Global Benefits Vision: Good morning, Peter. Perhaps you’d like to start off with the highlights of your career. Peter de Vries: I joined IGP in 1988, when I was just a “slip of a lad”, to head up the European region, which, at the time and still today is the largest region for IGP in terms of premium. While most of our clients, about 55 percent, are North American multinationals, most of the premium is paid in the European region.

Peter de Vries pdevries@jhancock.com John Hancock Financial Services Head of the IGP network Peter de Vries was born in Amsterdam (1956), the Netherlands, and educated in the United Kingdom. After a short (6 years) career in banking in the UK, he moved back to the Netherlands and spent six years working in international employee benefits for Nationale-Nederlanden Leven, a major Dutch life insurance company. In 1985, he set up