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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.
Skuld names Hilde Søbstad Løvskar as Chief Legal Officer
11th March 2019
Skuld, the Oslo-based marine insurer, has announced the appointment of Hilde Søbstad Løvskar as Chief Legal Officer. Løvskar now heads the corporate legal department and joins the company’s executive management team. Most recently, Løvskar served as Corporate Legal Counsel at Skuld. In this role she was also the company secretary and worked ... Read the full article
Everest adds Ayesha West from Navigators as Cyber VP
8th March 2019
Everest Insurance, a division of global insurer and reinsurer Everest Re Group, has appointed Ayesha West as Vice President of its cyber insurance group. West will be tasked with the management and development of the company’s national cyber insurance underwriting team and will be based in New York, reporting to Head ... Read the full article
Lockton forms reinsurance business, names leadership
8th March 2019
Re/insurance broker Lockton has moved to form a new global reinsurance business, Lockton Global Re. Lockton has stated that reinsurance is a critical pillar of its aggressive growth plan and this new business will, under the leadership of the firm’s Chief Executive Officer Ron Lockton, look to build out its current ... Read the full article
Descartes Underwriting appoints Head of ILS and Cat Modelling
8th March 2019
Descartes Underwriting, the newly launched parametric and data-driven MGA, has appointed Edern Le Roux as Director, Head of ILS and Cat Modeling Le Roux joins Descartes from SCOR Investment Partners, where he has served since 2014 as Head of ILS Risk, with responsibility for the Risk Management of the ILS ... Read the full article
Hayley Spink named Head of Global Operations, Lloyd’s of London
7th March 2019
Lloyd's of London has announced the appointment of Hayley Spink as Head of Global Operations, succeeding Joe Dainty, who leaves the marketplace in March to join DXC. In her new role, Spink will report to Chief Operating Officer (COO), Shirine Khoury-Haq. She joined Lloyd's in 2007 and has served in a number ... Read the full article
Tokio Marine HCC President William Burke to retire, successor revealed
7th March 2019
It has been announced that William Burke, the President of specialty insurance group Tokio Marine HCC, will retire on 1 April 2019. Current Executive Vice President Michael Schell will step into the role upon Burke’s departure. Burke, who will continue as a member of the Board of Directors following his retirement, ... Read the full article
Marsh adds AIG’s Bauer to lead U.S Sharing Economy, Mobility Practice
7th March 2019
International re/insurance brokerage Marsh has appointed Robert Bauer to lead its U.S Sharing Economy & Mobility Practice. Bauer joins from AIG where he served as General Insurance Head of Innovation and its Sharing Economy Group. In his new role Bauer will focus on developing and delivering products and services to companies operating ... Read the full article
Lockton hires JLT’s Philip Corrigan as COO for Asia Pacific
7th March 2019
Global insurance and reinsurance broker Lockton has announced the appointment of Philip Corrigan as Chief Operations Officer (COO) for the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. Corrigan arrives from Jardine Lloyd Thomson (JLT), where he has spent most of his 30-year career, having most recently served as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of JLT Thailand. He ... Read the full article
Amynta adds QBE’s Bob James as Exec VP, MGAs
7th March 2019
Amynta, a group created in 2018 from Madison Dearborn Partners’ acquisition of a number of AmTrust Financial Services U.S fee businesses, has appointed Bob James as Executive Vice-President, Managing General Agencies. James, who will report to Chief Executive Officer of the Amynta Group Stuart Hollander, joins with over 30 years’ experience ... Read the full article
Willis Towers Watson announces senior appointments to NA division
7th March 2019
Global insurance and reinsurance broker Willis Towers Watson (WTW) has announced the appointments of Linde Hotchkiss, Nicole Johnson and George Haitsch to senior positions for its Western region in North America (NA). Hotchkiss will lead WTW’s Regional Large Account strategy for the West, based in San Diego, CA. She will be responsible ... Read the full article
LMA appoints new Operations, Finance Director
7th March 2019
The Lloyd's Market Association (LMA) has appointed Rob Myers and Paul Davenport as Operations Director and Finance Director, respectively. Myers began his career nearly 20 years ago at Lloyd’s and has since held a number of senior roles in Xchanging, and most recently CSC and DXC Technology. Davenport has held senior positions ... Read the full article
Hannover Re adds Silke Sehm to Executive Board
6th March 2019
The Supervisory Board of Hannover Re has appointed Silke Sehm as a full member of the Executive Board with immediate effect. Sehm takes responsibility for French-speaking and Nordic markets in Europe as well as Central and Eastern Europe and catastrophe business. She joined Hannover Re in 1996 as an underwriter for property ... Read the full article
Everest adds Kathleen Boland as Director, Marketing & Distribution
6th March 2019
Everest Insurance, a division of global re/insurer Everest Re Group, has announced the appointment of Kathleen Boland as Director, Marketing & Distribution. Focusing on the Mid-Atlantic region, Boland will be based out of the firm’s Philadelphia office and report to Matt Murray, East Region Leader, Marketing & Distribution. She has over 15 ... Read the full article
Chubb appoints Mark Hammond as Treasurer
5th March 2019
Global insurer Chubb has announced the appointment of Mark Hammond as Treasurer, effective March 1. He replaces Ken Koreyva, a Chubb Group Senior Vice President who will step down from his current position and assume a new senior advisory role. Hammond currently serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for ... Read the full article
Sedgwick adds Jane Tutoki to Board of Directors
4th March 2019
Sedgwick, a global provider of technology-enabled risk, benefits, and integrated business solutions, has announced that Jane Tutoki is to become an independent member of its Board of Directors. Tutoki has more than 30 years’ insurance leadership experience and most recently served as Vice Chair of Sedgwick, which she joined last year ... Read the full article
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