1. BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVE BOARD OF CREDIT SUISSE GROUP
Board of Directors Independent Auditors
Rainer E. Gut, Chairman 1, 2, 3 KPMG Klynveld Peat
Peter Sp−lti, Marwick Goerdeler SA,
First Vice-Chairman 1 Zurich
Robert L. Genillard,
Vice-Chairman 1, 2, 3
Ulrich Albers 5
Thomas W. Bechtler 1, 3
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe
Ulrich Bremi 1, 2
Rainer E. Gut
Marc-Henri Chaudet 1
Born 1932. Chairman of the
Gerald Clark
Boards of Directors of Credit
Arthur Dunkel 3
Suisse Group, Credit Suisse
Adolf Gugler 3
and Credit Suisse First Boston.
John M. Hennessy
Heini Lippuner 1
Thomas Schmidheiny 3
Vreni Spoerry 3
Aziz D. Syriani 4
Theodor M. Tschopp
Daniel L. Vasella
1 Member of the ChairmanÕs
With the Annual General Meeting on 29 May 1998
Committee
Ulrich Albers will reach the age limit for membership of
2 Member of the Compensation
the Board of Directors and will therefore be stepping
Committee
down from this body. Mr Albers has been closely linked
3 Subject to re-election at the
with Credit Suisse Group for more than 30 years:
Annual General Meeting on
from 1967 to 1997 he was a Member of the Board of 29 May 1998
Directors of the former Credit Suisse, and since 1989
4 Subject to election at the
he has also sat on the Board of Directors of CS Holding, Annual General Meeting on
29 May 1998
now Credit Suisse Group. The Board of Directors and
Executive Board of Credit Suisse Group would like to extend 5 Until 29 May 1998
their thanks to Mr Albers for his valuable services and his
considerable contribution to the success of the Group.
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2. Executive Board
Lukas Mühlemann Richard E. Thornburgh Paul Meier
Hans-Ulrich Doerig
Born 1950. Chief Executive Born 1952. Chief Financial Born 1945. Chief Executive
Born 1940. Vice Chairman of
Officer of Credit Suisse Group. Officer of Credit Suisse Group. Officer of Credit Suisse.
the Executive Board and Chief
Risk Officer of Credit Suisse
Group.
Oswald J. Grübel Allen D. Wheat Phillip M. Colebatch Thomas Wellauer
Born 1943. Chief Executive Born 1948. Chief Executive Born 1944. Chief Executive Born 1955. Chief Executive
Officer of Credit Suisse Private Officer of Credit Suisse First Officer of Credit Suisse Officer of Winterthur Group.
Banking. Boston. Asset Management.
Changes in the Executive Board
Senior Executives,
In March 1998, Klaus Jenny, formerly Chief Executive Officer of Credit Suisse Private
Corporate Centre
Banking, decided to pursue other activities outside Credit Suisse Group. He took this
Ahmad Abu El-Ata, Technology
step on friendly terms with Credit Suisse Group. The Board of Directors would like to
Kurt Arnold, Tax
express their sincere gratitude to Mr Jenny, who had been with Credit Suisse since
Peter Bachmann, Accounting
1972, for his highly valuable services and his substantial personal commitment.
Peter Derendinger, General Counsel
Rolf Dörig, Chief of Staff and
Oswald J. Grübel, previously responsible for global trading at Credit Suisse First Boston,
Chief Communication Officer
was appointed new Chief Executive Officer of Credit Suisse Private Banking.
Alfred Gremli, Advisory
Tobias Guldimann, Risk Management
On 1 January 1998 Hans-Ulrich Doerig assumed the function of Chief Risk Officer of
Urs Hänni, Audit
Credit Suisse Group. At the same time, he was appointed Vice Chairman of the
Philip Hess, Corporate Secretary
Executive Board. Up until this date, Mr Doerig held the position of Chief Executive
Jean-Pierre Huwyler, Security
Officer of Credit Suisse First Boston, responsible primarily for the integration of CS First
Eugen Schmid, Human Resources
Boston, Credit Suisse Financial Products and the corporate and trading operations of
the former Credit Suisse into Credit Suisse First Boston.
Allen D. Wheat, formerly Chief Operating Officer of Credit Suisse First Boston, was
appointed new Chief Executive Officer of Credit Suisse First Boston.
