Corporate Information Security Roundtable

Christian Zeller

Group CISO and Head of the CISO Office
Swiss Mobiliar Insurance

Christian Zeller was born 1962 in Bern (Switzerland), is married, has three adult children and is resident in the region of Bern, the capital of Switzerland. He has degrees as dipl. Kaufmann HKG with an Executive Master of Business Administration SMP St. Gallen and an additional CAS in Sourcing- and Cloud-Management from the University of St. Gallen. For more than two years he has been working in Swiss Mobiliar and developed, with his team, the CISO Office being responsible for Cyber Security, IT Governance, Risk and Compliance in IT, Business resilience and the IT Security Architecture. Formerly, he had different roles and functions (first as SW developer, project manager, line manager in the swiss-start-up of an international company, IT-Operations Manager incl. the SOC and eight years as CIO of a large IT Organization in Switzerland) in various companies. Working on a broad range of topics like ERP, customer specific software development in commercial environment, sales in international IT provider companies, Project Manager in extensive and important projects and as line Manager in a basic supply organization of Switzerland, delivering with his organization and teams a significant contribution to Switzerland’s modern infrastructure.