Reinsurance News
People moves
News on insurance and reinsurance industry hiring, appointments and people moves. News and announcements covering key hires and people moves across the global reinsurance, commercial and specialty insurance markets.
Gordon Watson elected to Liberty Mutual Insurance’s Board
12th June 2025
Tim Sweeney, Chairman and CEO of Liberty Mutual Insurance, has announced that Gordon Watson has been elected to the company's board of directors. Watson brings over three decades of experience in the insurance sector. He recently served as Chair of AXA Asia and CEO of AXA Asia & Africa, where he ... Read the full article
WTW adds Scott Van Slyck and Kate Gingras to Insurance Consulting and Technology team
12th June 2025
Insurance and reinsurance broking group WTW has appointed Scott Van Slyck as Senior Director of Technology Sales and Kate Gingras as Director of Strategy Execution within its Insurance Consulting and Technology (ICT) business. The pair will report to Giovanni Smyth, Americas Regional Leader for the ICT business. However, Slyck has an ... Read the full article
Guy Carpenter’s Ian Wrigglesworth elected as President of the AIA
12th June 2025
Guy Carpenter, the reinsurance broking arm of Marsh McLennan, has congratulated Ian Wrigglesworth on his election as President of the Aviation Insurance Association (AIA) for the 2025–2027 term. The AIA is a professional organisation dedicated to the aviation insurance sector, serving as a platform for networking and education for underwriters, brokers, ... Read the full article
Specialist Risk Group appoints Neil Nimmo as CEO – UK
12th June 2025
Specialist Risk Group (SRG), an insurance intermediary backed by Warburg Pincus and Temasek, has announced the appointment of Neil Nimmo as CEO – UK. In his new role, Nimmo will oversee SRG’s Retail, Wholesale, and Underwriting businesses in the UK. His leadership will be key to scaling the Group’s successful model ... Read the full article
Stuart Logue named new CFO of Asta Managing Agency
12th June 2025
Asta, a third-party managing agent at Lloyd’s, has appointed Stuart Logue as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Asta Managing Agency, subject to regulatory approval. Logue replaces Richard Barke, who is moving to a senior leadership role at Asta’s owner, Davies. Incoming Logue holds more than 30 years of management experience across the ... Read the full article
Aon appoints Chalisa Maythangkul as Director, Natural Resources
12th June 2025
Global insurance and reinsurance broker Aon has appointed Chalisa Maythangkul as Director of its Natural Resources team in Asia. Maythangkul brings three decades of industry experience. She joins Aon from Howden Maxi / Howden Singapore, where she served as Executive Consultant. Prior to that, she served as Executive Director at Kyoritsu Insurance ... Read the full article
Compre appoints Rachel Bardon as CUO
12th June 2025
Compre, a Bermuda-domiciled international legacy reinsurance group, has appointed Rachel Bardon to the newly-created role of chief underwriting officer (CUO), effective 1st September 2025. Based in Bermuda, Bardon will join Compre’s executive committee and report to Group CEO Will Bridger. She will also join the board of Compre’s Bermuda-based reinsurer, Pallas ... Read the full article
Howden Re adds Lockton’s John Philipsz as MD, Head of Australia & New Zealand
12th June 2025
Howden Re, the reinsurance and strategic advisory division of global broking group Howden, has appointed John Philipsz as Managing Director (MD), Head of Howden Re Australia and New Zealand, effective July 1st, 2025, reporting to Andy Souter, Head of Asia Pacific, Howden Re International. Philipsz succeeds Stuart Beatty, who after 38 ... Read the full article
Lockton Re appoints Daryl Polenz as Senior Broker
12th June 2025
Lockton Re, the reinsurance arm of independent insurance broker Lockton, has appointed Daryl Polenz as a Senior Broker, based in Kansas City. Polenz has over three decades of extensive experience in the property & casualty (P&C) reinsurance space, of which he spent ten years at industry giant Swiss Re. Most recently, he ... Read the full article
Hayden Smith promoted to Regional CEO of United Risk
11th June 2025
United Risk, a global property and casualty insurance underwriting and distribution platform, has promoted Hayden Smith to Regional CEO. In this role, Smith will oversee the company’s EU, UK, and British Commonwealth business, managing further expansion in these regions and other emerging markets. He will be based in the company’s London ... Read the full article
Amynta Risk Solutions appoints Alan Wiederhold as President of A&H
11th June 2025
Amynta Risk Solutions has announced the appointment of Alan Wiederhold as President of Accident & Health (A&H). In this role, Wiederhold will be responsible for expanding Amynta Risk Solutions’ product offerings and strengthening its value proposition for the company’s clients and broker partners. With over 30 years of healthcare leadership experience, Wiederhold ... Read the full article
Verisk strengthens PCS leadership with strategic appointment and new structure
11th June 2025
Verisk, a data analytics and technology provider to the insurance and energy industries, has announced a refreshed leadership structure for its Property Claims Services (PCS) unit. This initiative is aimed at strengthening PCS’s support for the re/insurance market and expanding its ability to respond to both natural and specialty catastrophe events. As ... Read the full article
Mercury appoints Bennett to lead new climate science team
11th June 2025
Mercury Insurance, a provider of property and casualty insurance, has appointed Steve Bennett as its Senior Director of Climate and Catastrophe Science, where he will build and lead a team dedicated to helping identify ways Mercury and its policyholders can better prepare for increasingly severe climate-driven weather events. Bennett joins Mercury ... Read the full article
Wajahat Khawaja appointed Head of Governance and Controls at MNK Group
11th June 2025
Wajahat Khawaja has taken on the role of Head of Governance and Controls at MNK Group, an independent organisation operating across various sectors of the insurance industry. Bringing over three decades of experience, including extensive work internationally, Khawaja has contributed to the development of governance frameworks and control mechanisms for leading ... Read the full article
Swiss Re Corporate Solutions appoints Adrian Hall as CEO of United States
11th June 2025
Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, the commercial insurance arm of reinsurance giant Swiss Re, has appointed Adrian Hall as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the United States branch. The firm explained that his leadership marks "a pivotal step in its renewed market unit structure, strengthening the firm's ability to move ... Read the full article
Getting your daily reinsurance news from Reinsurance News is a simple way to receive only the reinsurance industry news that matters, delivered directly to your email inbox.
