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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.
Liberty Specialty Markets names Jon Rigby Chief Cyber Officer
22nd July 2019
Liberty Mutual Insurance Group subsidiary, Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM), has named Jon Rigby as Chief Cyber Officer, reporting to Peter Smith, Executive Underwriting Officer. His appointment is effective immediately and in his new role, Rigby, a cyber security expert, will be based in London. For more than 33 years he served in ... Read the full article
AXA’s Martin Rueegg joins RSA as CEO of the Middle East and UAE
22nd July 2019
RSA has announced that Martin Rueegg has joined the firm from AXA as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Middle East and UAE. Effective September, 2019 Rueegg succeeds Lloyd East, who has moved the RSA's Canadian operation, Johnson, as Vice President of Strategic Operations and Chief Operating Officer (COO). East ... Read the full article
Paul-Henri Rastoul named CUO of XL Insurance Company
22nd July 2019
Paul-Henri Rastoul has been appointed Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO) of XL Insurance Company SE (XLICSE), a wholly owned subsidiary within the AXA XL segment of AXA Group. Effective immediately, Rastoul joins the AXA XL International Property & Casualty (P&C) leadership team, and will be based in Dublin. In his new role, he ... Read the full article
Brit adds James Birch as Head of Innovation
22nd July 2019
Specialty insurer and reinsurer Brit Ltd has appointed James Birch as Head of Innovation, a newly created position. Effective July 22nd, 2019, Birch will report directly to Brit's Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Matthew Wilson. In his new role, he will be responsible for managing the company's innovation process, helping to identify both ... Read the full article
TransRe’s David Sinclair joins Third Point Re as SVP, Marketing & Investments
22nd July 2019
Hedge-fund backed reinsurer Third Point Reinsurance Ltd. (Third Point Re) has named David Sinclair as Senior Vice President (SVP), Marketing and Investments, effective September 2nd, 2019. Sinclair joins the firm from Transatlantic Re (TransRe), and his appointment is part of Third Point Re's strategy to expand and strengthen its presence in ... Read the full article
Risk Strategies adds Senior Account Manager, Producer to National Fine Art Practice
22nd July 2019
Insurance brokerage and risk management firm, Risk Strategies has hired Blair Wunderlich as a Senior Account Manager and Producer within its DeWitt Stern national fine art division. Wunderlich previously served as an account executive at fine art specialty brokerage Aon Huntington T. Block, and brings a decade of experience in the ... Read the full article
Goldman Sachs’ Love joins AIG to lead Global Real Estate
19th July 2019
Global insurer and reinsurer AIG has hired James Love from Goldman Sachs as its new Global Head of Real Estate, effective August 6th, 2019. Based in New York, Love will report to AIG's Global Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of General Insurance, Peter Zaffino. In his new role, ... Read the full article
Aleš Mirnik to succeed Petr Štěpán as Head of CEE at VIG Re
19th July 2019
Aleš Mirnik has been appointed as the new Head of Central & Eastern Europe (CEE) at Czech Republic domiciled reinsurer, VIG Re. Effective August 8th, 2019, Mirnik takes over from Petr Štěpán as Head of VIG Re's CEE business, taking responsibility for all of the company's Non-Life treaty underwriting for the ... Read the full article
Swiss Re announces two appointments within Asia P&C business
19th July 2019
Global reinsurance giant Swiss Re has announced two leadership appointments in Asia to support the firm's continued growth across Southeast Asia, India, Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Both appointments are within the reinsurer's property and casualty (P&C) operations, and includes the addition of Hans-Joachim Zimmerman as Head of Client Markets, P&C ... Read the full article
Marsh & McLennan Board elects Tamara Ingram as a director
19th July 2019
The Board of Directors of global re/insurance brokerage Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. has elected Tamara Ingram as a director. The appointment is effective July 19th, 2019 and takes the number of directors on the Board to 13. Ingram currently serves as Global Chairman at Wunderman Thompson, a data and technology agency ... Read the full article
Armour’s Steve Ryland named CEO of Catalina UK
19th July 2019
Catalina Holdings (Bermuda) Ltd has announced the appointment of Steve Ryland as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Catalina UK as the division continues to bolster its international management team. Ryland brings more than three decades of insurance and reinsurance industry experience to the role, joining from Armour where he was a ... Read the full article
Generali (GC&C) appoints Head of Engineering Underwriting for Asia
19th July 2019
Generali Global Corporate & Commercial (GC&C), a subsidiary of the Italian insurance giant, has announced the promotion of Dawood Yeung to Head of Engineering Underwriting for GC&C Asia. Effective from June 1, Yeung is responsible for overseeing GC&C’s Engineering business across the regional market. He has over 19 years of international experience ... Read the full article
Thompsett becomes COO at Artex, Marshall named CFO
18th July 2019
Artex Risk Solutions, a provider of insurance, reinsurance, and alternative risk management solutions, has announced the appointments of Stephen Thompsett as Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Brandon Marshall as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Thompsett joined Artex in 2018 as Chief Information Officer, and has 20 years of technology and operations experience ... Read the full article
Lockton hires Dagostino from Willis Towers Watson to lead Global Cyber & Tech unit
18th July 2019
Global re/insurance brokerage Lockton has appointed cyber risk expert Anthony Dagostino as Executive Vice President (EVP), Global Cyber and Technology Practice leader. Dagostino most recently served as global head of cyber risk consulting and insurance at broker Willis Towers Watson (WTW), and brings more than 15 years of cyber risk management ... Read the full article
Ritson and Draper join AFL from UIB as Directors of International Property and Energy
18th July 2019
Lloyd's of London brokerage AFL Insurance Brokers Ltd has hired Mark Ritson and Peter Draper from United Insurance Brokers Limited (UIB) as Directors of International Property and Energy. Combined, the pair bring more than 50 years of industry experience to AFL. Ritson most recently served as Executive Director of the Non-Marine Division ... Read the full article