The North American arm of re/insurer QBE has added Bobby Steinsdoerfer as Senior Vice President, Regional Underwriting Leader – Central Region.
Additionally, Lucas Prahl has been promoted to Senior Vice President, Regional Underwriting Leader – Western Region.
Steinsdoerfer joins from AIG’s Blackboard Insurance and brings 12 years’ experience to the role.
Before Blackboard he served in a number of leadership roles at Zurich North America.
Prahl joined QBE in 2017 and holds 16 years of industry experience across both underwriting and reinsurance broking.
He had been serving as the P&C-Retail Underwriting Leader of the Central Region since 2019.
He will now co-lead the region with Ed Griffiths, Senior Vice President, Regional Underwriting Leader – Western Region.
Prior to QBE, Prahl served at The Hartford and Chubb.
“We continue to make significant investments to add industry leading talent and capabilities to serve the unique needs of middle market customers,” said Tom Fitzgerald, President of QBE’s Specialty & Commercial business.
“Our business is in growth-mode, and we are excited to be able to add top talent to help us deliver distinct value to customers.”
