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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.
Swiss Re CorSo makes head of EMEA claims permanent
24th March 2022
Swiss Re Corporate Solutions has made Jonathan Sargent into its new head of claims for EMEA. Sargent will move into the role permanently at the beginning of April, having been acting in an interim capacity for the last six months. He will report to Marc Scheidegger, chief claims officer for corporate ... Read the full article
Cowbell Cyber hires new CTO
24th March 2022
Cowbell Cyber has appointed Joshua Chan as its new CTO. Chan will be joining the firm from Zimperium, where he was previously that company’s vice president of engineering. He joins Kara Owens, who joined the company earlier this month from Markel to become Cowbell’s chief insurance officer. The company has ... Read the full article
Aon names Colin Forrest as CEO, consulting
24th March 2022
Aon plc has appointed Colin Forrest as its insurance consulting team’s global chief executive officer in the firm’s Reinsurance Solutions arm. Forrest will be based in London and joins from WTW, where he was EMEA Regional Leader of WTW’s Insurance Consulting & Technology practice. Prior to WTW, he has held senior roles ... Read the full article
LSM appoints new claims manager for open market specialty
24th March 2022
Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM) has appointed Sarah Howell to the newly created role of claims manager – open market specialty. Howell is responsible for managing the marine, aviation, energy, property, and construction claims team, and reports to Gavin Coley, head of specialty claims. She takes up the role with immediate effect ... Read the full article
UFG names new CFO
24th March 2022
United Fire Group has appointed Eric J. Martin to be its new CFO in a role set to begin in the middle of next month. Martin is joining from Transamerica/AEGON Americas, where he was most recently the head of enterprise transformation at Transamerica. He also held numerous other positions at Transamerica including ... Read the full article
Tokio Marine Intl. restructures TRI division
23rd March 2022
Tokio Marine HCC International (Tokio Marine) has reorganised its Transaction Risk Insurance (TRI) division as it aims to capitalise on the unprecedented mergers and acquisition (M&A) activity across the globe. As part of Tokio Marine's expansion, the company has created two new units, TRI North America and TRI International. The North American ... Read the full article
TigerRisk names Bill Tuttle as Partner, Senior Broker
23rd March 2022
Re/insurance risk, capital and strategic advisor TigerRisk Partners has appointed Bill Tuttle as Partner, Senior Reinsurance Broker, where he will be based in Minnesota, US, and report to Dan Miller. In his new role, Tuttle will be responsible for guiding key clients through complex property placements in this difficult time in ... Read the full article
MS Amlin Underwriting commits to net-zero by 2050
23rd March 2022
MS Amlin Underwriting Limited (MS AUL) has announced its next stage in its journey towards carbon neutrality, as the board confirmed the business will achieve net-zero by 2050, for all of its operations. This would include Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions, and apply across all investments and underwriting operations. The board ... Read the full article
Root adds new CFO
23rd March 2022
Insurance firm Root has added Rob Bateman to its roster as its new CFO. Bateman will join the firm on 11 April, leaving his present position as president and CFO of Ategrity Specialty Insurance Company. Alex Timm, CEO and co-founder of Root, said: “I’m thrilled to announce that Rob Bateman is joining ... Read the full article
HDI makes three appointments
23rd March 2022
HDI has buttressed its regional and Irish teams through a series of appointments. This new announcement is the latest in a long line of recent hires by the company, which has appointed a new manager for its French branch, a new head of sales and distribution in the US, ... Read the full article
Ioannou to become CEO of American P&I Club
23rd March 2022
The American P&I Club has announced that CEO of Shipowners Claims Bureau, Inc. (SCB), Joe Hughes will be standing down from the role on August 1 2022, after 27 years of service, to be replaced by Dorothea Ioannou, who will become the first woman to ascend to the top executive ... Read the full article
Arch Insurance appoints new senior underwriter
23rd March 2022
Arch Insurance has appointed Linda Daly as senior underwriter for executive assurance. Daly will join the company’s commercial D&O division, led by Michael Chu, head of executive assurance. The team provides specialised insurance products across a range of market segments, including D&O, employment practices liability and pension trust liability, focusing on ... Read the full article
Holborn Corp reshuffles executive positions
23rd March 2022
Independent reinsurance broker, Holborn Corporation (Holborn), has made a number of executive promotions within the ranks of its senior Brokers and Analytical Services unit. The promotions were first announced at Holborn's recent employee-owned shareholders' meeting in recognition of their professional accomplishments, and to reflect the elevated level of responsibilities that Holborn ... Read the full article
Zurich NA names Tobias Cushing as Head of Construction Casualty
22nd March 2022
Zurich North America has appointed Tobias Cushing as Head of Construction Casualty for U.S. National Accounts, which serves large corporate and captive customers. Cushing joins from The Hartford, where he most recently was Head of Construction for Middle & Large Commercial and will report to Head of Construction, Kelly Kinzer. In his ... Read the full article
McGill and Partners names Aon’s Mignon as CFO
22nd March 2022
Boutique specialist re/insurance broker McGill and Partners has appointed Dominic Mignon as Deputy CFO at McGill and Partners, and CFO of McGill and Partners Ltd, after spending the past 23 years at Aon. Mignon holds just under 25 years’ experience in the industry, having started his career at Benfield delivering impact ... Read the full article
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