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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.
Law firm HFW bolsters Middle East insurance offering with new Partner
11th April 2019
HFW, an international sector-based law firm, has launched an insurance offering in Abu Dhabi with the hire of Justin Whelan as Partner. This partner appointment is the firm’s fifth to be added since 2018. Whelan’s arrival means HFW now has specialist insurance teams in each of its four Middle East offices. He ... Read the full article
Third Point Re adds Afford, Lopes to Specialty Treaty division
11th April 2019
Bermuda-based, hedge fund backed reinsurer Third Point Re has appointed Rachael Afford and Melanie Lopes to its Specialty Treaty division as Vice President and Underwriter respectively. Both Afford and Lopes will report Tracey Gibbons, who was this week added as Head of Specialty Reinsurance. Afford brings with her over 14 years ... Read the full article
TransRe announces leadership shuffle, merges NA & LatAm units
11th April 2019
Transatlantic Holdings, Inc. (TransRe) is to merge its North American and Latin American divisions into TransRe Americas, as part of a leadership transition that includes the retirement of Javier Vijil from his executive role after 26 years with the firm. Vijil founded the reinsurer's Latin America & The Caribbean division when ... Read the full article
Aon adds SCOR’s Alexander as Head of Life Reinsurance broking for Australia, NZ
11th April 2019
Aon has named Danny Alexander as its new Head of Life Reinsurance broking for Australia and New Zealand, as the firm looks to strengthen its reinsurance offering in the region. Alexander was most recently working at reinsurer SCOR in Sydney, Australia where he was Head of Client Solutions focused on the ... Read the full article
AkinovA adds MS&AD’s Takeshi Doi to Advisory Board
11th April 2019
AkinovA, an electronic marketplace for the transfer and trading of insurance risk, has announced the addition of Takeshi Doi to its Advisory Board. Doi is currently Chief of Cyber Risk Section at MS&AD InterRisk Research & Consulting as well as Deputy General Manager of the Group’s Innovation Section. His focus will be ... Read the full article
Beazley appoints Hodson, Reizenstein as Non-Exec Directors
10th April 2019
Specialty re/insurer Beazley has announced the arrival of Nicola Hodson and John Reizenstein as Non-Executive Directors, effective April 10. Hodson, who is the current Vice President of Field Transformation for Microsoft Global Sales and Marketing, has also been appointed to the audit and risk committee. She was previously Chief Operating Officer ... Read the full article
Chubb names Head of Financial Institutions UK & Ireland, Global Markets
10th April 2019
Chubb has named Jonathan Kennett as the new Head of Financial Institutions for the UK and Ireland and Chubb Global Markets, the firm's London Market wholesale and specialty division. The appointment is effective immediately and sees Kennett report to Matthew Shaw, Division President, Chubb Global Markets and Hilda Toh, Financial Lines ... Read the full article
Everest Insurance appoints Taute to Distribution leadership role
10th April 2019
Everest Insurance, the specialty insurance arm of Bermuda-based reinsurer Everest Re Group, Ltd., has appointed Rick Taute as Vice President (VP), Marketing & Distribution and National Wholesale Distribution Leader for insurance. In his new role, Taute will be based in the insurance division's Boston, Massachusetts office. Most recently, Taute served as Executive ... Read the full article
Liberty Mutual adds Janelle Edem as Chief of Staff
9th April 2019
U.S primary insurer Liberty Mutual has announced the appointment of Janelle Edem as Chief of Staff, Global Risk Solutions (GRS). Edem will report to the President of GRS Dennis Langwell and be tasked with organising and driving forward critical strategic issues to facilitate efficient decision making for the unit’s executive office. GRS ... Read the full article
Tracey Gibbons to lead Third Point Re’s specialty treaty portfolio
9th April 2019
Tracey Gibbons has joined Third Point Reinsurance Ltd. from Allied World Assurance Company (AWAC) to lead the firm's specialty treaty portfolio. In her new role, Gibbons will report to Third Point Reinsurance Company's Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Dan Malloy. Initially, the portfolio will include workers compensation catastrophe, PA/Life catastrophe, and also ... Read the full article
Validus’ Ed Noonan named StarStone Chairman amid leadership reshuffle
9th April 2019
Global specialty insurer StarStone has made a series of leadership changes which includes the appointment of Ed Noonan as Group Chairman. Dick Sanford joins as President of the Group while Chris Rash has been promoted to Chief Executive Officer of StarStone International and Deputy Group CEO. Noonan brings over 30 years’ ... Read the full article
Sara Ager joins city law firm McCarthy Denning as re/insurance Partner
8th April 2019
London-based law firm McCarthy Denning has added Sara Ager as a Partner in its insurance and reinsurance team. Ager, who joins from insurance law firm EC3 Legal, brings over 20 years’ experience in the industry to the role She has previously worked in and for Lloyd’s managing agencies, Bermudian reinsurers, MGA’s and ... Read the full article
Guy Carpenter MD Kevin Feldman joins TigerRisk as Partner
8th April 2019
Reinsurance brokerage, risk and capital strategic advisory firm TigerRisk Partners LLC, has welcomed Kevin Feldman to the company as a Partner. Feldman has for the last ten years served as a Managing Director at Guy Carpenter. TigerRisk's Global Head of Reinsurance Wade Gulbransen in an announcement praised Feldman for having established an ... Read the full article
Gallagher appoints John Thompson CEO of UK specialty & wholesale businesses
8th April 2019
Global insurance brokerage Gallagher has announced the appointment of John Thompson as Chief Executive Officer of its UK specialty London market and wholesale businesses. Thompson, who for seven months held the CEO position on an interim basis, joined Gallagher in 2014 as managing partner for construction. The division has since quadrupled in ... Read the full article
Harwood to lead BHSI’s Transactional Liability offering across Asia, Middle East
8th April 2019
Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance Company (BHSI) is now offering Transactional Liability Insurance coverage across its Asia and Middle East (AME) regions, and has appointed Steven Harwood to lead the offering. As Head of Transactional Liability in AME, Harwood will be based in BHSI's Hong Kong office. He joins the firm from Pembroke Managing Agency ... Read the full article
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