Team
We are a team of re/insurance and financial services professionals that understands your business.
HENNER ALMS
PARTNER
Henner is a highly experienced corporate communications professional, developing and implementing strong, innovative communications strategies that help clients to meet their business objectives.
ANDREAS BOLLMANN
PARTNER
Andreas supports clients in achieving resilient and scalable growth by providing strategic advisory services, facilitating regional collaboration, and delivering comprehensive support for disaster risk financing and insurance programme implementation.
SIMONE LAUPER
PARTNER
Simone is a communications specialist with extensive reinsurance industry experience. She works with organisations and senior executives, providing guidance on positioning, reputation management, crisis communication, and strategies for integrated content and media communication.
SARA THOMAS
SENIOR ASSOCIATE
Sara is a professional re/insurance writer, editor, researcher and content production manager, ensuring that clients’ content and key messaging – for all aspects of re/insurance and lines of business, and irrespective of subject complexity - is concise, clear and impactful.
HENNER ALMS
PARTNER
ha@faberconsulting.ch
EXPERTISE
- Developing and implementing strong communication strategies and measures aligned to clients’ unique business objectives.
- Well-connected to a large network of long-standing international contacts in the financial and trade media.
- Utilising a vast repertoire of innovative solutions to help clients build a distinct profile for their stakeholders.
LANGUAGES
German, English
BIO
Henner Alms is a founding partner of Faber. He has more than 20 years of experience in strategic and corporate communications, gained primarily in financial services and also in the consumer goods and the medtech industries.
Prior to founding Faber in 2008, Henner was Head of Media Relations at Swiss Re, responsible for the company’s global media communications and financial reporting. Before that, he was a spokesperson at Sulzer Medica, a global leader in medical devices. Henner began his communications career with Kraft Foods, first in Germany and later in Switzerland.
Henner holds a Master’s degree in Arts from the University of Hamburg, Germany.
ANDREAS BOLLMANN
PARTNER
ab@faberconsulting.ch
EXPERTISE
- Designing and executing resilience and growth strategies tailored to clients’ strategic objectives
- Financial and competitor analysis, supported by deep market research
- Implementation support for Disaster Risk Transfer and Financing (DRFI) solutions, including sovereign risk transfer mechanisms and public–private financing structures
- Capacity building and training in DRFI
- Extensive network across the international re/insurance industry and within public-sector institutions, including regulators and development finance organisations
LANGUAGES
German, English, Japanese, French
BIO
Andreas has more than 25 years of experience in international reinsurance, with a strong background in non-life underwriting, financial modelling, valuation, risk management and strategic business development across Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
Andreas joined Faber in 2013 from Saudi Re, a Riyadh-based reinsurer, where he served as Chief Underwriting Officer. Prior to that, he held several senior roles at Swiss Re, including Head of Public Sector Business Development for Asia/Australia in Singapore, Head of the Korea Branch in Seoul, and Account Executive for Japan, based in Munich, Zurich, and Hong Kong.
Before entering the reinsurance industry, Andreas served in the German Army as a helicopter pilot and Public Relations Officer. He holds an MSc in East Asian Studies, with a specific focus on economics, political science and Japanese, from Duisburg University in Germany.
SIMONE LAUPER
PARTNER
sl@faberconsulting.ch
EXPERTISE
- Positioning organisations and their executives through integrated communications strategies and campaigns that reflect clients’ objectives and key stakeholders
- Managing reputation, and handling issue and crisis communications in sensitive and complex situations
- Planning and delivering internal and external communications to support change initiatives
- Developing content, strategic messaging, ghost-written texts and publication research and writing, including support for financial reporting
- Planning and managing media activities, drawing on a broad international network across the trade media
LANGUAGES
German, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
BIO
Simone is a communications specialist with long-standing experience in reinsurance and banking.
Prior to joining Faber in 2019, Simone spent more than 20 years in senior management positions in leading financial services institutions. Simone joined Faber from Tokio Millennium Re, where she was Head of Corporate Communications, in charge of the company’s repositioning before its acquisition in 2019. Prior to that, she held senior roles at Swiss Re, most recently as Head of Internal Communications, and before that as Head of Media Relations & Financial Reporting, a role that she held during the financial crisis. Before joining the reinsurance industry, Simone was a Private Banking client advisor at UBS in Switzerland, the USA and Brazil.
Simone holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a Master’s degree in Political Science from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
SARA THOMAS
SENIOR ASSOCIATE
st@faberconsulting.ch
EXPERTISE
- Partnering with re/insurance company executives and business line experts to transfer their insights, differentiators and key messaging – including complex material - into clear, impactful content for their clients.
- In-depth research into all aspects of re/insurance, from risk and market trends to geopolitical, climate change and macroeconomic impacts to support insights generation and enhance marketing content.
- Re/insurance writing, editing, researching, technical reviewing, proofreading, content production management and brand-aligned layout/designs.
- Market survey planning, interviewing, results analysis and interpretation/ write-ups.
LANGUAGES
English, German
BIO
Sara is a highly proficient re/insurance writer, editor and content production manager with deep industry knowledge of all aspects of re/insurance and lines of business, and a strong scientific academic background. She has over 25 years of re/insurance marketing and corporate communications experience, and a solid career base in insurance underwriting, claims and reporting.
Sara joined Faber in 2023 from a 20+ year career with PartnerRe, where she was most recently Senior Writer & Editor, responsible for producing all the company’s research reports, articles and market surveys. Prior roles at PartnerRe included Client Relations Assistant and Assistant Underwriter Casualty. She began her re/insurance career as a Management Trainee with Commercial Union (now Aviva) in London.
Sara has a doctorate (D.Phil.) and bachelor (BA, Hons) degree in Earth Sciences from the University of Oxford, UK, and is an Associate and Chartered Insurance Practitioner of the UK’s Chartered Insurance Institute.
Clients
We work with insurers, reinsurers, brokers, MGAs, associations, asset managers and think tanks in all global regions, helping our clients to enhance their brand value, achieve their business objectives and promote resilience and sustainable development.
Milestones
Supporting clients since 2008, our consultancy's key milestones include:
