Gallagher, a global insurance broking and risk management company, has announced the appointment of Rawden Leigh as Head of Retail in its Financial Institutions practice.
Gallagher’s specialist Financial Institutions practice provides risk advice, programme design, placement and claims management across a broad range of financial lines products. The team works with clients to address the professional, crime, financial, transactional, regulatory and management liability exposures faced by them, their portfolio companies, and their directors and officers.
Based in London, Leigh will lead Gallagher’s client proposition for retail financial institutions across the UK and Europe. He will report to David Rogers, Managing Director of Financial Institutions at Gallagher.
He brings more than 20 years of insurance industry experience, combining extensive knowledge of the financial institutions market with a strong track record in senior leadership, business development and complex risk solutions.
Leigh joins Gallagher from Marsh, where he spent nearly eight years as a Managing Director in its FINPRO practice, most recently leading its UK private capital and M&A business. His client base has ranged from start-ups to the world’s largest private equity, private capital and investment groups.
Prior to that, he held roles at WTW, Lockton and Howden.
Rogers commented, “The risk landscape for financial institutions is becoming more interconnected and less predictable with issues including private credit, liquidity, regulatory change, catastrophe exposure and increasing claims severity, alongside disruptive forces such as AI and geoeconomics all playing a role. Rawden brings impressive knowledge of the risks facing financial institutions and he is a fantastic asset to our growing team.”
Leigh added, “Gallagher has a strong reputation across the financial institutions market and is a business with real momentum and an entrepreneurial culture. I’m excited to join and look forward to working with David and colleagues across the business to help clients understand their evolving exposures and find solutions that support their growth.”
