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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.
AXIS Insurance adds Senior Underwriters to Financial Institutions team in London
19th October 2021
AXIS Insurance, a division of Bermuda-based AXIS Capital Holdings Limited, has added Beth Convey, Julieta Moya, and Mark Sutton to its Financial Institutions team in London, effective immediately. The trio join the insurer as Senior Underwriters, reporting to Callum McPherson, Head of Financial Institutions in London. In their new roles, they will ... Read the full article
TMK appoints Chubb’s David Slevin to lead Aviation department
19th October 2021
Specialist international insurer Tokio Marine Kiln has appointed David Slevin to lead its Aviation department starting next spring, as sights are set on expanding the firm's presence in the sector. The newly created role will see Slevin push for profitable growth and development of TMK’s Aviation portfolio. He brings more than 36 ... Read the full article
Atrium hires Toby Russell as Casualty Treaty Underwriter
19th October 2021
Atrium Underwriting (Atrium), the managing agent for Lloyd’s Syndicate 609 has appointed Toby Russell as Casualty Treaty Underwriter reporting to Andrew Winyard, Head of Casualty Treaty. He joins Atrium from Aon Re, where he worked the past 8 years as a broker within the North American Casualty Treaty team. Winyard commented: “Toby ... Read the full article
Charles Taylor adds Derik Chen as Regional Director for China
19th October 2021
Charles Taylor Adjusting has appointed Derik Chen as Greater China Regional Director, where he will have oversight of the company’s growth in China and Taiwan. Chen will also lead the establishment of the firm’s property and casualty adjusting business in Taiwan. Currently based in Shanghai, Derik has over 25 years of experience ... Read the full article
Andy Read joins ICEYE to lead global government solutions
18th October 2021
ICEYE, a commercial synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) satellite operator and flood data specialist, has appointed Andy Read to the role of Global Head of Government Solutions. With an extensive background in public policy, natural catastrophe resilience and re/insurance, Read will lead ICEYE’s efforts to deliver actionable, natural disaster data to public sector ... Read the full article
Aspen CFO Chidwick to depart, Coleman succeeds
15th October 2021
Aspen Insurance’s Kevin Chidwick is set to depart from his role as Chief Financial Officer at the end of this year and will be succeeded by Chris Coleman. Based in Bermuda, Coleman will also be joining Aspen’s Executive Committee. He was most recently CFO of Third Point Re and brings strong transactional ... Read the full article
New Dawn Risk hires Elizabeth Strange as Head of Strategic Development
15th October 2021
New Dawn Risk has appointed Elizabeth Strange to the new role of Head of Strategic Development. Strange's role has been created as part of a fast-paced global expansion, which has also seen the recent establishment of New Dawn Risk Europe. Read the full article
Canopius announces appointment of WTW COO Kate Roy
15th October 2021
Specialty re/insurer Canopius has announced the appointment of Kate Roy as Chief Operating Officer, a role she will assume in early 2022. She reports to Neil Robertson, the firm’s deputy Chief Executive Officer. Roy joins from Willis Towers Watson, where since 2015 she has held the role of COO for Great Britain ... Read the full article
WTW’s Forsgård to take command of Nordics at Aon
15th October 2021
Re/insurance broker Aon has announced the appointment of Johan Forsgård as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for its Nordic region. He will join the firm in the fourth quarter of 2022, leaving Allan Karlsen, CEO for Aon Denmark and Nordic Chief Operating Officer, to continue leading the region along with the Nordic ... Read the full article
MNK Re adds Philippe Bara to Associate Director role
14th October 2021
Specialty Lloyd’s broker MNK Re Limited has announced the appointment of Philippe Bara as Associate Director - Energy and Risk Engineering. Bara brings with him almost thirty years of experience in the energy market across both Paris and London; including in the fields of offshore energy, windfarms, geothermal, shale gas and ... Read the full article
Hampden names Lord Strathclyde as a non-executive director
14th October 2021
Hampden Agencies has appointed Lord Tom Strathclyde as a non-executive director to its board. Strathclyde is a British businessman and former politician who served in the British Cabinet as Leader of the House of Lords and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. He has developed a wide range of experience and knowledge ... Read the full article
Risk Strategies names John Meder as Head of Risk Consulting and Claims
14th October 2021
Specialty insurance brokerage and risk management firm, Risk Strategies, has appointed John Meder as Head of Risk Consulting and Claims Advocacy. Meder brings over 30 years of experience in risk management, analytics, claims and loss control. He was most recently Executive Vice President, Head of Risk Advisory at USI Insurance Services. Prior to ... Read the full article
Pension Insurance Corporation promotes Dominic Veney to CFO
14th October 2021
Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC) has promoted Dominic Veney to Chief Financial Officer. Veney will succeed Rob Sewell as CFO and a Director of PIC when he retires at the end of the year. He joined PIC in April 2018 as Chief Actuary, with responsibility for monitoring and reporting the company’s solvency position ... Read the full article
WTW names Alex Shepherd Head of Global Facultative
14th October 2021
Re/insurance broker Willis Towers Watson (WTW) has appointed Alex Shepherd as Head of Global Facultative. Shepherd joins from ERS Syndicate 1856, where he served as an Active Underwriter driving performance and growth across all classes. In addition to his time at ERS, he has held various roles at RenaissanceRe, Canopius, ACE Global ... Read the full article
Markel adds two energy underwriters to APAC team
14th October 2021
Markel International, a subsidiary of the Markel Corporation, has announced the additions of Max Robbie and Yong Ruay Heah as specialist energy underwriters within its Asia Pacific team. Based in Dubai, Robbie has been appointed as head of upstream – Asia, and will report directly to Christian Stobbs, managing director of ... Read the full article