General insurance company, RSA Insurance has announced the appointment of Henry Westwood as Senior Specialist Underwriter in its UK Specialty Lines cyber business.
Westwood is to start his new role on May 15; he will be responsible for leading the insurer’s stand alone cyber underwriting practice in the UK.
He joins RSA after serving for over two years at CNA Hardy. Prior to that, he spent over five years at Hiscox, before joining CNA Hardy in 2020 as a technology & cyber risks underwriter, later becoming a senior underwriter in April 2022. He started his career at Towergate Insurance as an assistant underwriter.
RSA also announced that Carol Nguyen, a Senior Technology Underwriter at Intact, will begin a six-month secondment with the team in London on 15 February .
Nguyen started her career at Liberty Mutual Canada in Toronto as an intermediate underwriting operations associate, commercial lines & construction. In 2018, she joined Intact as a specialty solutions underwriter, before becoming a technology underwriter in 2019.
Both Westwood and Nguyen will join existing team members Nicky Parker who is Portfolio Manager for cyber, Mathias Jeppesen who is Cyber Underwriter, and Nigel Pearson, Group Cyber Underwriting Director at RSA Insurance.
Pearson, commented: “The demand for cyber insurance continues to grow in response to an ever increasing frequency of ransomware and data breach incidents. New legislation is also being enacted that addresses cyber security and data privacy in many jurisdictions that will only increase the potential liabilities for organisations. Having a comprehensive product that addresses these issues is very much part of our Specialty Lines strategy.
He added: “I’m therefore delighted to welcome both Henry and Carol to RSA. They’re both great additions and, alongside the team we already have, will support our growth ambitions in this space.”
