W. Heri
Gerhard Gastpar Stephen A.M. Hester Hans-Rudolf Strickler
Franz-Josef Groth David C. Mulford Willi Suter
Hans Ueli Keller John Nelson
Ulrich Körner Stephen E. Stonefield
Rolf Kränzlin Charles G. Ward III
Hanspeter Kurzmeyer
Peter Lienhart
Bruno Pfister
Martin Wetter
CREDIT SUISSE CREDIT SUISSE
PRIVATE BANKING ASSET MANAGEMENT
EXECUTIVE BOARD EXECUTIVE BOARD
Oswald J. Grübel, Phillip M. Colebatch,
Chief Executive Officer Chief Executive Officer
Christoph Ammann Toshio Fukuda
Thomas Amstutz Joseph Gallagher
Peter A. Derendinger Andrew McKinnon
Reto Donatsch Robert Parker
Aldo B. Leoni William W. Priest, Jr.
Heinz Roth Dilip Rasgotra
Olivier Steimer Laurence R. Smith
Alex W. Widmer Steen Steincke
Alexandre Zeller Timothy T. Taussig
Heinrich Wegmann
Edgar Weissenberger
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5. LOCATIONS WORLDWIDE
CREDIT SUISSE
GROUP
Headquarters in Zurich
CREDIT SUISSE
239 locations in
Switzerland
CREDIT SUISSE
PRIVATE BANKING Beijing
51 locations in Boston
Switzerland Budapest
Abu Dhabi Buenos Aires
Athens Cairo
Barcelona Chicago CREDIT SUISSE
Beirut Frankfurt ASSET MANAGEMENT
Berlin Guernsey 7 locations in Switzerland
Bogotá Hong Kong Budapest
Buenos Aires Houston Frankfurt
Cairo Istanbul Guernsey
Caracas Jakarta London Frankfurt
Dubai Johannesburg Luxembourg Glostrup
Frankfurt Kiev Madrid Guangzhou
Gibraltar Kuala Lumpur Milan Hamburg
Guernsey Labuan Moscow Hamilton, Bermuda
Hamburg Limassol Nassau Hong Kong
Hong Kong London New York Jakarta
Houston Los Angeles Paris Johannesburg
Istanbul Madrid Prague Lisbon
Kuala Lumpur Manila São Paulo London
London Melbourne Sydney Los Angeles
Luxembourg Mexico City Tokyo Luxembourg
Madrid Milan Warsaw Lyon
Mexico City Montreal Madrid
Miami Moscow WINTERTHUR Mexico City
Milan Mumbai 634 locations in Melbourne
Monaco Nassau Switzerland Milan
Montevideo New York – 6 branches Montgomery
Munich Palo Alto – 8 regional Munich
Nassau Paris managements New York
New York Philadelphia – 150 general agencies Ningbo
Paris Prague – 470 agencies Paris
Rio de Janeiro San Francisco Amsterdam Prague
Santiago de Chile São Paulo Barcelona Quebec
São Paulo Seoul Basingstoke São Paulo
Singapore Shanghai Beijing Shanghai
Taipei Singapore Bellevue Simsbury
Vienna Sydney Berlin Singapore
Taipei Boston Stockholm
CREDIT SUISSE Tashkent Brno Stuttgart
FIRST BOSTON Tokyo Bromley Sun Prairie
Switzerland Toronto Brunei Sydney
(Geneva, Lugano, Zug, Vienna Brussels Taipei
Zurich) Warsaw Budapest Tianjin
Amsterdam Wellington Buenos Aires Tokyo
Atlanta Chicago Toronto
Auckland Copenhagen Vienna
Baltimore Dallas Warsaw
Bangkok Dusseldorf Wiesbaden
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6. INFORMATION FOR INVESTORS
Credit Suisse Group shares (CHF 20 par value)
Ticker symbols
Stock exchange listings Bloomberg Reuters Telekurs
Swiss Exchange (SWX) CSGN SW CSGZn.S CSGN,001
Frankfurt CSHN GR CSGZn.F 876800,13
Tokyo 8653JP CSGZn.T N1492,106
Also traded in
New York (ADR)* CSGKY US CSGKY.OB CSGKY,130
London (SEAQ) CSG LI CSHZnq.LT C2,182
Paris (OTC) CSHR FP CSHZ.PA 916190,25
*4 ADR = 1 registered share
Swiss security number 146248
ISIN number CH0001462487
CUSIP number 225 401 108
RATINGS
Agencies Credit Suisse Group Credit Suisse Credit Suisse First Boston Winterthur
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Fitch IBCA, New York AA – F1+ AA – F1+ AA F1+ AA –
BankWatch, New York AA TBW1 AA+ TBW1 AA TBW1
Enquiries Annual reports may be ordered from
CREDIT SUISSE GROUP CREDIT SUISSE
Investor Relations CIDM 23
Gerhard Beindorff, Andreas Peterlik P.O. Box 100
Tel.: + 41 1 333 45 70, + 41 1 333 31 69 8070 Zurich
Fax: + 41 1 333 25 87 Switzerland
Mailing address: P.O. Box 1, 8070 Zurich, Switzerland Fax: + 41 1 332 72 94
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