Advanced Technology Assurance Limited (ATA) has appointed Loren Nickel and Brian Warren to its Board of Directors, subject to customary regulatory approvals.
The pair will facilitate building ATA into a property and casualty insurance partner for small, middle, and large businesses globally that own, operate, develop, or manufacture advanced technologies across every sector of the economy.
Currently, Nickel leads the risk and insurance team at Alphabet & Google, navigating it through significant advancements in AI, cloud computing, development of self-driving vehicles, and supporting technical infrastructure needs with safe and efficient data centre growth.
He also led the first indemnity earthquake catastrophe bond for a corporate. In the past, Nickel has served as the Chairman and President of the M200 Risk Organisation, one of the insurance industry’s associations of risk management professionals.
Most recently, Warren led the risk and insurance team at Microsoft, retiring after twenty-five years at the firm, and just under a decade with Allstate. At Microsoft, he led, collaborated, and managed commercial and captive insurance solutions across software and intellectual property, cyber risk, life/health for employee benefits, trade credit, reinsurance, and data centre construction.
Michael Coles, Chairman, ATA, commented on the appointment, “Loren and Brian know what ATA’s customers want and need. They’ll help us develop preeminent insurance products and facilities.”
Nickel added, “ATA understands the needs of risk managers and CFOs at the world’s most innovative companies. Sounds simple, but surprisingly rare in a 300-year-old insurance industry.”
Warren said, “Loren and I are going to help build ATA to be the insurance partner we wish we had. Brokers will be putting their clients in good hands with ATA.”
Additionally, the ATA has also launched its ‘highly technical, remarkably straightforward’ service for brokers at Box 355A in Lloyd’s.
Alistair Blundy, Chief Executive Officer, ATA, stated, “We are strong believers in in-person trading. As risks evolve, face-to-face underwriting delivers clarity, trust, and better outcomes. It is the foundation on which Lloyd’s has been successful for centuries, and the same face-to-face approach is at the heart of ATA’s philosophy.”
