Reinsurance News
People moves
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.
Consilium appoints Tom Abbotts to lead new Cyber, Tech & Fintech division
22nd May 2023
Aventum Group's specialty re/insurance broking business, Consilium has announced the launch of a new Cyber, Tech and Fintech division, and has appointed specialist insurance broker Tom Abbotts, as Associate Partner to lead the division. Abbotts joins Consilium from Elmore Insurance Brokers where he was one of the founding members and led ... Read the full article
Guy Carpenter makes multiple senior appointments for Europe
22nd May 2023
Guy Carpenter, a global risk and reinsurance specialist and a subsidiary of Marsh McLennan, has announced the appointment of Anders Nises as CEO of the Nordics region. At the same time, Guy Carpenter has also announced the appointment of Lisa Ljunggren as Head of Analytics, Nordics, effective June 2023. The company ... Read the full article
Aspen names Tay Boon Chuan as Head of Singapore
22nd May 2023
Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited has appointed Tay Boon Chuan as Head of Singapore, effective June 1st 2023. Boon joins Aspen after 12 years at Tokio Marine Kiln, where he was part of the Property Treaty Reinsurance team, most recently as Asia Treaty Team Lead. Collectively, Boon holds almost two and a half ... Read the full article
Chaucer promotes Simon Tighe to Group Head of ESG
22nd May 2023
Specialty re/insurance group Chaucer, has announced the promotion of Simon Tighe to Group Head of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG), in addition to his role as Group Head of Investments & Treasury within the firm. Tighe has been described as a “driving force” in the evolution of Chaucer’s ESG strategy. Particularly, ... Read the full article
Pen Underwriting names Catriona Thomson CFO
22nd May 2023
British Managing General Agent (MGA), Pen Underwriting has announced the appointment of Catriona Thomson as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective from July 1, subject to regulatory approval. Her appointment follows the earlier announcement in March that Sarah Breslin, the current CFO, will assume the role of Managing Director of Pen's Specialty ... Read the full article
Castel Underwriting names Anthony Williams as Chief Risk Officer
22nd May 2023
Castel Underwriting Agencies has appointed Anthony Williams as Chief Risk Officer. Prior to joining Castel, Williams served as interim Chief Risk Officer at IQUW and Chief Risk Officer at CNA Hardy. Williams held Chief Risk Officer and Group Actuary roles in Hardy (Underwriting Agencies) Limited. He served as Associate Director of PricewaterhouseCoopers prior ... Read the full article
Stonybrook Capital promotes Flynn to Vice President
19th May 2023
Stonybrook Capital & Risk Management has promoted Padraig Flynn to Vice President. Based in New York, Flynn joined Stonybrook Capital in 2018. Throughout his time at the company, he has worked on several capital raises and over three quarters of a billion dollars in M&A transactions. When he joined the company, Flynn ... Read the full article
Acrisure Re names Susan Holliday Independent Non-Executive Board Director
19th May 2023
Acrisure Re, a full-service re/insurance intermediary and capital management advisor, has announced the appointment of Susan Holliday as an Independent Non-Executive Board Director. Through her career she has used her extensive knowledge of capital markets, emerging markets and technology to deliver strategies for global financial services leaders including UBS, Swiss Re, ... Read the full article
Marsh McLennan re-elects board of directors
19th May 2023
Insurance and reinsurance brokerage, Marsh McLennan, elected 14 directors in its annual meeting of stockholders. The meeting marked the election of the entire slate of director nominees for the 2023 term. The 14 elected directors include Anthony K. Anderson, John Q. Doyle, Hafize Gaye Erkan, Oscar Fanjul, H. Edward Hanway, Judith Hartmann, ... Read the full article
Karen Tan named CRO Life & Health Reinsurance at Swiss Re
19th May 2023
Karen Tan is set to start a new position at Swiss Re as CRO Life & Health Reinsurance, Member of the L&H EC. Tan joined Swiss Re as Chief Risk Officer for Asia Pacific in May 2014. In this role, her team worked to ensure that the business had the necessary ... Read the full article
Kevin Bouchard joins Fortegra Specialty Insurance as SVP
19th May 2023
Insurance professional Kevin Bouchard has joined Fortegra, global specialty insurance subsidiary of holding company Tiptree, as Senior Vice President, Specialty. Bouchard brings two decades of experience within the finance and property & casualty insurance industry to his new Florida-based role. He joins the global specialty insurer from Victor US, where he most ... Read the full article
Ledgebrook appoints new Chief Operating Officer
19th May 2023
Tech-enabled E&S MGA, Ledgebrook, has appointed Adrian Copland as Chief Operating Officer (COO). He joins the firm from insurtech Fairmatic, where he previously served as COO. Overall, he brings decades of industry experience towards the role from working at Catlin/XL Catlin/Axa XL in both operational and innovation roles. Copland's role at XL ... Read the full article
Allianz Commercial reveals new financial underwriting teams
18th May 2023
Allianz Commercial has announced that it has made a number of appointments to form a new financial lines team that will operate across three new regional hubs. The new team will focus solely on Allianz’s Directors & Officers and Professional Indemnity propositions, which ultimately will increase Allianz’s presence in the market ... Read the full article
Miller welcomes Lee Bright to its Direct Marine team
18th May 2023
Specialist re/insurance broker Miller has announced the appointment of Lee Bright as an Account Executive in its Direct Marine team. Joining the company towards the end of November, Bright will focus on Marine Hull and report to Nick Summers, Head of Direct Marine. He will be joining Miller from insurance broker and ... Read the full article
Howden CAP bolsters surety division with three banking hires
18th May 2023
Insurance broker Howden has made three new senior hires to its CAP’s Surety division, with the addition of Kevin Barrett, Patrick Shields, and Warren Withfield, each based in London. These new appointments demonstrate Howden CAP’s ongoing strategy to recruit specialist talent from beyond the insurance industry, enabling the firm to build ... Read the full article
Getting your daily reinsurance news from Reinsurance News is a simple way to receive only the reinsurance industry news that matters, delivered directly to your email inbox.
