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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.
Chris Nolan promoted to Head of Surety US, Zurich North America
23rd August 2024
Zurich North America, the commercial property and casualty insurer, has promoted Chris Nolan to Head of Surety in US National Accounts, succeeding Bob Murray, who retired in June. In the role, Nolan will oversee both contract and commercial surety, which provides both account-based and transactional surety bonds for Zurich's customers across ... Read the full article
Hiscox names Colin Keogh Interim Chair following tragic death of Jonathan Bloomer
23rd August 2024
Hiscox has confirmed that Senior Independent Director Colin Keogh will be taking up the mantle as Interim Chair following the tragic death of Jonathan Bloomer. Before his passing, Bloomer pursued a successful portfolio career with a range of largely financial services companies. He was Chair of Morgan Stanley International, DWF Group PLC ... Read the full article
Thain and Ah-See join Hymans Robertson risk transfer team in Scotland
23rd August 2024
Hymans Robertson, a pensions and financial services consultancy, has announced the appointment of two new hires to its Edinburgh office, Catherine Thain and Christian Ah-See who are joining the firm as Risk Transfer Specialists. “We are delighted to welcome Catherine and Christian to the risk transfer team at Hymans Robertson and ... Read the full article
CLARA hires Spaulding as CIO, Toll as VP of Sales for Self-Insured
22nd August 2024
CLARA Analytics, a provider of artificial intelligence (AI) technology for insurance claims optimization, has announced the appointment of Robin Spaulding as Chief Insurance Officer, and Greg Toll as Vice President of Sales for Self-Insured. In her new role, Spaulding will advise clients on operational best practices to fully leverage AI opportunities ... Read the full article
Shawn Johnson named CEO of Aegon Asset Management
22nd August 2024
Life insurer and asset manager Aegon has announced the appointment of Shawn Johnson as the new CEO of Aegon Asset Management (Aegon AM) and a member of Aegon’s Executive Committee. This appointment will take effect on September 23, with Johnson succeeding Bas NieuweWeme, who has decided to pursue career opportunities outside ... Read the full article
Swiss Re’s Lubomir Varbanov expands role to oversee global MDB collaboration
22nd August 2024
Lubomir Varbanov is assuming additional responsibilities at Swiss Re, expanding his current role as Managing Director, Head of Public Sector Solutions for Asia Pacific to include global accountability of the company's work with Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs). In a recent LinkedIn post, Veronica Scotti, Chairperson Public Sector Solutions at Swiss Re, ... Read the full article
Gen Re promotes Beardsley and Kang to strengthen Mutual Practice team
22nd August 2024
Gen Re, the global reinsurance subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, has appointed Craig Beardsley as Treaty North America Manager for its Mutual Practice team, while Erin Kang has been named Chief Underwriter for the same team, alongside her ongoing role managing Regional & Specialty Underwriting. Beardsley has worked at Gen Re for ... Read the full article
McGriff appoints Kelly Ward as Producer in its Mining Practice
22nd August 2024
McGriff, a US retail insurance broker, has announced the appointment of Kelly Ward as a Producer in its Mining Practice. In this role, she will provide insurance and risk transfer solutions to companies in the mining industry. Ward brings nearly two decades of experience in engineering consulting for the mining sector. She joins ... Read the full article
EagleView appoints Courtney Cooke as VP, Enterprise Growth
21st August 2024
EagleView, a provider of aerial imagery, has announced the appointment of Courtney Cooke as Vice President (VP) of Enterprise Growth. Piers Dormeyer, CEO of EagleView, stated, “We support 9 out of the top 10 insurance companies in North America as well as a wide range of carriers from farm bureaus to ... Read the full article
Aon’s Aurori joins Ascot’s U.S. Excess Casualty team as VP, Northeast Region
21st August 2024
Ascot, the Bermuda-based global specialty insurance company, has announced that Derek Aurori has joined the company's U.S. Excess Casualty team, taking on the role of Vice President for the Northeast region. Based in New York, Aurori joins the firm following a near 10-year tenure at global re/insurance group Aon. During his time ... Read the full article
Aon appoints Sinead Wolfe as Business Development Specialist, Credit Solutions
21st August 2024
Global insurance and reinsurance broking group Aon has recently appointed Sinead Wolfe as Business Development Specialist, Credit Solutions in Ireland. Suzanne Hughes, Head of Credit Solutions, Ireland, expressed enthusiasm for Wolfe’s appointment, stating, “Sinead is a fantastic new addition to the Aon Credit Solutions team. Her depth of knowledge and expertise ... Read the full article
Miller expands Accident & Health team with the addition of Alessia Lombardi
21st August 2024
Miller, the independent specialist in (re)insurance broking, has appointed Alessia Lombardi as an Account Executive within its Accident & Health team. Lombardi will begin her role in September 2024, reporting directly to Tim Nagle, Head of Sports & Entertainment at Miller. With over 20 years of experience in the Lloyd’s and international ... Read the full article
Guy Carpenter bolsters NA Regional Mutual and Personal Lines teams
21st August 2024
Guy Carpenter, the reinsurance broking division of Marsh McLennan, has appointed Ridge Muhly as the Regional Mutual Segment Leader, effective August 19th, based in Philadelphia and Adam Kornick as the Personal Lines Segment Leader, effective September 3rd, based in Chicago. The pair will report to Rob McKenzie, President of Sales and ... Read the full article
Industry veteran Mark Rusas named EVP, MD of Alliant Specialty M&A
21st August 2024
Alliant Insurance Services has hired industry veteran Mark Rusas to co-lead its Mergers & Acquisitions specialty practice as Executive Vice President, Managing Director, Alliant Specialty. Based in New York, Rusas will be joining Jonathan Gilbert, Managing Director, and Daniel Schoenberg, Executive Vice President in shaping and executing the strategic vision and ... Read the full article
Bob James named CEO of Velonetic, Callum Gibson to serve as COO
20th August 2024
Velonetic, previously known as London Market Joint Ventures, has announced Bob James as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Callum Gibson as its Chief Operating Officer (COO), effective immediately. Velonetic is the trading name of Ins-sure Holdings Limited and Xchanging Claims Services Limited, the joint ventures between DXC Technology, the ... Read the full article
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