Marina Cvetkovic

Marina Cvetkovic is a trusted C-Suite coach and advisor – she combines strong financial services background with coaching expertise to help companies and executives redefine their processes as well as build a culture of agility and innovation to successfully face disruption in the market. Currently, Marina is the Vice President of Strategy and Chief of Staff to the CEO at Swiss Re (SIX:SREN), the $34B global/largest reinsurance company worldwide. Her focus is on strengthening the culture of agile innovation for a 4'000 employee organization. She has been selected as the Winner of the prestigious 2019 FinNext Award for her innovative and forward looking contribution to the financial services industry.

She coaches numerous executive teams and senior vice presidents in the area of executive presence and emotional intelligence, as a certified emotional intelligence and management coach and advisor. Prior to this, Marina has gained substantial leadership experience driving growth for Big 4 and Fortune 500 companies globally.

BOARD EXPERTISE: Marina is the founder of The Peak Alliance, a NYC based consultancy focused on executive coaching and board advising. She is a trusted board member and advisor, focusing on revolutionizing the boardroom to complement digital transformation in underlying organizations. Marina is a board advisor for Rutgers University, Leading Disruptive Innovation Executive Education Program as well as a board member and strategy committee co-chair at Governance Matters, with a mission to build high-performing boards in NY. She studied board governance with the most respected thought leaders in the field at the Wharton School executive program “Boards that Lead”. She is a strong advocate of board diversity and regularly mentors aspiring directors.

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP: Marina’s thought leadership on Board Governance is published on Forbes. She is also a featured thought leader on Insurtech matters featured on the number one platform in the industry, Insurance Thought Leadership. She is a frequent keynote speaker on board effectiveness, leadership and disruption for the prestigious Conference Board Executive Coaching Conference in NYC, Disruption & Innovation Forum NYC, TEDx salons etc. Marina is the founder of TEDx BethuneStreet, a highly influential platform for TED-like ideas worth spreading in NYC. Marina is an ICF certified executive coach and a faculty member in the EQ Coaching Certification program founded by Prof. Daniel Goleman, pioneer of emotional intelligence. She teaches Leadership and EQ at St John's University Executive Education in NYC. Her work has been published by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and she served on the Panel of Judges for the ICF International Prism Award, with a mission to annually award the company with the highest coaching standards in the world.

GIVING BACK: Marina gives back generously by advising boards of not-for-profit organizations. She is a board advisor for SixDegrees.org, a charity founded by Hollywood actor Kevin Bacon, with a mission to improve exposure and better outreach of small grassroots non-profit organizations. She is also a board advisor for The New York Mindful Capoeira Center with a mission to teach mindful capoeira in all city schools.

LIFE-LONG STUDENT: Currently studying Cybersecurity at Harvard Business School and Digital Transformation at Berkeley, University of California

GLOBAL CITIZEN: Belgrade/Zurich/currently NYC. Speaks Serbian, English, German, Italian, Spanish