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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.
Marsh Asia appoints Brent Clawson as Global Placement Leader
6th January 2025
Insurance broker and risk advisor Marsh has announced the appointment of Brent Clawson as Global Placement Leader for Marsh Asia. Clawson brings nearly two decades of industry experience, particularly in Asia. He has been working at Marsh for over a year now, joining the firm in September 2023 as Insurer Consulting ... Read the full article
Newline Group adds Malcolm Newman as a Non-Exec Director
6th January 2025
Newline Group, a specialty insurance provider, has appointed Malcolm Newman as a new Non-Executive Director. Newman is a re/insurance industry veteran with over four decades of experience, most recently serving as the Chairman of Tindall Riley & Co., before which he served as a Non-Executive Director. His career started as a Trainee ... Read the full article
Encik Zaid appointed Officer in Charge, Labuan Re
3rd January 2025
Labuan Reinsurance (L) Ltd (Labuan Re) has appointed Encik Zaid Aziz Ibrahim as its Officer in Charge, following the recent departure of Puan Johana Era Zainuddin on December 31, 2024. Encik Zaid currently serves as the firm's Chief Underwriting Officer. He has been with the organisation since February 2020. Overall, he brings ... Read the full article
Brian Young takes over as President of Fairfax Insurance, Carl Overy now CEO of Odyssey
3rd January 2025
Canadian financial holding company, Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited, has appointed Brian Young as President of Fairfax Insurance Group, with Carl Overy taking over as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Odyssey Group, effective January 1st, 2025. Young, who joined Odyssey in 1996 and served as its CEO since 2011, assumes the role ... Read the full article
Kettle names Jeff Chen as Chief Risk Officer
31st December 2024
Kettle, an AI-enabled re/insurer for commercial property owners in areas affected by catastrophic climate events, has appointed Jeff Chen as Chief Risk Officer to lead risk management and actuarial. With this appointment, Kettle aims to meet its mission of protecting communities from the increasing threat of wildfires. Chen has nearly two decades ... Read the full article
Swiss Re appoints Aisyah Fuad as Market Head Southeast Asia (South)
30th December 2024
Global reinsurer Swiss Re has announced the appointment of Aisyah Fuad as Market Head Southeast Asia (South), effective 1 January 2025. Fuad joined Swiss Re in 2011 as an Associate Client Manager, Retakaful, where she worked as a multi-line treaty underwriter and client manager for the company’s Global Centre of Excellence ... Read the full article
Hiscox names Frank Lamantia as Chief Technology Officer, US
30th December 2024
Specialist insurer Hiscox has appointed Frank Lamantia as its new Chief Technology Officer in the U.S., where he will serve on the Hiscox US leadership team and the Hiscox Group Technology leadership team, effective January 21st, 2025. Lamantia will have a dual reporting line to Mary Boyd, the Chief Executive Officer ... Read the full article
CRC expands team with Moody’s Schmitt, Berkley’s McPhillips, Velocity’s Cadden & Amwins’ Rios
30th December 2024
CRC Group, a wholesale specialty insurance distributor in North America, is expanding its team with the addition of four new professionals to its team, Michael Schmitt, Sean McPhillips, Bailey Cadden and Blake Rios. Schmitt, who is joining CRC from Moody’s, has been appointed Broker and will be based at the company’s ... Read the full article
Florida Re names Jeremy Baczkiewicz as CUO
27th December 2024
Florida Insurance and Reinsurance Company (Florida Re), a property and casualty re/insurer serving commercial clients across Florida, has appointed Jeremy Baczkiewicz as its new Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO). Baczkiewicz brings over 21 years of experience in underwriting management and strategic operations within the insurance and reinsurance sectors to Florida Re. In his ... Read the full article
Industry veteran Brian Simpson appointed Equisoft’s VP, Insurance Solutions
24th December 2024
Equisoft, a global provider of digital business solutions for the insurance and wealth industries, has appointed Brian Simpson as Vice President, Insurance Solutions, USA. With over three decades of experience in the life, health, and annuity sectors, Simpson is joining the sales team for Equisoft's insurance solutions in the US. Commenting on ... Read the full article
EigenRisk names Rebecca Morris as Vice President of Customer Success
24th December 2024
EigenRisk, Inc., a provider of catastrophe risk management solutions, has appointed Rebecca Morris as Vice President of Customer Success. Headquartered in Minneapolis, EigenRisk specialises in delivering cloud-based tools for managing property/casualty risks, providing insurers, reinsurers, and other risk managers with powerful data analytics and modelling capabilities. In her new role, Morris will ... Read the full article
Alta Signa Europe promotes Vasileios Stasa to Junior Underwriter in Cyber division
24th December 2024
Alta Signa Europe B.V., a European boutique Managing General Agent (MGA), has recently announced the promotion of Vasileios Stasa to Junior Underwriter within its Cyber division, effective immediately. Vasileios joined Alta Signa in May 2024 as an Underwriting Analyst, following the completion of his Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Banking, ... Read the full article
Acrisure’s Volante Global appoints Martin Reith as Executive Chairman
23rd December 2024
Volante Global, an international Managing General Agent (MGA) and Lloyd’s Syndicate, has announced the appointment of Martin Reith as its new Executive Chairman. In his new role, Reith will focus on enhancing Volante Global’s underwriting strategy and ensuring it aligns with the company’s long-term goals and market opportunities. He will also ... Read the full article
Symenouh joins Arch Insurance as Senior Cyber Underwriter
23rd December 2024
Arch Insurance, a division of Bermuda-based re/insurer Arch Capital Group, has appointed Ezechiel Symenouh as a Senior Cyber Underwriter, based in Paris, effective immediately. Symenouh joins Arch Insurance (EU) dac (AIEU), which provides specialist property and casualty insurance solutions within the European Union. The AIEU cyber division provides standalone and combined Cyber ... Read the full article
AXA XL appoints Tellekamp as CUO for Construction and Energy
23rd December 2024
AXA XL, the property and casualty (P&C) and specialty risk division of global insurer AXA, has appointed Jon Tellekamp as Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO), Construction and Energy. In the new role, Tellekamp reports to Donna Nadeau, Head of Large Commercial, and will lead AXA XL's combined Construction and Energy underwriting and ... Read the full article
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