Markel Corporation has appointed Helen Xu as Senior Director, Markel Specialty Programs.
She will lead triaging and onboarding new programs as well as portfolio management for the existing and newly delegated programs for the Markel Specialty division.
With over 20 years of experience, Xu’s most recent position was with QBE North America as Vice President, Program Due Diligence and Program Management.
There she was responsible for triaging and assessing new program opportunities, managing the due diligence and vetting process, and building analytical models while assuming profit and loss responsibility of newly launched programs.
Prior to QBE, Xu was the Westchester Programs Strategy Analysis and Senior Program Manager for Chubb.
Jeff Lamb, Executive Director, Programs and Alliances, Markel Specialty commented: “We are excited for Helen to lead the continued growth of Markel Specialty Programs. She is a collaborative leader with fluency in program strategy, triaging, onboarding, due diligence, data and analytics, and program portfolio management.”
“Markel has been in the program space for more than 40 years. With improved market conditions, we have been able to work with a robust pipeline of opportunities and in a position to increase our program implementation.
“With Helen’s expertise, we look forward to continuing to build our Specialty Programs team and provide unique capabilities.”
