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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.
Reask names Louise Braybrooke as new Chief Client Officer
20th September 2022
Reask, a leading science and technology company that focuses on natural hazard modelling, has appointed Louise Braybrooke as its new Chief Client Officer. As a well-known specialist in Technical Sales, Account Management, and Customer Success in the catastrophe and geospatial analytics vertical, Braybrooke has deep knowledge and experience within P&C insurance, ... Read the full article
Essent Group makes new appointment to board of directors
20th September 2022
Essent Group has appointed Dr. Anu (Henna) A. Karna to its board of directors. Dr. Karna currently served as the global general manager of industry solutions for insurance, reinsurance, and risk management at Google cloud (Alphabet Inc.) since 2020, where she leads the global insurance strategy, solutions, and innovation. From 2017 ... Read the full article
Compre appoints RiverStone’s Bouvier as North American claims director
20th September 2022
Compre, the Bermuda headquartered international legacy group, has appointed claims veteran, Bill Bouvier as Claims Director, North America, effective immediately. He will be based in Compre’s Connecticut office and will report to David Presley, CEO, North America. Within this role, Bouvier will be responsible for leading the North American claims team in ... Read the full article
Swiss Re’s Jason Richards joins ABI Board
20th September 2022
ABI has announced that Swiss Re’s CEO UK & Ireland, Jason Richards, will be joining the Board, effective immediately. Richards holds almost three decades of insurance and reinsurance industry experience, having joined Swiss Re in 2006 as part of the GE Insurance Solutions acquisition, and becoming Chief Executive Officer UK ... Read the full article
Guy Carpenter appoints AXIS Re’s Les Loh as Chief Executive of Southeast Asia & Korea
20th September 2022
Reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter has appointed AXIS Re’s Les Loh as deputy chief executive of Southeast Asia and Korea. Loh will join Guy Carpenter in October and will continue to be based in Singapore. He will also report to Bengt Johnsen - CEO of Southeast Asia and Korea at Guy Carpenter. Within this ... Read the full article
WTW brings Alessandro Pesci back into the fold
20th September 2022
Advisory firm WTW has appointed Alessandro Pesci as EMEA reserving practice director in its Insurance Consulting and Technology business. Pesci is returning to the company and will be based in the firm’s Rome office where he will work to support and strengthen client relationships within the EMEA region. He will also ... Read the full article
Asian Re chairman Dennis B. Funa steps down
20th September 2022
Dennis B. Funa has stepped down from his role as chairman at Asian Re. Funa had been expected to serve in his role until next year after being re-elected into his position last year. Prior to this, Funa had been serving his first term of office as chairman of Asian ... Read the full article
Chedid Re appoints Chandan Thakur to role of associate director
20th September 2022
Chedid Re has appointed Chandan Thakur to the role of associate director in its facultative division - financial lines. The Dubai-based Thakur posted on the social media site to say that the firm had promoted him from deputy manager for financial lines. Thakur is taking up his new role after a ... Read the full article
Fusion Specialty welcomes new director to its UK division
20th September 2022
Global M&A insurance specialist, Fusion Specialty, has announced the appointment of Oliver Berridge as director of Fusion Specialty UK. Additionally, Yinan Guo is joining the division as associate. Arriving shortly after the launch of the UK division, Berridge and Guo assume their roles with immediate effect and will report to ... Read the full article
Berkshire Hathaway names top team for new Brussels office
20th September 2022
Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) has named the people forming the senior level of management at its soon-to-be-opened new office in Brussels. The firm said that it was naming Louis du Ché to the role of country manager; Frederic de Blieck as head of executive and professional lines, Belgium; Bram Boets, ... Read the full article
Demex Group hires Bill Clark as its new CEO
16th September 2022
The Demex Group has named Bill Clark as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). As a highly regarded technology executive with more than 20 years of market creation and operation leadership at both VC and PE-backed companies, Clark will bring a strong level of knowledge and experience towards his new role. As CEO ... Read the full article
AGCS names John Gambale to new role
16th September 2022
Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) has named John Gambale as regional head of distribution for North America, large corporate as part of a reorganisation. The firm said that Gambale will join at the beginning of October and will be based in New York, reporting Bill Scaldaferri, CEO and President, AGCS ... Read the full article
AXA XL appoints leaders for new Group Captives unit
16th September 2022
AXA XL’s Primary Casualty Business has appointed both Mark Benz and Joseph Davina to lead the newly created Group Captives unit. Both Benz and Davina will be based in New York and will report to Chris Kopser - President and CUO Primary Casualty, Americas. Benz takes on the role as Head of Group Captives Primary ... Read the full article
Acrisure Re appoints Alex Orloff to new role as it expands division in North America
16th September 2022
Reinsurance broker Acrisure Re is expanding its corporate advisory and solutions division, known as ARCAS, into North America. As part of the expansion, the firm has appointed Alex Orloff to be the managing director ARCAS North America. He will be based in New York and report to Ben Canagaretna, managing director ... Read the full article
Lloyd’s broker Servca makes three senior appointments
16th September 2022
Independent international Lloyd’s broker, Servca, has announced three key appointments to its rapidly growing group. Ian Zammit joins the Servca Board as an experienced Executive Director brought in to head up the company’s newly opened European office in Malta. With over 30 years of industry experience, Zammit brings a wealth of ... Read the full article