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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.
RenRe CEO O’Donnell takes control of Ventures as Dutt departs
10th July 2020
Bermuda domiciled reinsurer RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. (RenRe) has revealed that Aditya Dutt, Senior Vice President of Ventures, is to leave the company to pursue a new opportunity. As a result of Dutt's departure, RenRe's Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Kevin O'Donnell, will assume responsibility for the firm's third-party reinsurance capital and joint-venture ... Read the full article
HDI Global SE adds two hires to UK Motor Fleet team
10th July 2020
Primary commercial specialist HDI Global SE has announced the appointments of Philip Healy and Dron Kyle to its UK Motor Fleet team. Healy joins HDI as Senior Motor Fleet Underwriter and Team Leader following time at Aon, where he was a placing broker in the UK & Ireland facultative Motor Reinsurance ... Read the full article
QBE North America adds Toria Lessman to SVP role
9th July 2020
QBE North America has announced the appointment of Toria Lessman as Senior Vice President, Head of Professional Lines and Industry Verticals. Lessman had most recently been serving as Head of Transactional Liability, a key business line in the Professional Lines portfolio. In her new role, she will assume responsibility for evaluating the ... Read the full article
Ken Randall to retire from R&Q in March 2021
9th July 2020
Randall & Quilter Investment Holdings Ltd. (R&Q) has confirmed that Ken Randall, Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of the firm, has notified the Board of his intention to retire as Executive Chairman and step down as a Director with effect March 31st, 2021. It was revealed in early January 2020 that ... Read the full article
Clyde & Co adds Ian Birdsey to cyber team
9th July 2020
Global law firm Clyde & Co has expanded its global cyber risk offering with the appointment of Ian Birdsey as a partner in London. Birdsey joins from Pinsent Masons, where he was Global Head of Cyber and led the development of the firm's practice over eight years. He has more than a ... Read the full article
Raja Balasuriya takes over from Grahame Chilton as Chair of Capsicum Re
9th July 2020
Specialist reinsurance brokerage Capsicum Re has announced that co-founder, Raja Balasuriya, has been appointed as Chairman, taking over from fellow Capsicum Re founder, Grahame Chilton. Balasuriya served as Capsicum Re's first ever Managing Partner from 2014 and, alongside his partners, has led and grown its UK Motor & Liability unit since ... Read the full article
Pen Underwriting targets £1bn premium in new strategy
9th July 2020
Multi-territory managing general agent Pen Underwriting has announced a new strategy to target £1 billion in gross written premium. As part of this goal, Nick Wright will take on the newly created role of Chief Business Development Officer (CDO), with a focus on investing in M&A, talent and innovation. “Now more than ... Read the full article
NFP adds duo to specialty team
9th July 2020
Re/insurance broker NFP has announced the additions of Akhil Chopra and Elissa Doroff its specialty team. Chopra brings 20 years of cyber and professional liability experience that includes serving as cyber practice leader for Marsh. As managing director and head of NFP's cyber and network security specialty team, he will drive new ... Read the full article
QIC Global promotes Alexander Craggs to CEO at Antares
8th July 2020
QIC Global, the international specialty re/insurance arm of Qatar Insurance Group, has named Alexander Craggs as acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Jim Lye as Active Underwriter, respectively, at Antares Syndicate 1274, effective July 7th, 2020. In their new roles, Craggs will report to Michael van der Straaten, Chief Executive Officer ... Read the full article
Topsail Re adds Jake Colbert as VP of Underwriting
8th July 2020
Cayman Islands-based Topsail Re has announced the appointment of Jake Colbert as Vice President of Underwriting. Colbert's responsibilities include underwriting, marketing and account management. He has more than ten years of experience in reinsurance underwriting and brokerage operations and most recently was an underwriter at Arch Reinsurance. Before that, he worked at Aon for ... Read the full article
Willis Re names James Moss as co-head of Specialty Casualty business
8th July 2020
Willis Re, the reinsurance broking arm of Willis Towers Watson (WTW), has announced the appointment of James Moss as co-head of its Specialty Casualty practice. He will work in tandem with Chirag Shah to lead Willis Re Specialty’s Casualty strategy in London. Moss has 30 years’ experience and joins from Lockton Re, ... Read the full article
AXA XL names Sean McGovern as CEO UK & Lloyd’s on a permanent basis
8th July 2020
AXA XL, the property & casualty and specialty risk division of AXA, has announced that Sean McGovern has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) UK & Lloyd's market on a permanent basis, subject to regulatory approval. McGovern had been operating in this role in an Interim basis for a ... Read the full article
Former T-Mobile CFO Braxton Carter joins Assurant’s Board of Directors
7th July 2020
J. Braxton Carter, former Executive Vice President (EVP) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for T-Mobile US, Inc., has joined Assurant, Inc.'s Board of Directors, serving on the Board's Audit Committee. While at T-Mobile, Carter led the financial organisation for almost a decade, until his retirement from the firm on July 1st, ... Read the full article
Safety National Re’s Ray Harkins to Retire as EVP, CUO of reinsurance
7th July 2020
Safety National Re has announced the retirement of Ray Harkins as Executive Vice President and Chief Underwriting Officer, Reinsurance. Bob King has been appointed to succeed him as Senior Vice President and Chief Underwriting Officer Reinsurance. Harkins retires following a 44-year career in reinsurance and insurance. At Safety National, he provided leadership ... Read the full article
Juan England joins TigerRisk as Partner from Willis Re
7th July 2020
Insurance and reinsurance brokerage TigerRisk Partners has named Juan England, formerly of Willis Re, as Partner with a mandate to help develop large, multi-regional clients in Europe and beyond. England brings extensive experience in analytics and modeling non-US catastrophe exposures to the firm, most recently serving as Managing Director, Willis Re ... Read the full article