The corporate insurance carrier of Allianz Group, Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS), has appointed Martin Zschech to the newly created role of Global Head of Industry Solutions & Client Management.
Additionally, he will also take the role of Global Industry Solutions Director for Financial Services from Paul Schiavone who, according to the announcement, is leaving AGCS to pursue other opportunities outside the company.
Starting his new role on January 1, 2023, Zschech will report to Jeremy Sharpe, Global Head of Distribution.
He is currently serving as AGCS’s Regional Head of Distribution Central & Eastern Europe (CEE). Before this role, he oversaw the CEE Financial Lines underwriting team from 2014 to 2019.
According to the firm, in this role, Zschech will increase the focus on driving AGCS’s industry-led distribution approach of the Global Industry Solutions (GIS) – a key part of the NEW AGCS strategy – to the next level across the business and also lead the client management strategy to ensure an optimal service level for clients.
Henning Haagen, Chief Regions and Market Officer and Board Member of AGCS, commented: “Clients and brokers are our first priority, and we are grateful that we’ve seen very strong results in our customer satisfaction survey this year.
“In his new role, Martin will ensure that we continue to further develop our industry-focused distribution strategy and evolve our client relationship management and service levels in a globally consistent approach. With his underwriting background and customer insight, Martin will be an effective advocate for all customer topics in our organisation.”
Existing Global Industry Solutions Directors (GISD) Blanca Berruguete (Construction), Jody Yee (Technology, Media & Telecom), and Nishma Tate in Global Client Management, will report into Martin Zschech.
An additional GISD for Energy and Renewables will join this team in the coming months, the firm noted.
Further to this appointment, on January 1, 2023, Stephan Geis, currently Regional Head of Financial Lines CEE at AGCS will succeed Zschech as Regional Head of Distribution for CEE. At that time, Alexandra Braun, currently Chief Underwriter Commercial Germany for Financial Lines in CEE, will take on the role of Regional Head of Financial Lines CEE from Stephan Geis.