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3. BOARDS OF DIRECTORS OF CREDIT SUISSE AND CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON
EXECUTIVE BOARDS OF THE BUSINESS UNITS
BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF CREDIT SUISSE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF
Rainer E. Gut, Chairman 1, 2 CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON
Robert L. Genillard, Vice-Chairman 1, 2 Rainer E. Gut, Chairman 1, 2
Richard Andermatt, Vice-Chairman 3 Robert L. Genillard, Vice-Chairman 1, 2
Thomas W. Bechtler 1 Franz Albers
Truls D. Berg 3 Thomas W. Bechtler 1
Ulrich Bremi 1, 2 Ulrich Bremi 1, 2, 3
Martin Candrian Marc-Henri Chaudet 1
Marc-Henri Chaudet 1 Mario A. Corti
Jean-Daniel Cornaz 3 Michael Hilti 3
Gianfranco Cotti Klaus Jacobi 3
Hugo von der Crone 3 Andreas W. Keller
Melchior Ehrler Andreas N. Koopmann 3
Riccardo Gullotti 3 Heini Lippuner 1
Urs Lauffer Lukas Mühlemann 1, 2
Heini Lippuner 1 Peter Spälti 1
Rosmarie Michel 3 Aziz D. Syriani 4
Lukas Mühlemann 1 Ernst Tanner
Erich Müller
Peter Spälti 1 INDEPENDENT AUDITORS
Gaudenz Staehelin 3 KPMG Klynveld Peat Marwick
Hans-Peter Zehnder Goerdeler SA, Zurich
Roland Zimmerli
1 Member of the Chairman’s Committee
INDEPENDENT AUDITORS
2 Member of the Compensation Committee
KPMG Klynveld Peat Marwick
Goerdeler SA, Zurich 3 Member of the Audit Committee
4 Until 29 May 1998
1 Member of the Chairman’s Committee
2 Member of the Compensation Committee
3 Member of the Audit Committee
CREDIT SUISSE CREDIT SUISSE PRIVATE CREDIT SUISSE CREDIT SUISSE
EXECUTIVE BOARD BANKING EXECUTIVE FIRST BOSTON EXECUTIVE ASSET MANAGEMENT
BOARD BOARD EXECUTIVE BOARD
Paul Meier, Oswald J. Grübel, Allen D. Wheat, Phillip M. Colebatch,
Chief Executive Officer Chief Executive Officer Chief Executive Officer Chief Executive Officer
Alfred M. Banz Christoph Ammann Brady W. Dougan Heinz Hofmann
Bruno Bohlhalter Peter Bretscher Christopher A. Goekjian Philip K. Ryan
Bruno Bonati Reto Callegari Stephen A.M. Hester Heinrich Wegmann
Beat M. Fenner Reto Donatsch Marc H. Hotimsky Toshio Fukuda 1
Walter Fluck Andrew McKinnon 1
Aldo B. Leoni David C. Mulford
Dominique Folletête Robert J. Moore 1
Heinz Roth Stephen E. Stonefield
Gerhard Gastpar Robert Parker 1
Jörg H. Schwarzenbach Franz von Meyenburg
Franz-Josef Groth William W. Priest, Jr. 1
Ruedi Stalder Charles G. Ward III
Hans Ueli Keller Dilip Rasgotra 1
Olivier Steimer
Ulrich Körner William Sterling 1
Sergio Zoppi
Rolf Kränzlin Timothy T. Taussig 1
Hanspeter Kurzmeyer Edgar Weissenberger 1
Peter Lienhart
1 Member of the Operating
Martin Wetter
Committee
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4. BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WINTERTHUR
WINTERTHUR GROUP EXECUTIVE BOARD
BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF
WINTERTHUR INSURANCE AND WINTERTHUR LIFE
Peter Spälti, Chairman 1,2
Heini Lippuner, Vice Chairman 1
Pierre Borgeaud 1
Marc-Henri Chaudet 1,2
Lukas Mühlemann 1
Urs Bühler 2
Michael Hilti
Klaus Jacobi 2
Alexandre F. Jetzer
Martin Kohlhaussen
Hedi Lang 2
HONORARY CHAIRMAN
Hans Braunschweiler
INDEPENDENT AUDITORS
Revisuisse Price Waterhouse AG, Zurich
1 Board Committee
