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AXA UK & Ireland appoints Caroline Riddy as General Counsel
2nd April 2026
AXA UK & Ireland has announced the appointment of Caroline Riddy as General Counsel, effective 7th April 2026. Riddy succeeds Emily Coupland, who left the company in December after 24 years working across AXA’s various UK entities. Riddy brings more than two decades of legal and company secretariat experience within financial services. Most ... Read the full article
Pain joins AXA UK & Ireland as Chief Communications, Customer, Brand and Sustainability Officer
16th January 2025
AXA UK & Ireland has consolidated its external communications, internal communications, customer, and brand functions, along with its sustainability agenda, into a new leadership role: Chief Communications, Customer, Brand and Sustainability Officer. This position will be filled by Sally Pain, who will also become a member of AXA UK & Ireland’s ... Read the full article
AXA XL appoints Lahrmann as Senior Underwriter, Intl Property, Insurance UK & Lloyd’s
18th August 2022
AXA XL Insurance has appointed Sabrina Lahrmann as Senior Underwriter, International Property, UK & Lloyd’s, with immediate effect. Within her new role, Lahrmann will be responsible for helping to deliver the strategic and profitable growth of AXA XL’s International Property book of business in the UK, as well as establishing and ... Read the full article
AXA signs multimillion-pound deal with ROCK Insurance
4th July 2022
AXA Partners UK & Ireland and ROCK Insurance Group have announced a multimillion-pound extended partnership, which follows a previous collaboration in 2021. Having launched in June, this partnership will see AXA underwrite a number of ROCK Insurance Group’s Travel Insurance policies. These include Jet2, Onthebeach, Travel Republic, Insurefor, Leisure Guard and Big ... Read the full article
AXA UK names WTW’s Ovenden as CUO of Commercial business
22nd September 2021
AXA UK has appointed former Willis Towers Watson executive David Ovenden to serve as Chief Underwriting Officer of its Commercial business. He succeeds David Williams who after 41 years in the role is set to depart in search of non-executive roles at the year's end. At WTW, Ovenden spent 3 years leading ... Read the full article
AXA UK makes two leadership appointments
26th April 2021
AXA UK Retail Insurance has appointed Marco Distefano as Managing Director for Motor and Home and Anna Fleming as Chief Operating Officer. The two senior hires will help the business achieve its strategic ambitions and build on its innovative value proposition for customers. Marco Distefano joins next month as Managing Director for ... Read the full article
Tara Foley named CEO of AXA UK Retail Insurance
15th October 2020
AXA UK & Ireland has announced the appointment of Tara Foley as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of AXA UK Retail Insurance. Effective November 2nd, Foley’s appointment will also see her become a member of the UK & Ireland Management Committee. Foley joins AXA from Lloyds Banking Group (LBG), where she has been ... Read the full article
AXA UK broadens use of live video to settle commercial property claims
2nd June 2020
AXA UK is set to broaden its use of live video to settle commercial property claims, as the insurer renews its contract with software provider Verisk. The ClaimXperience app is already being used by AXA’s household customers, who can show escape of water damage in real time to their home insurer. The ... Read the full article
Shali Vasudeva to leave Hiscox for AXA UK COO role
22nd January 2019
Shali Vasudeva is set to join AXA UK and Ireland from insurer Hiscox as Chief Operating Officer (COO), a newly created position, effective March 1st, 2019. The appointment remains subject to regulatory approval, and will see Vasudeva deliver more robust operational stability across the firm, as well as lead a Transformation ... Read the full article
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