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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.
Kemper names C. Thomas Evans, Jr., as Interim CEO as Lacher steps down
16th October 2025
US-based insurer Kemper Corporation has appointed C. Thomas Evans, Jr., the current Executive Vice President (EVP), Secretary, and General Counsel, to serve as Interim Chief Executive Officer (CEO) as Joseph P. Lacher, Jr. steps down. Lacher departs the roles of President and CEO after nearly a decade, and will conclude his ... Read the full article
Optio Group names Harald Teige as Head of Coastal Marine at S Insurance AS
16th October 2025
Optio Group, a specialty MGA, has announced the appointment of Harald Teige as Head of Coastal Marine at S Insurance AS (S Insurance), an Optio company. Based in Oslo, Teige will report to Morten F. Basthus, Chief Underwriting Officer, and has taken up the position with immediate effect. Teige has more than ... Read the full article
Georgina Smart named HDI Head of Global Risk Bloodstock & Equine
16th October 2025
HDI Global, a commercial and specialty lines insurer, has announced the appointment of Georgina Smart as Head of Global Risk Bloodstock & Equine, based in London. Smart will lead the insurer’s bloodstock and equine underwriting and distribution strategy across international markets and the US. The executive brings a wealth of experience to ... Read the full article
Meta’s Prashant Ratanchandani joins Lemonade’s Board of Directors
15th October 2025
Lemonade, the AI-powered digital insurance company, has announced the addition of Prashant Ratanchandani to its Board of Directors. Ratanchandani currently serves as Meta’s Vice President of Engineering for AI Products, where he leads the engineering teams responsible for building Meta’s generative AI products. He has spent the past seven years at Meta, ... Read the full article
Balavant Insurance Group names Michael Sothen CFO and Omeed Kazemi COO
15th October 2025
Balavant Insurance Group, a provider of specialty insurance solutions, has announced two senior executive appointments to strengthen its leadership team. Michael Sothen has been named Chief Financial Officer, and Omeed Kazemi joins as Chief Operating Officer. Sothen, a finance executive with more than 25 years of experience, will oversee Balavant’s financial strategy, ... Read the full article
Canada Life appoints Dominic Carpenter as Commercial & Strategy Director, BPA
15th October 2025
Canada Life has announced the appointment of Dominic Carpenter as Commercial & Strategy Director, Bulk Purchase Annuities (BPA), effective 6th October 2025. In his new role, Carpenter will lead the commercial development of Canada Life’s bulk annuities business and drive initiatives across commercial strategy, reinsurance, and pricing to support its BPA ... Read the full article
QBE appoints Insaf Idelhaj as Senior Manager, Cyber Services & Risk Engineering
15th October 2025
Commercial insurer QBE has announced the appointment of Insaf Idelhaj to the newly created role of Senior Manager – Cyber Services and Risk Engineering, supporting the delivery of QBE’s cyber insurance growth strategy. Based in Paris, Idelhaj has joined QBE’s global cyber services team and will report to Dominic Keller, Global ... Read the full article
Acquinex announces senior hires to drive European expansion
15th October 2025
Acquinex, the specialist financial lines managing general agent (MGA), has announced a number of senior appointments across Europe as part of its wider continental expansion strategy. Antonio Jesús Sánchez Martín has been appointed Head of Southern Europe. He will report to Josh Cowen, CEO of Acquinex, and lead the business in ... Read the full article
Canopius appoints Rachel Webber as Head of Reinsurance, UK
15th October 2025
Canopius Group, a global specialty and Property & Casualty re/insurer, has announced the appointment of Rachel Webber to the newly created role of Head of Reinsurance, UK. In this new role, Webber will be responsible for evaluating Canopius’ UK reinsurance portfolio to further enhance the company’s value proposition and services. She will ... Read the full article
Dynamic Re names Miriam Ávila García as CUO
15th October 2025
Dynamic Reinsurance, an underwriting agency providing facultative and treaty reinsurance, has announced the appointment of Miriam Ávila García as Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO). She brings nearly three decades of re/insurance industry experience, joining Dynamic Reinsurance from Swiss Re, where she served as Senior Property Products Underwriter. Dynamic Reinsurance said, “With over 27 ... Read the full article
Howden appoints Susan Panuccio as CFO, Mark Craig to become CIO
15th October 2025
Global insurance and reinsurance broking group Howden has announced the appointment of Susan Panuccio as its new Group Chief Financial Officer (CFO), with Mark Craig set to take on the new position of Chief Investment Officer (CIO). Craig steps into his new role after six years leading Howden’s Finance function through ... Read the full article
Miller adds David Robinson as CEO and Neil Ross as CUO of its MGA platform
15th October 2025
Miller, the independent specialist insurance and reinsurance broker, has scaled the operations of its Managing General Agent (MGA) offering with the appointment of David Robinson as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Neil Ross as Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO). In their new roles, the pair will drive the strategy and expansion of ... Read the full article
Allianz UK appoints Mansoor Reehana as Head of AI
15th October 2025
Allianz UK, part of the financial services group Allianz SE, has appointed Mansoor Reehana to the newly created role of Head of Artificial Intelligence (AI), to lead the strategic growth of AI initiatives. In his new role, Reehana will drive strategy, architecture, and product delivery of AI projects within the central ... Read the full article
Hardeep Gulati named CEO of Duck Creek Technologies
14th October 2025
Duck Creek Technologies, a provider of software solutions for property and casualty (P&C) and general insurance, has announced the appointment of Hardeep Gulati as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), succeeding Mike Jackowski. Jackowski, who has led Duck Creek as CEO since 2011, will transition to a new role as Vice ... Read the full article
Chubb names Brian Church to lead international Property and Casualty Division
14th October 2025
Property and casualty insurer Chubb has announced the appointment of Brian Church as Division President of Property and Casualty for Chubb Overseas General Insurance (COG), the company’s international general insurance division, with the appointment taking effect immediately. In this role, Church will lead Chubb’s international commercial property and casualty (P&C) insurance ... Read the full article
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