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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.
Miller appoints Kate Levett as Head of Market Management
15th November 2021
Specialist re/insurance broker Miller has announced the appointment of Kate Levett to the newly created role of Head of Market Management. Levett will report to Ken MacDonald, Executive Chairman, and lead the development and coordination of relationships with Miller’s carrier partners. This will include expanding client access to products and services, as ... Read the full article
HDI Global hires Michelle Boyd from AXA XL
15th November 2021
Specialty insurer, HDI Global Specialty SE has entered the Marine Hull and Machinery London market with the hire of Senior Underwriter Michelle Boyd. Boyd has over 20 years’ insurance market experience, covering both broking and underwriting roles and joins the specialty lines insurer from AXA XL, where she was senior marine ... Read the full article
James River hires Mike Hoffmann from Everest Re as Group CUO
15th November 2021
Bermuda domiciled insurance holding company, James River Group Holdings, Ltd., has appointed Mike Hoffmann to the newly created role of Group Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO), reporting to the company's Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Frank D’Orazio. As CUO, Hoffmann will head up a team with responsibility for underwriting, enterprise risk, and ceded ... Read the full article
Swiss Re’s Mumenthaler named Chairman of The Geneva Association
15th November 2021
Swiss Re Chief Executive Christian Mumenthaler has been appointed Chairman of The Geneva Association, having served as Vice Chairman since late 2019. Mumenthaler succeeds Intact CEO Charles Brindamour in the role, while Lee Yuan Siong, CEO & President of AIA, will step into his previous position as Vice Chairman. Additionally, Aviva CEO Amanda ... Read the full article
Liberty Mutual adds Anne Waleski to board of directors
15th November 2021
Liberty Mutual Insurance has appointed Anne Waleski, previously of insurer and reinsurer Markel Corporation, to the company's board of directors. Waleski has served in executive and leadership roles at publicly traded companies and brings over 30 years of extensive financial expertise spanning the property and casualty insurance, manufacturing and retail sectors. She ... Read the full article
Inver Re adds Howden’s Nick Griffiths as Director, Reinsurance
15th November 2021
Inver Reinsurance Brokers Limited (Inver Re), The Ardonagh Group's recently launched reinsurance broker, has announced the appointment of Nick Griffiths as Director of Reinsurance. Griffiths joins the Inver Re senior leadership team and reports to Ardonagh's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Reinsurance and Capital, Steve Hearn. In his new role, he will ... Read the full article
ABI names three senior leadership appointments
15th November 2021
The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has announced three senior leadership appointments, including Baroness Nicky Morgan as first Independent Chair. Hannah Gurga joins as Director General and Baroness Dianne Hayter as independent Non-Executive Director Morgan, who’s to become the first Independent Chair in a newly defined role, takes over from Jon Dye ... Read the full article
Markel adds three to renewable energy team
12th November 2021
Markel International, a subsidiary of the Markel Corporation, has appointed Charlie Richardson, Sarah McCarthy, and Yong Ruay Heah to its renewable energy team. Richardson will assume the role of head of renewable energy underwriting, where he will be responsible for setting and implementing the underwriting strategy to grow and develop Markel’s presence ... Read the full article
AXIS adds Patrick Witteveen and Kyle Freeman to ILS operation
12th November 2021
Bermuda-based insurer and reinsurer, AXIS Capital Holdings Limited, has bolstered its insurance-linked securities (ILS) team with the additions of Patrick Witteveen and Kyle Freeman as Head of ILS Business Development and Head of ILS Structuring, Property, respectively. AXIS Capital rebranded its ILS and third-party reinsurance capital arm to AXIS ILS ... Read the full article
Ascot Bermuda hires Mitch McBain
12th November 2021
Specialty re/insurer Ascot has appointed Mitch McBain as Senior Vice President (SVP), Head of Management Liability in Bermuda. McBain will be responsible for the underwriting and management of Ascot’s professional and management liability insurance portfolios in Bermuda. He will help Ascot’s expansion into professional lines, collaborating closely with colleagues across the U.S. ... Read the full article
AXIS Insurance bolsters E&S Property team
11th November 2021
AXIS Insurance, the specialty insurance business segment of AXIS Capital, has announced the appointment of two senior underwriters to its US Excess and Surplus (E&S) Property team. Effective immediately, Chelsea McIntyre and Nicholas Crowder each join the firm as a Vice President. McIntyre and Crowder’s objective will be to develop and build ... Read the full article
Hannover Re sheds stake in HDI as firm underlines ‘pure reinsurer’ focus
11th November 2021
Global reinsurer Hannover Re has announced the sale of its 49.8% stake in joint venture HDI Global Specialty SE to majority shareholder HDI Global SE. The deal underscores Hannover Re’s overarching ambition of repositioning itself as a pure reinsurer. Concurrently, the sale is seen as a way to free up capital for ... Read the full article
RLI announces Kliethermes as President & CEO, Klobnak as COO
11th November 2021
RLI Corp. has confirmed that its Board of Directors has appointed Craig Kliethermes as its new President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Jennifer Klobnak as Chief Operating Officer (COO), effective January 1st, 2022. The leadership changes come as RLI prepares for the retirement of current company Chairman and CEO, Jonathan ... Read the full article
Blenheim bolsters political risk with underwriters Plumptre & Fox
10th November 2021
Blenheim Underwriting has added Tamsin Plumptre and Ed Fox to its political risk underwriting team, as the firm looks to expand its presence in the sector. Plumptre joined on November 8 with over 17 years’ experience. She was most recently head of structured credit, political and security risks at the Canadian independent ... Read the full article
Palomar makes senior leadership changes
10th November 2021
Specialty property insurer Palomar Holdings has announced that current Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO), Jon Christianson will succeed Heath Fisher as President next year in April. The company also announced that Robert Beyerle, Palomar’s Senior Vice President of Inland Marine, will succeed Christianson as Chief Underwriting Officer, effective upon Christianson’s appointment as ... Read the full article