POWER OF ATTORNEY

The undersigned directors and officers of Zurich American Life Insurance Company, an Illinois corporation, hereby constitute and appoint Laura J. Lazarczyk, Stefan Dunajewski, and Prithpal Ruprai, and each of them (with full power to each of them to act alone), his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution to each, for him or her and on his or her behalf and in his or her name, place and stead, to execute and file any of the documents referred to below relating to Registration Statements under the Securities Act of 1933 and under the Investment Company Act of 1940 listed below with respect to the variable annuity contracts issued or to be issued through the ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account: registration statements on any form or forms under the Securities Act of 1933 and under the Investment Company Act of 1940, any and all amendments and supplements thereto, with all exhibits and all instruments necessary or appropriate in connection therewith, and all applications for any exemption from the federal securities laws, each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents and him, her or their substitutes being empowered to act with or without the others or other, and to have full power and authority to do or cause to be done in the name and on behalf of the undersigned each and every act and thing requisite and necessary or appropriate with respect thereto to be done in and about the premises in order to effectuate the same, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, may do or cause to be done by virtue thereof. This Power of Attorney may be executed in any number of counterparts.

REGISTRATION STATEMENTS

 

Registrant Name

  

File Nos.

ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account    333-22375/811-3199
ZALICO Variable Annuity Separate Account    002-72671/811-3199

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set his/her hand on the date set forth below.

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Name

  

Title

  

Date

/s/ Debra Broek

   Director    4/5/2023
Debra Broek      

/s/ David J. Fike

   President, Chief Executive   
David J. Fike    Officer, and Director    4/8/2023

/s/ Richard Hauser

   Assistant Secretary and   
Richard Hauser    Director    4/5/2023

/s/ Peter Hirs

   Director    4/5/2023
Peter Hirs      

/s/ Mark Knipfer

   Director    4/5/2023
Mark Knipfer      

/s/ Laura J. Lazarczyk

   Corporate Secretary and   
Laura J. Lazarczyk    Director    4/5/2023

/s/ Richard Patrick Kearns

   Director    4/5/2023
Richard Patrick Kearns      

/s/ Angela J. Yochem

   Director    4/6/2023
Angela J. Yochem      

 

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