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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.
New Dawn Risk adds Charlie Mills as Senior Broker
14th August 2020
Specialist insurance intermediary New Dawn Risk Group has announced the appointment of Charlie Mills as Senior Broker in its Management Liability and Financial Institutions team. Mills joins from The Hartford where he was a Financial Institutions Underwriter. Before that he served in roles at Tokio Marine HCC and Sompo Japan Nipponkoa. “At this ... Read the full article
Former Willis Re EVP Grant Owens joins Openly in lead role
14th August 2020
Premium homeowners insurance platform Openly, has added Grant Owens as Chief Product & Underwriting Officer. Most recently an executive vice president at Willis Re, Owens will lead Openly's product team and spearhead product development as the company looks to drive growth and expand nationwide. Openly aims to simplify the homeowner's insurance process ... Read the full article
QBE to add Eric Smith, Tan Le as Non-Exec Directors
14th August 2020
Australian insurer QBE has announced the appointment of Eric Smith and Tan Le as Non-Executive Directors of the Group Board, effective September 1. Smith joins with over 40 years of experience in insurance and financial services and most recently served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Swiss Re Americas, and a ... Read the full article
Mike Hoffman joins Everest Insurance as Head of Risk & Ceded Reinsurance
13th August 2020
Everest Insurance, a division of Bermuda-based insurer and reinsurer Everest Re Group, has announced the appointment of Mike Hoffmann as Head of Risk & Ceded Reinsurance. In this newly created role, Hoffman will lead a team with responsibility for all aspects of the global ceded reinsurance strategy for the Insurance Division. Based ... Read the full article
Swiss Re CorSo bolsters customer & distribution leadership in North America
13th August 2020
Swiss Re Corporate Solutions (Swiss Re CorSo), the commercial insurance division of reinsurance giant Swiss Re, has named Allen Kwan as Head Customer Management, North America and Daniel Combes as Head Distribution Management, North America. Both Kwan and Combes will assume their newly-created roles on August 17th, 2020. In his new role, ... Read the full article
AIG promotes McElroy to CEO of General Insurance & EVP, AIG
13th August 2020
American International Group, Inc. (AIG) has announced that David McElroy has been promoted to Chief Executive Officer (CEO), General Insurance, and Executive Vice President (EVP), AIG, effective immediately. Prior to his promotion, McElroy served as President and CEO of the North American operations of the insurer and reinsurer's General Insurance division. In ... Read the full article
WTW appoints Shaw to lead data, analytics for Global Fac division
13th August 2020
Global re/insurance broker Willis Towers Watson has appointed Fiona Shaw as head of data, analytics and innovation for its Global Fac division. Shaw will oversee the leveraging of analytical expertise across WTW in order to develop a strategy for the use of data and analytics across the facultative business globally. Her role ... Read the full article
Pen Underwriting announces new role of Head of Technical Claims
13th August 2020
Insurer Pen Underwriting has announced the promotion of Alex Tinsley to take on the role of Head of Technical Claims, a new role created as the firm continues to invest in enhancing its in-house claims capabilities as a virtual insurer. Tinsley’s previous role was Head of Commercial claims, however his new ... Read the full article
Chubb appoints Paul Krump & John Lupica to new leadership roles
13th August 2020
Chubb has announced the appointments of Paul Krump as Vice Chairman, Global Underwriting and Claims, and John Lupica as President, North America Insurance Operations. Krump currently serves as Executive Vice President, Chubb Group and President, North America Commercial and Personal Insurance, while Lupica is Vice Chairman, Chubb Group and President, North ... Read the full article
InsurTech eMaxx hires new President & CEO of insurance operations
13th August 2020
Commercial property and casualty (P&C) InsurTech company, eMaxx, has announced that Eileen Currie has been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the firm’s insurance operating companies. Currie will lead the insurance operations in underwriting, client services, and distribution for its alternative risk captive insurance programs. Brian McCarthy, CEO of eMaxx ... Read the full article
FTI Consulting hires two within Global Insurance Services unit
13th August 2020
Business advisory firm, FTI Consulting, Inc. has announced the appointment of Andrew Holderness and Nick Triggs as Senior Advisors to its Global Insurance Services practice. With the appointment of Holderness and Triggs, FTI Consulting plans to further expand its footprint for its insurance M&A and integration services in the UK and ... Read the full article
Beazley’s Lodestone adds Frank Luzsicza as CEO
12th August 2020
Beazley-owned cyber security service provider Lodestone has announced the appointment of Frank Luzsicza as Chief Executive Officer. Luzsicza brings over two decades of experience and joins from TÜV Rheinland Group, where he was executive vice president and a member of the group executive council. He will lead Lodestone’s cyber security and breach ... Read the full article
Lockton Re adds Peter Wilkie to Specialty Division as a Broker
12th August 2020
Lockton Re, the global reinsurance business of the world’s largest privately held independent insurance broker, has added Peter Wilkie to its Specialty Division as a Broker. Now reporting to Paul Upton, Wilkie was most recently Deputy Line Underwriter - War, Terrorism & Political Violence at Hiscox, having spent 13 years there, starting ... Read the full article
Sompo International names Head of Cyber for London Market
12th August 2020
Sompo International Holdings Ltd., a Bermuda-based specialty provider of property and casualty insurance and reinsurance, has appointed Lauren Folkard as Vice President and Head of Cyber for the London Market. Folkard most recently served as a cyber class underwriter at Barbican, before which she was part of the cyber management team ... Read the full article
HDI Global Specialty SE Australia bolsters senior team with two new hires
12th August 2020
HDI Global Specialty SE Australia, the specialty lines insurer, has announced the appointments of Anja Dix-Eberhardt as Head of Risk and Compliance, and Nick Newton who joins as Head of Finance & Operations. Dix-Eberhardt moves from QBE Group where she held senior roles in both Risk Reporting & Systems and Enterprise ... Read the full article
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