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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.
AmTrust Intl. bolsters speciality team with two senior underwriters
14th December 2020
AmTrust International, a subsidiary of the insurer AmTrust Financial Services, has bolstered its speciality team with two senior underwriting appointments. Dean Kiernan joins the professional indemnity team as a senior underwriter, while Donna Stroulger joins as an underwriter in the property team. Kiernan brings 30 years of technical, operational and sales experience ... Read the full article
CRC makes US senior appointments
14th December 2020
Specialty insurer, CRC Group has appointed Garrett Koehn and Brent Tredway as Co-Presidents of its Brokerage Division. Koehn and Tredway will assume national leadership roles as Co-Presidents of CRC Group’s Brokerage Division but divide primary responsibilities. Koehn, who is San Francisco-based, will lead the company’s efforts around engagement with national customers and ... Read the full article
AIG Life & Retirement promotes Todd Solash to expanded CEO role
14th December 2020
AIG Life & Retirement, a division of global insurer AIG, has appointed its Chief Executive Officer of Individual Retirement business Todd Solash to an expanded role. Solash will now also be responsible for driving the division’s strategic agenda and ensuring continued innovation. He joined AIG in 2017 from AXA US, where he ... Read the full article
BMS adds David Overton as director within LatAm FL division
14th December 2020
Specialist re/insurance broker BMS Group has added David Overton as a Director within its Latin America & Caribbean’s Financial Lines division. Effective immediately, Overton will be based in Miami and reports to Daniel Court, Director. Overton brings over 21 years’ experience placing and underwriting complex risks and has worked as a broker ... Read the full article
Admiral Group completes CEO succession
14th December 2020
Insurer Admiral Group has completed a successful handover of duties to the Group CEO Designate, Milena Mondinide Focatiis. This appointment follows the retirement of current Admiral Group CEO, David Stevens who will step down from his position and as a director of Admiral Group on 31st December. He will continue to work ... Read the full article
Everest Re CEO Juan Andrade appointed to USAA board of directors
11th December 2020
Juan C. Andrade, the President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Bermuda-based reinsurer Everest Re Group, Ltd., has been appointed to serve on the board of USAA's Risk and Compliance and Member and Technology committees. Andrade brings over 25 years of insurance and reinsurance industry experience to the firm, having served ... Read the full article
Aspen appoints Richard Lightowler to non exec board role
11th December 2020
Aspen Insurance, an arm of Bermudian re/insurer Aspen Insurance Holdings, has appointed Richard Lightowler to its board as a non executive director. Lightowler currently operates in a similar role at Oakley Capital Investments and Hansa Investment Company. He has over 25 years’ experience in public accounting and was previously a partner with ... Read the full article
Argo adds five underwriters to environmental unit
11th December 2020
Argo Environmental, a member of Argo Group International Holdings, has appointed five new underwriters to bolster its US Environmental staff. The new hires include Joy Christie as vice president, Phillip Martell as assistant vice president, Jeff Chao as senior underwriter, Brandon Turner as underwriter, and Yuriy Cherepnya as underwriter. All join Argo ... Read the full article
Chubb creates new digital team for Continental Europe, UK&I
11th December 2020
Global re/insurer Chubb has formed a new digital team for Continental Europe and the United Kingdom & Ireland. The team will help develop and execute Chubb's efforts to broaden its digital product and service offerings, while also creating new channels for product distribution. The new team will be led by Santiago Sanchez as ... Read the full article
Long-time members Greetham & Zeller to retire from AXIS board
11th December 2020
Bermuda-based re/insurer AXIS Capital Holdings Limited has announced that both Christopher V. Greetham and Wilhelm Zeller are to retire from the company's board of directors, effective December 31st, 2020. Greetham has served on the board of AXIS Capital since October of 2006, while Zeller joined the company's board of directors in ... Read the full article
Beazley adds Pierre-Olivier Desaulle to board as non-exec director
11th December 2020
The board of specialist insurer and reinsurer, Beazley, has announced the addition of Pierre-Olivier Desaulle as a non-executive director, effective January 1st, 2021. Desaulle has been serving as a non-executive director on the firm's subsidiary board, Beazley Insurance dac, since November of 2017. Formerly, he served as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) ... Read the full article
Fleming Re adds Martin Dolan to board
11th December 2020
Run-off reinsurance provider Fleming Re has appointed Martin Dolan to its board as an independent non-executive director. He is due to take up this role at the end of this year, with an additional duty to assist in the strategic development of Flemming Re over the next several years. Dolan has been ... Read the full article
Hamilton enters environmental insurance, appoints Markel’s Termini to lead
10th December 2020
Bermuda-based re/insurer Hamilton has entered the environmental insurance marketplace and appointed John Termini to lead the unit as US head of environmental. Termini brings over 25 years' professional/environmental experience and joins from Markel Specialty Insurance Company, where he was managing director, environmental & energy. Before his time at Markel he was with ... Read the full article
AXA XL’s US construction arm promotes Rose Hall to VP role
10th December 2020
AXA XL's North America construction insurance business has promoted Rose Hall to the newly created role of vice president, head of construction innovation. Formerly head strategic operations manager for construction risk engineering, Hall reports to Gary Kaplan, president of AXA XL's construction insurance business. Hall joined AXA XL in 2015 as a ... Read the full article
Continental Re adds Ogadi Onwuaduegbo as regional director
10th December 2020
Pan-African reinsurer Continental Reinsurance has announced the appointment of Ogadi Onwuaduegbo as regional director, anglophone West Africa. Onwuaduegbo’s appointment is effective in the new year and will see him fill a role currently held by Shola Ajibade, who is set to retire. Ogadi holds over a decade of experience in both Nigeria ... Read the full article