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News on insurance and reinsurance industry hiring, appointments and people moves. News and announcements covering key hires and people moves across the global reinsurance, commercial and specialty insurance markets.
Liberty Mutual Insurance names Monica Caldas to succeed as CIO
14th June 2022
Liberty Mutual Insurance has named Monica Caldas as its new executive vice president and CIO in a role that she will take up at the beginning of next year. Caldas will be replacing current executive vice president and CIO James McGlennon who is set to retire at the end of the ... Read the full article
HDI Global announces management board changes
14th June 2022
Industrial insurer HDI Global SE has announced several management changes. David Hullin will take over entire international business from Jens Wohlthat on the Management Board, who retires at the end of September 2022. When he takes on this new role, Hullin will be responsible for the entire business of the Industrial Lines ... Read the full article
Howden Insurance Brokers appoints Kenneth Durbin to new role
14th June 2022
Howden Insurance Brokers has appointed Kenneth Durbin to be its new managing director and head of strategy for global programs. Durbin comes to the company from a senior vice president role at Guy Carpenter, which he joined in 2017. Prior to Guy Carpenter, Durbin was assistant vice president at Willis Re. The ... Read the full article
DUAL Europe hires Floris Wijchman as Commercial Director
14th June 2022
Howden Group’s underwriting arm DUAL has appointed Floris Wijchman as Commercial Director, DUAL Europe, where he will report to newly appointed Chief Executive Officer, DUAL Europe, Olaf Jonda. With over 25 years of industry experience, Wijchman will bring a lot of expertise within his new role at DUAL Europe. He started ... Read the full article
SCOR promotes McMurdo to Reinsurance CEO as Blanc announces retirement
14th June 2022
Stuart McMurdo is set to replace Michel Blanc as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Reinsurance at SCOR, with the latter set to retire in January 2023 after 31 years of service. The French reinsurer notes that, effective immediately, McMurdo and Blanc will work very closely together to ensure a smooth transition ... Read the full article
WTW appoints Simon Lusher to lead food and drink specialism
14th June 2022
Leading global advisory, broking and solutions company, WTW, has appointed Simon Lusher as Client Relationship Director for Large and Complex Risks. Based in London, Lusher joins WTW from JLT Specialty (now Marsh); he will be reporting into Garret Gaughan, Head of Direct & Facultative. He will be responsible for risk solution development ... Read the full article
Ramon International appoints Harry Cook as Senior Account Executive
14th June 2022
Harry Cook is to become a new Senior Account Executive at Ramon International Insurance Brokers Limited. Lee Ellis – Head of International, Ramon International, made the announcement on LinkedIn, and said he was delighted to be welcoming Harry to the team. Harry joins Ramon International from Howden Reinsurance Brokers, where he served ... Read the full article
Chubb’s Combined Canada gets new president in Joel Schwartz
13th June 2022
Chubb’s Combined Canada has named Joel Schwartz as its new president. Schwartz will take on the role immediately and will oversee the organisation’s business operations, management, and growth strategies. He will report to Richard L. Williams, Jr., president of Combined Insurance. Schwartz joins the company after serving as president of CNO company ... Read the full article
Canopius Group appoints Paul Western as head of US casualty treaty
13th June 2022
Canopius Group has appointed Paul Western as head of US casualty treaty, effective immediately. Western joins Canopius from Optio Group, where he held the position of chief underwriting officer, overseeing strategic developments across numerous classes of business. Prior to that, Paul gained considerable experience in the US casualty market having spent 17 ... Read the full article
Pen Underwriting appoints Dan Hydleman as specialist tech underwriter
13th June 2022
Pen Underwriting has appointed Dan Hydleman as a specialist technology underwriter. The company said that Hydleman will be based in its Leeds office and will report into Tom Dixon, head of technology. He joins from Hiscox where he has been an underwriter specialising in technology since 2019. Dixon said: “Dan is ... Read the full article
Asia Capital Re appoints Wei-Lyn Loh as new CEO
13th June 2022
Wei-Lyn Loh is to become the new CEO of Singapore-based reinsurance company Asia Capital Re. Making the announcement on LinkedIn, Loh said she was happy to share that she was beginning the new role. Her profile states that she has been with Asia Capital Re for over seven years, joining as head ... Read the full article
Apollo Group names Stuart Davies as non-exec director
13th June 2022
Apollo Group had announced the appointment of Stuart Davies as group non-executive Director. His appointment is effective immediately. With more than 30 years of experience within financial services, Davies has served in various senior insurance industry roles throughout his career, including Chairman of DARAG Group, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at global specialty ... Read the full article
MGAA appoints Tim Richards to new role
13th June 2022
The Managing General Agents’ Association (MGAA) has appointed Tim Richards to the new role of technical services manager. As part of the firm’s wider growth and development strategy, Richards will report directly to CEO Mike Keating and will be responsible for supporting plans to extend its influence in the market by ... Read the full article
AM Best names Andrew Power Non-Exec Director to Boards of EMEA region
13th June 2022
Rating agency AM Best has appointed Andrew Power as an independent Non-Executive Director to the Boards of the business across the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. With over 25 years of experience in the insurance and financial services sector, Power will oversee the agency’s EMEA region subsidiaries, A.M. Best ... Read the full article
Gallagher appoints Mike Parry as partner in its renewable energy team
10th June 2022
Gallagher has appointed Mike Parry as a partner in its renewable energy team to focus on offshore wind risks. In his new role, Parry will be responsible for delivering risk transfer solutions for clients as the offshore wind sector evolves, both in terms of new technology deployment and risk financing maturity ... Read the full article
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