Renaud Guidée, currently Chief Risk Officer (CRO) of AXA Group, has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of AXA XL Reinsurance, succeeding Nancy Bewlay.
Guidée took over as AXA Group’s CRO in 2019, having previously served as a Managing Director with Goldman Sachs’ Investment Banking Division.
Effective September 1st, 2023, he is set to take over as CEO of AXA XL Re, which, with a global footprint and a strong balance sheet offers solutions that include property, casualty, and specialty reinsurance.
He assumes the role from Bewlay, who has been appointed Group Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO), a newly created role. In this role, Bewlay joins AXA’s Management Committee and will report to Frédéric De Courtois, Group Deputy CEO.
Scott Gunter, AXA XL’s CEO, commented: “Renaud brings with him a wealth of financial and risk experience having joined AXA in 2019 from Goldman Sachs where he was Managing Director.
“Over the past year we have worked to reposition our Reinsurance portfolio and we are seeing the benefits of this work in our discussions with clients and brokers. I want to take this opportunity to warmly thank Nancy for her leadership of the Reinsurance business and congratulate her on her new role at AXA Group.”
“We have an extremely talented team across reinsurance and there is huge potential for strategic growth in this market,” he added.
