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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.
Miller hires Chris Hardcastle as Head of Delegated Authorities
6th April 2022
Specialist re/insurance broker Miller has appointed Chris Hardcastle as Head of Delegated Authorities, a newly created role where he will report to Tim Norman, Executive Committee member and Head of Delegated Authorities & Professional Risks. Hardcastle holds just under 30 years’ experience working in delegated authority business, and joins from Alesco ... Read the full article
Rokstone appoints Jonathan Butcher as non-executive director
6th April 2022
Rokstone has appointed Jonathan Butcher as non-executive director. The firm said this was the first time that it had had a non-executive director. James Potter, CEO of Rokstone, comments: “We’re delighted to welcome Jonathan on board as a Non-Executive Director. He has a strong and illustrious underwriting background and business development track ... Read the full article
Mt. Logan Re appoints McBride to Global Head of Marketing and Business Development
5th April 2022
Mt. Logan Re Ltd, the third-party capital arm of Everest Re, has appointed Greg McBride to the newly created position of Global Head of Marketing and Business Development. In addition, the company also announced the retirement of Board Member David Whiting, who joined the company in 2013 and played a critical ... Read the full article
HDI Global Mexico names Mendoza as Managing Director
5th April 2022
HDI Global SE has announced that Omar Mendoza Lizaola has joined its operations in Mexico as Managing Director. At the same time, German Cardenas will assume the role of Executive Operations Director. With 24 years of expertise in the local commercial insurance industry, Mendoza joins HDI Global after an 18 year career ... Read the full article
Risk Solved appoints Richard Thomas into new role
5th April 2022
Risk Solved has appointed Richard Thomas to be its new chief strategy and partnerships officer. The firm said that the appointment was to bolster its continued strategic growth. Prior to his new role, Thomas was European risk control leader at Sompo International Global Risk Solutions after spending 10 years at QBE as ... Read the full article
ILS Bermuda names Jo Stanton as Chair of its Committee
5th April 2022
ILS Bermuda, a group promoting economic development through the growth of insurance-linked securities (ILS) and alternative risk transfer in Bermuda, has appointed Jo Stanton as Chair of the ILS Bermuda Committee, where she will succeed Kathleen Faries. Stanton has been a member of ILS Bermuda since 2015, serving as Deputy Chair ... Read the full article
BILTIR appoints Ross to Board
5th April 2022
Bermuda International Long Term Insurers and Reinsurers (BILTIR) has appointed Hannah Ross to its Board of Directors. Ross currently serves as Chief Strategy and Capital Officer at multi-line insurance and financial services company – The Argus Group, where she leads a team covering group actuarial and risk, capital and finance, and ... Read the full article
QBE names Fabian Desch as Head of Distribution, Continental Europe
5th April 2022
Global insurer QBE has appointed Fabian Desch as Head of Distribution for Continental Europe, where he will report to Andy Besant, Chief Customer Officer, QBE European Operations. He joined from Willis Towers Watson where he was most recently Deputy Head of Broking Western Europe. He has over 21 years’ experience as a ... Read the full article
BMS names Elizabeth Robinson as director, financial lines
5th April 2022
Specialist re/insurance broker BMS has appointed Elizabeth Robinson as a director in financial lines, where she will be based in London, and will report to Chris Madell, managing director of financial and professional lines. Robinson joins BMS from Tysers where she spent more than 5 years, most recently as director of ... Read the full article
Ascot promotes Keith to Specialty/Casualty CUO, Bermuda
4th April 2022
Specialty re/insurer Ascot has announced that Justin Keith has been promoted to Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO), Casualty/Specialty in Bermuda. Within this new role, Keith will oversee Ascot’s Management Liability and Healthcare insurance portfolios, along with Ascot Bermuda’s expansive Casualty/Specialty reinsurance operation. Keith’s promotion comes after spending five years at Ascot. His most ... Read the full article
SiriusPoint expands life reinsurance business
4th April 2022
Global specialty insurer and reinsurer SiriusPoint has made a series of appointments as part of the expansion of its Life Reinsurance business. Lourens Fourie joins SiriusPoint as Senior Client manager, Saskya Hafner-Cordova as Client Manager, Chris Reynolds as Head of Life Pricing and Christina Cosma as Pricing Actuary. The newly expanded team ... Read the full article
Aviva names Charlotte Jones as CFO
4th April 2022
London-headquartered insurer Aviva has appointed Charlotte Jones as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Executive Director which will come into effect in September. Jones was previously CFO of RSA Insurance plc and Interim Chief Executive Officer of the RSA UK & International business. She has held a career in financial services including as ... Read the full article
Beazley hires Christian Taube as Head of Cyber, Intl.
4th April 2022
Specialist insurer Beazley has appointed Christian Taube as its new Head of Cyber Services – International, continuing the rapid expansion of its cyber team this year. Before joining Beazley, Taube was Chief Information Security Officer at Contentserv and, prior to that, he built the information security practice at DataGuard. Taube will be ... Read the full article
CFC names Roger Francis as Managing Director, CFC Response
4th April 2022
Specialist insurer CFC has appointed Roger Francis to the newly-created role of Managing Director of CFC Response, bringing with him over 15 years of experience within information security. Francis joined CFC in the summer of 2019 to take up the role of Cyber Claims Director, having previously helped businesses protect their ... Read the full article
SCOR Syndicate names Marie Biggas as CUO of SCOR UK
1st April 2022
SCOR Syndicate has appointed Marie Biggas as Active Underwriter and Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO) of SCOR UK, where she will report to both Stuart McMurdo, CEO of SCOR P&C EMEA and the SCOR Syndicate and to Olivier Perraut, Global CUO Single Risks. Prior to her appointment, Biggas was Vice President, Deputy ... Read the full article
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