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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.
BF&M recruits Bruce Walker as Group CFO
13th May 2022
BF&M Limited, the Bermuda-based re/insurance holding company, has appointed Bruce Walker as EVP, Group Chief Financial Officer of the BF&M Group. Within this role, Walker brings over 25 years of extensive risk and capital management experience. In addition to being a former CFO and transformational leader at ACE INA Insurance, Walker most ... Read the full article
Peak Re names David Menezes as Deputy Chief Risk Officer
12th May 2022
Hong Kong domiciled reinsurer Peak Re has announced the appointment of David Menezes as Managing Director, Deputy Chief Risk Officer. Menezes, who currently serves as Chief Reserving Actuary at Peak Re, will take over his new position from Eckart Roth, who plans to retire in September after a 30-year career. In this ... Read the full article
Allianz (AGCS) announces key leadership changes
12th May 2022
Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) has announced that Mike Martin has been appointed as Global Head of Property, effective May 16, 2022. Within his new role, Martin will report directly to Chief Underwriting Officer Corporate, Shanil Williams. He will also succeed Maria Grace who left AGCS in late 2021, and ... Read the full article
MS Amlin appoints Julie Ferguson to a new role
12th May 2022
MS Amlin Underwriting has appointed Julie Ferguson to be its new head of open market property. Ferguson will join the company in the coming months and will report directly to Sam Geddes, head of property and allied lines. She joins from Axis where she has spent the last five years as ... Read the full article
Measured names Nick Little as Head of Insurance
12th May 2022
Measured Analytics and Insurance, a data and analytics-driven cyber insurer, has appointed Nick Little as Head of Insurance. Little will be part of the company’s leadership team, where he will drive innovation, efficiency, and progressive disciplined underwriting as well as expanding the distribution of Measured’s products. He has been serving in various ... Read the full article
Ontellus appoints Vince Cole as Chief Executive Officer
11th May 2022
Ontellus, one of the largest records retrieval and claims intelligence companies in the US, has announced that it has appointed Vince Cole as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective immediately. The company is backed by Aquiline Capital Partners (Aquiline), a private investment firm based in New York and London, with $8.7 ... Read the full article
Goosehead names new President & COO, among key management changes
11th May 2022
Independent personal lines insurance agency, Goosehead, has announced several management changes. Mark K. Miller, a current member of Goosehead’s Board of Directors, has been appointed President and Chief Operating Officer (COO), effective immediately. Miller takes over the role from former President and COO, Michael Colby, who has left the company to pursue ... Read the full article
Mt. Logan Re hires Youssef Sfaif as COO
11th May 2022
Mt. Logan Re, Ltd. the third-party capital arm of Bermuda-based reinsurer Everest Re, has appointed Youssef Sfaif as Chief Operating Officer (COO), effective July 1, 2022. Sfaif joins Mt Logan at an important time in the company’s growth and expansion and will report directly to John Modin, President of Mt. Logan. Sfaif ... Read the full article
Hamilton Select Insurance makes senior underwriting appointments
10th May 2022
Hamilton Select Insurance Inc., Hamilton’s newly-launched E&S insurer has announced two senior underwriting appointments. Devon Minarik has been appointed as Head of US Small Business Casualty Insurance, and Logan Kirkland has been appointed as Head of US Products Liability & Contractors Insurance. Reporting to Hamilton Select Insurance Inc. CEO Clay Rhoades, Minarik ... Read the full article
AXA XL makes Al Baker permanent head of construction in UK and Lloyd’s markets
10th May 2022
AXA XL has promoted Al Baker to be its new head of construction in the UK and Lloyd’s markets. Baker has been in the role on an interim basis since September. He will be responsible for leading AXA XL’s construction business for the UK & Lloyd’s region and driving its strategic, ... Read the full article
RLI names two new leaders
10th May 2022
US property and casualty insurer RLI Corp. has appointed two leaders to new roles. The company has announced that Donald Johnson has been promoted to Vice President, RLI Professional Services Group, and that Bret Stone has joined the company as Vice President, Data & Analytics. In his new role, Johnson will have ... Read the full article
Toa Re hires Tom Passante as SVP and senior actuary
10th May 2022
Toa Re has appointed Tom Passante as senior vice president and senior actuary. Passante will report directly to Julie Halper, executive vice president and chief actuary, in his new role. Halper, meanwhile, was appointed to her role in August of last year. Dick Sanford, CEO of the firm, said: “Tom is ... Read the full article
Everest Reinsurance names Jiten Voralia to new role
10th May 2022
Everest Reinsurance has named Jiten Voralia as its incoming senior vice president and head of treaty casualty and surety. Voralia will begun his new role on 6 June and will report directly to Jill Beggs, head of North America reinsurance. Beggs said in a statement: “We are thrilled to welcome Jiten to ... Read the full article
QBE names Andy Fitzgerald as Director of UK Regions
10th May 2022
QBE has announced the appointment of Andy Fitzgerald as Director, UK Regions. Fitzgerald was previously QBE UK Insurance Division’s Regional Manager for the North Region, having joined QBE in 2012. In the newly created role, he will now be responsible for the leadership of the UK regions and focus on growing these ... Read the full article
Manulife hires Aravind Srinivas as Chief Risk Officer, Asia
10th May 2022
Canadian multinational insurer Manulife has appointed Aravind Srinivas as its new Chief Risk Officer, Asia and Head of Global Product and Insurance Risk Management. His appointment is effective as of May, 9 2022. Within his new role, Srinivas will jointly report to Anil Wadhwani, President & CEO, Asia, and Rahim Hirji, Global Chief ... Read the full article