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Liberty Specialty Markets
LSM adds Mandy Macqueen as Chief Digital Transformation Officer
20th October 2020
Liberty Specialty Markets has appointed Mandy Macqueen to the newly created role of Chief Digital Transformation Officer. Mandy brings many years’ experience in major IT and change roles, both in-house and as a consultant. These include managing large IT departments in financial services, including legal and compliance and retail and corporate banking. Macqueen joins ... Read the full article
LSM names Underwriting Manager for Affinity & Program Business
16th October 2020
Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM), part of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, has announced the appointment of Valérie Baucher to the newly created role of Underwriting Manager Affinity and Program Business for Europe. Baucher will be responsible for the underwriting performance and governance in LSM’s new Affinity and Program Business (A&PB) model and ... Read the full article
Liberty Specialty Markets adds Pierre-Édouard Fraigneau as CUO for Europe
1st September 2020
Liberty Specialty Markets, part of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, has appointed Pierre-Édouard Fraigneau to the newly-created role of Chief Underwriting Officer, Europe. Fraigneau joins from Sanlam where he held the position of Commercial Lines Director and Member of the Executive Committee, Pan Africa. He has over 17 years of underwriting and leadership ... Read the full article
Liberty Specialty Markets adds two underwriters to Casualty team
25th August 2020
Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM), a division of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, has announced the appointments of Jonathan Powell and David Bramall as underwriters within its Casualty team, effective immediately. Powell joins LSM as Senior Underwriter for the US book of business, and will report to Phil Stephenson, Senior Underwriter, Excess Casualty. He ... Read the full article
LSM promotes Rainer Rieger to Head of Casualty, Germany
16th July 2020
Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM), part of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, has promoted Rainer Rieger to the role of Head of Casualty Germany. Rieger has worked with the company since 2015 and is replacing Detlef Offenhau, who recently retired from the role. Commenting on the appointment, Ronan Gerety, General Manager of LSM Germany ... Read the full article
Liberty Specialty Markets promotes O’Neill to CUO, Commercial
10th July 2020
Liberty Specialty Markets, a division of insurer and reinsurer Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, has promoted Melanie O'Neill to Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO) of its Commercial arm. O'Neill previously served as Head of Professional Lines at the company and takes up her new role with immediate effect. She takes over as CUO of ... Read the full article
Liberty Specialty reshuffles claims team
11th May 2020
Liberty Specialty Markets, part of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, has promoted Gavin Coley to London Head of Specialty Claims, reporting to Mike Gillett, Chief Claims Officer, LSM. Kevin Miller has joined as the Energy, Property and Construction Technical Claims Lead reporting into Gavin Coley. Both roles are based in London and ... Read the full article
Liberty Specialty Markets appoints Casualty Manager for Continental Europe
16th April 2020
Liberty Specialty Markets, a division of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, has announced the appointment of Katja Bobrowski to the newly created position of Casualty Manager, Continental Europe. Based in Cologne, Bobrowski will report to Head of Liberty Specialty Markets Central Region, Kadidja Sinz. In her new role, she takes responsibility for developing ... Read the full article
Liberty Specialty Markets expands marine team
15th April 2020
Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM), part of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, has promoted Rachel Watkinson to Head of Underwriting, Marine Transportation and Logistics. At the same time, Alex Becker has joined the division and will lead the Hull account as Underwriting Manager for Marine Hull, reporting to Watkinson. In her new role, Watkinson ... Read the full article
LSM Bermuda promotes Tremblay to Chief Risk & Compliance Officer
24th January 2020
Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM), a division of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, has promoted Snjezana Tremblay to Chief Risk & Compliance Officer in Bermuda. Since October 2018, Tremblay has served as Transformation Strategy and Risk Manager, Global Risk Solutions (GRS) Transformation office at Liberty Mutual Insurance. She joined Liberty Mutual after more than ... Read the full article
LMG appoints Liberty Specialty CEO Matthew Moore as chair
22nd January 2020
The London Market Group has announced the appointment of Matthew Moore, Chief Executive Officer of Liberty Specialty Markets, as its new chair. Effective May 1, Moore will succeed Beazley Chief Executive Officer Andrew Horton after two years in the role. “The past few years have seen real shifts in both the external ... Read the full article
Liberty Specialty Markets promotes Meghan Walker to Head of Aviation
10th January 2020
Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM), a division of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, has announced the appointment of Meghan Walker as Head of Aviation for the London Market Specialty division. In this role, Walker will be responsible for delivering LSM’s global Aviation strategy, and for leading and developing aviation underwriting team. Meanwhile, Bill Halligan, ... Read the full article
Liberty Specialty Markets creates new senior terrorism underwriting role
18th December 2019
Liberty Specialty Markets has appointed Jennifer Rubin to a newly created position as Senior Underwriting Executive and Head of Terrorism Underwriting in North America. In this role, Rubin will be based in New York and takes up the position effective immediately. She will report to Alex Montoya, President of US, Bermuda ... Read the full article
Liberty Specialty Markets names President of US, Bermuda & LatAm
9th September 2019
Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM), a division of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, has announced the appointment of Alexander Montoya as President of LSM – US, Bermuda and LatAm, effective immediately. Montoya has served as President of Liberty International Underwriters (LIU) Latin America for the past four years, where he was responsible for ... Read the full article
Liberty Specialty Markets names Antoine Brodu Head of Financial Lines, France
29th August 2019
Liberty Specialty Markets, a division of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, has appointed Antoine Brodu as Head of Financial Lines, France. Brodu's appointment is effective immediately and he joins the firm from AIG France, where he worked for 13 years, most recently as Client Director, Major Accounts. General Manager at Liberty Specialty Markets ... Read the full article