2 Subject to re-election at the Annual General Meeting
on 28 May 1998
WINTERTHUR GROUP
EXECUTIVE BOARD
Thomas Wellauer,
Chief Executive Officer
Herman Aaftink
Manfred Broska
Gerhard Christen
Markus Dennler
Hansjörg Frei
Erwin W. Heri
Bruno Meyenhofer
Hans-Rudolf Strickler
Willi Suter
Hans Frey1
Michael Köhler1
1 Member of the Extended
Executive Board
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5. LOCATIONS ON WORLD MAP
CREDIT SUISSE Atlanta
GROUP Auckland
Headquarters in Zurich Bangkok
Beijing
CREDIT SUISSE Boston
244 locations in Brussels
Switzerland Budapest
Buenos Aires
CREDIT SUISSE Cairo
PRIVATE BANKING Chicago
50 locations in Frankfurt
Switzerland Guernsey
Abu Dhabi Helsinki
Barcelona Hong Kong
Berlin Houston
Bogota Jakarta
CREDIT SUISSE
Buenos Aires Johannesburg
ASSET
Cairo Kiev
MANAGEMENT
Caracas Kuala Lumpur
7 locations in
Dubai Labuan
Switzerland
Frankfurt Limassol
Budapest
Gibraltar London
Frankfurt
Guernsey Los Angeles
London
Hong Kong Dallas
Luxembourg
Luxembourg
Houston Dublin
Madrid
Milan
Kuala Lumpur Guangzhou
Manila
Moscow
London Hamburg
Melbourne
New York
Los Angeles Hong Kong
Mexico City
Paris
Luxembourg Jakarta
Milan
Prague
Madrid Johannesburg
Montreal
Sydney
Manama Lisbon
Moscow
Tokyo
Melbourne London
Mumbai (formerly
Warsaw
Mexico City Luxembourg
Bombay)
Miami Lyon
Nassau
WINTERTHUR
Milan Madrid
New York
694 locations in
Monte Carlo Mexico City
Osaka
Switzerland
Montevideo Milan
Palo Alto
– 14 regional
Montreal Montgomery
Paris
managements
Munich Munich
Philadelphia
– 160 general agencies
Nassau New York
Portland
– 520 agencies
New York Ningbo
Prague
Amsterdam
Paris Paris
San Francisco
Barcelona
Rio de Janeiro Prague
Santiago de Chile
Basingstoke
San Francisco São Paolo
São Paulo
Beijing
Santiago de Chile Shanghai
Seoul
Bellevue
São Paolo Simsbury
Shanghai
Bermuda
Singapore Singapore
Singapore
Bonn
Tokyo Stockholm
Sydney
Brno
Toronto Sun Prairie
Taipei
Bromley
Vancouver Sydney
Tashkent
Brunei
Vienna Taipei
Tehran
Brussels Tianjin
Tokyo
Budapest
CREDIT SUISSE Tokyo
Toronto
Buenos Aires
FIRST BOSTON Toronto
Vienna
Cayman Islands
Switzerland (Geneva, Vienna
Warsaw
Chicago
Zug, Zurich) Warsaw
Wellington
Copenhagen
Amsterdam 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 – 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
Long term Short term Long term Short term Long term Short term
Moody’s, New York A1 – Aa3 P1 Aa3 P1 Aa2
Standard & Poor’s, New York AA– A1+ AA– A1+ AA A1+ AA–
Fitch IBCA, London AA– F1+ AA– F1+ AA F1+
BankWatch, New York AA TBW1 AA+ TBW1 AA+ TBW1
Credit Suisse Financial Products carries the same ratings as Credit Suisse First Boston.
Enquiries Annual reports may be ordered from
CREDIT SUISSE GROUP CREDIT SUISSE
Investor Relations Dept. CIDM 23
Gerhard Beindorff P.O. Box 100
Tel: + 41 1 333 45 70 CH-8070 Zurich
Fax: + 41 1 333 25 87 Switzerland
Mailing address: P.O. Box 1, CH-8070 Zurich, Switzerland Fax: + 41 1 332 72 94
Internet: http://www.csg.ch
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7. Photography
Charlie Westerman, Chicago
Iris C. Ritter, Zurich
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Neidhart + Schön AG, Zurich
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