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News on insurance and reinsurance industry hiring, appointments and people move news and announcements. Covering key hires and people moves across the global reinsurance, commercial and specialty insurance markets.
Rick Grimes named National Wholesale Practice Leader of One80 Intermediaries
19th January 2023
Specialty insurance broker One80 Intermediaries has appointed Rick Grimes as National Wholesale Practice Leader. In the role, Grimes will lead One80’s wholesale distribution strategy for key lines of business, which includes property, casualty, financial lines, excess, life sciences and environmental coverages. Prior to this appointment, Grimes served as Managing Director & Financial ... Read the full article
Great American announces leadership promotions within P&C Group
18th January 2023
Great American Insurance Group has announced the promotions of Brian D. DeSoto, Carrie A. Little and Richard L. Suter to the role of Divisional Group President. DeSoto joined Great American in 2008, when he started his career at the firm serving in their Corporate Claims Division. In 2010, he then joined ... Read the full article
Active Re appoints top execs to global credit & surety team
18th January 2023
Active Re, a provider of reinsurance solutions for financial institutions, has announced additions to its Credit & Surety team, naming Erik Feigelson Johansson, as Head of Global Credit & Surety Underwriting and Nathalie Gordon, as Senior Underwriter – Credit & Surety. Ramon Martinez Carrera, the CEO of Active Re, made the ... Read the full article
Dawn Rizzi named AVP of Broker Assumed Underwriting team at AmericanAg
18th January 2023
Global reinsurer AmericanAg has appointed Dawn Rizzi as Assistant Vice President – Underwriting/Marketing. Within this role, she will hold responsibility for underwriting a portion of the reinsurers Broker Assumed portfolio, including international treaty business in the UK, Latin America, and Central-Eastern Europe regions. Rizzi joins AmericanAg from EMC Reinsurance Company, where she ... Read the full article
Nassau appoints Christine A. Janofsky as CFO
18th January 2023
Financial services company Nassau Financial Group has appointed Christine A. Janofsky as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Janofsky joins Nassau from eHealth, Inc., a publicly traded insurance distribution company, where she held the role of CFO. Before joining eHealth, she spent eight years working at Lincoln Financial Group, where she served ... Read the full article
Christopher Evans to build out Howden CAP capability in APAC
18th January 2023
International insurance broker, Howden has announced the appointment of Christopher Evans as Executive Director, Howden CAP. Based in Brisbane, Evans joins the new division as it builds out its geographical footprint, bringing expertise and new capabilities for the benefit of clients in Asia Pacific. According to the announcement, with this appointment, Howden ... Read the full article
AM Specialty bolsters underwriting operation with senior hires
18th January 2023
AM Specialty Insurance Company (ASIC), a domestic excess and surplus insurer and accredited reinsurer, has announced the appointment of Dominick Tassone Jr. as Chief Underwriting Officer, and Anne Hoffmans as SVP of Program Underwriting. Tassone, the newly appointed CUO, holds over four decades of primary insurance experience, having spent the last ... Read the full article
Mark Dyson takes on interim role as CEO of Lloyd’s Asia
18th January 2023
Insurance and reinsurance marketplace Lloyd’s has appointed Mark Dyson as Interim CEO of Lloyd's Asia and Country Manager Singapore, taking over from Thomas Haddrill. It was announced last month that Haddrill would depart Lloyd’s for a new role as Head of Broking for the CEEMEA region at WTW. Dyson, who currently ... Read the full article
Miller names Moore Account Executive in its Sports & Entertainment team
18th January 2023
Independent specialist re/insurance broker Miller has announced the appointment of Steve Moore as an Account Executive in its Sports and Entertainment team. Moore holds over three decades of industry experience, having spent the majority of his career at SBJ, which has since become Marsh Commercial. Here, he was responsible for assisting with ... Read the full article
Jennifer Gravelle becomes Kingstone’s Chief Financial Officer
17th January 2023
Kingstone Companies, P&C insurance holding company, has announced the appointment of Jennifer Gravelle as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Gravelle brings to Kingstone more than two decades of experience in the P&C insurance industry and expertise in coastal-focused property insurance specifically. She commented:“I’m excited to be joining Kingstone at this pivotal moment for ... Read the full article
Liberty Specialty Markets promotes O’Neill to CUO London
17th January 2023
Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM) has promoted Melanie O’Neill to the role of Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO) in London, effective immediately. Within her new role, O’Neill will hold responsibility for setting and delivering the underwriting strategy and annual underwriting plan for LSM’s London-based Commercial and Specialty business. Previously Chief Underwriting Officer, Commercial, O’Neill ... Read the full article
Oxbridge Re signs up new director
17th January 2023
Oxbridge Re Holdings Limited has appointed Arun Gowda to serve as an independent director on the Board of the Company, effective immediately. Gowda will also serve as a director of Oxbridge Reinsurance Limited (OxRe), subject to approval of the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA). Oxbridge Re stated that Gowda’s appointment was made ... Read the full article
SSIU names Andrew Fowles Chief Underwriting Officer
17th January 2023
South Shore Insurance Underwriters (SSIU), a niche, cat exposed, commercial and residential property surplus lines brokerage and MGA, has announced the appointment of Andrew Fowles as new Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO) Fowles brings a wealth of experience on the carrier side having worked in both Lloyd’s of London and the US ... Read the full article
WTW names Tony Yen Head of Taiwan
17th January 2023
Broking and solutions company, WTW has appointed Tony Yen as Head of Taiwan. Yen succeeds Charles Wang who retired from the role in December 2022. Overall, Yen, who joined WTW in 2015, brings over 20 years of risk engineering, risk management and insurance broking experience towards his new role. In addition to his ... Read the full article
VIG Re announces host of transitions within its senior management team
16th January 2023
VIG Re, the reinsurance company of Vienna Insurance Group, has announced that Cristina Ferrari will become the new Chief Underwriting Officer, while Catrina Gemmerich will become the new Managing Director of VIG Re’s German Branch. VIG Re states that the changes to the leadership team come in accordance with the established ... Read the full article