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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.
Asia Capital Re announces underwriting and management appointments
29th October 2018
Asia Capital Reinsurance Group Pte. Ltd. has announced a number of new underwriting and management appointments, which includes the establishment of specific leadership positions for its Treaty, Facultative and Specialty business. On October 22nd, 2018, Soeren Soltysiak joined the firm as Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO) of Treaty, and in December 2018, Ronnie Tong ... Read the full article
AIG names Talbot’s Peter Bilsby as Global Head of Specialty
29th October 2018
Global insurer American International Group (AIG) has announced the appointment of Peter Bilsby, current Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Talbot Group, as Global Head of Specialty. Talbot is a Lloyd’s insurance and reinsurance specialist that was acquired by AIG in July 2018 as part of its purchase of Validus Holdings ... Read the full article
Brit names John King as CUO of Global Specialty USA business
29th October 2018
Brit Ltd, the global specialty insurer and reinsurer, has announced the appointment of John King as Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO) for Brit Global Specialty USA (BGSU). King will move to Chicago from his current role as Group Executive Underwriter at Brit Global Specialty in London, reporting to Nick Davies, President of ... Read the full article
AmTrust at Lloyd’s appoints Lucy Forcey to North American property cat team
26th October 2018
AmTrust at Lloyd’s (ATL), the Lloyd’s operation of multinational property and casualty insurer AmTrust Financial Services, has appointed Lucy Forcey Senior Underwriter, North American Property Catastrophe Treaty, a new line of business for ATL Syndicate 1861. Forcey began her career in 2006 as an Assistant Internal Auditor for Novae Group. She ... Read the full article
W. R. Berkley appoints Scott Barraclough CEO of public entity unit
26th October 2018
Re/insurance holding company W. R. Berkley Corporation has announced the appointment of Scott Barraclough as Chief Executive Officer of Berkley Public Entity (BPE), a Berkley Company. Curtis Fletcher succeeds Barraclough in his previous role as President of the Berkley company Admiral Insurance. The appointments are effective immediately. Barraclough joined the company in ... Read the full article
Everest Insurance adds Lazar to lead west region risk management team
26th October 2018
Everest Insurance, a division of global reinsurer Everest Re Group, has announced the appointed of John Lazar to its risk management unit as Vice President and West Region Leader. Lazar, who joins from Willis Towers Watson, where he was Center of Excellence Casualty Leader for California, will oversee a team of ... Read the full article
Alliant appoints Brendan Quinlan Senior Vice President in California
26th October 2018
Alliant Insurance Services, the U.S specialty insurance brokerage firm, has added Brendan Quinlan to its San Francisco team as Senior Vice President. Quinlan joins from Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., where he'd served as Area Senior VP since 2003. Quinlan has targeted expertise working with clients in the technology industry, and has developed ... Read the full article
DWF adds Richard Burger to London Regulatory team
25th October 2018
Multinational law firm DWF has appointed Richard Burger as a Partner in its Regulatory, Compliance & Investigations team in London. Burger joins DWF from corporate and insurance firm Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (RPC) and has 20 years’ experience in UK and international regulatory enforcement, criminal and internal corporate investigations. He is also a ... Read the full article
Asta adds Paul Jardine and Bob Stevenson to Board of Managing Agency
25th October 2018
Asta, the third-party managing agent at Lloyd’s, has announced that Paul Jardine and Bob Stevenson have joined the Board of Asta Managing Agency as Independent Non-Executive Chairman and Independent Non-Executive Director, respectively. Jardine joins from Asta from AXA XL, before which he served as Director and Chief Actuary at Equitas for ... Read the full article
Labuan FSA appoints Datuk Oh Chong Peng as Chairman
25th October 2018
The Labuan Financial Services Authority has announced the appointment of Datuk Oh Chong Peng as its new Chairman, effective October 16 until February 15 2020. Peng has close to 50 years’ experience in financial and other business sectors. He is currently the Non-Executive Director of British American Tobacco (Malaysia) Berhad, Malayan Flour ... Read the full article
AXIS Capital appoints Deutsche Bank’s Elly Hardwick to Board of Directors
24th October 2018
Bermudian re/insurance group AXIS Capital Holdings has announced the appointment of Elly Hardwick to the company’s Board of Directors, effective November 1. Hardwick has held senior leadership roles at Credit Benchmark, Thomson Reuters and, most recently, Deutsche Bank AG. “Elly brings experience driving innovation and strategy at world-class companies, coupled with the ... Read the full article
Swiss Re appoints new CEO of UK & Ireland
23rd October 2018
Global reinsurance giant Swiss Re has announced the appointment of Tavaziva Madzinga as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Swiss Re in the UK & Ireland, effective January 1st, 2019. Currently, Madzinga is Market Executive for the Middle East & Africa across both P&C and L&H, and based in London, he will ... Read the full article
Pickel to succeed Wallin as CEO of Hannover Re’s E+S Rück
23rd October 2018
Hannover Re has announced that Michael Pickel is to succeed Ulrich Wallin as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of E+S Rück, the subsidiary responsible for the Group’s business in Germany. Pickel has been a member of the Executive Board of Hannover Re since 2000 and is currently responsible for the Group’s property ... Read the full article
Canopius makes key appointments across Asia Pacific region
23rd October 2018
Global specialty lines re/insurer Canopius has expanded its presence across the Asia Pacific region with a recent series of key appointments to its office in Singapore. These include the appointments of Mathew Gundersen as Head of Operations AsiaPac & MENA and Paul Hackett as Head of Marine, Energy and Engineering, AsiaPac ... Read the full article
Everest Insurance appoints leader for Risk Management business unit
23rd October 2018
Everest Insurance, a division of global reinsurer Everest Re Group, has announced that Christopher McKeon, current Vice President and Head of Commercial Casualty, will also assume leadership for the company’s Risk Management business unit. Risk Management and Commercial Casualty will continue to join with the Workers’ Compensation, Multinational, Energy and Transportation ... Read the full article