Guy Carpenter hires head of Marine and Energy
by Richard Kilner
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Global risk and reinsurance specialist Guy Carpenter & Company, LLC has announced the appointment of Martin Pepper as head of the firm’s London-based Marine and Energy Practice.
Before joining Guy Carpenter he was a director for broking firm Walsham Brothers and Company Limited, where he worked for more than three decades.
Pepper, who assumes his new position [...]
Open GI bolsters Open Trader development team
by Gill Montia
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Open GI has bolstered its Open Trader Development Team with a new appointment.
Andy Beardshaw is tasked with enhancing the delivery, quality and technical processes of the SME trading platform, which is currently used by over 500 UK brokers, to ensure the product continues to evolve.
Mr Beardshaw has a development career spanning 25 years across a [...]
PartnerRe’s CFO to stand down
by Richard Kilner
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PartnerRe Ltd. has announced that Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Albert Benchimol is to retire from the firm, with effect from 31 December 2010.
Benchimol has held both positions since he joined the firm a decade ago, and in 2007 he also became chief executive officer of the Capital Markets Group.
During his time with [...]
Endurance appoints senior VP
by Richard Kilner
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Bermuda-based specialty provider of property and casualty insurance and reinsurance Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd. has hired Gene Mason as senior vice president and head of Professional Lines for its US wholesale operations.
Mason is an industry veteran, with more than two decades of working as a broker and underwriter and extensive experience of professional liability insurance.
He [...]
Brit Insurance bolsters Liability team
by Richard Kilner
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International general insurance and reinsurance group Brit Insurance has announced the appointment of Tom Taylor as Liability Portfolio management underwriter in the firm’s London office.
Taylor assumes his position with immediate effect and is directly responsible to Jamie McNab, UK Portfolio manager for Liability.
He joins the firm from RSA, where he held numerous liability underwriting roles, [...]
A-Plan opens Poole branch
by Gill Montia
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A-Plan has opened a new branch in Poole, Dorset.
The move follows a line of openings since December of last year that has seen branches spring up in Maidenhead, Wimbledon, and Salisbury.
The independent intermediary has a couple more branch openings on the drawing board, both within its current geographical footprint.
Commenting on the firm’s commitment to the [...]
RSA expands Renewable Energy team
by Gill Montia
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RSA has expanded its Renewable team with the appointment of Soledad Vitale as a Renewable Energy underwriter.
The group now has three such underwriters, providing clients with a dedicated resource for advice and cover.
Previously working for Marsh’s Argentinian operations, Ms Vitale moved to the UK to take up a post as underwriter for Construction, [...]
RBS consults on insurance business restructure
by Gill Montia
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Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is consulting with potential advisers on the future of its insurance business, which includes Direct Line, Churchill, Green Flag and NIG.
The outlook for the business has been uncertain for the past couple of years, the division having been put up for auction in 2008 with a price tag of around [...]
Torus bolsters environmental offering
by Richard Kilner
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Global specialty insurer Torus has announced the appointment of Adrianne Vigueras as a new vice president, tasked with the development of new bespoke environmental products aimed at SMEs in the US.
She brings a quarter of a century of experience to her new position and before joining Torus managed her own consultancy firm, CEC Consultants.
Vigueras will [...]
Aon agrees merger with Hewitt Associates
by Gill Montia
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Aon Corporation has agreed a merger with HR consulting and outsourcing firm, Hewitt Associates, in a $4.9 billion cash and shares deal.
Hewitt will merge with a subsidiary of Aon and be integrated into the group’s existing consulting and outsourcing operations under a newly created Aon Hewitt brand.
The firm’s chairman and chief executive officer, [...]
Open GI bolsters product management team
by Richard Kilner
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Open GI, the broker solutions provider, has announced the appointment of Sean Garfield to the post of product specialist.
Garfield was previously a training consultant for the firm and brings more than a decade of experience in the sector to his new post, including two years with Open GI.
The firm is expanding its Product Management Team [...]
Marsh makes Scottish corporate team appointments
by Gill Montia
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Marsh has announced senior appointments to its Scottish National Corporate business, which provides risk and insurance advice for mid to large-sized corporates.
The move follows the broker’s acquisition of HSBC Insurance Brokers in April, and the new team is tasked with driving growth across combined operations.
Audrey Corfield has been appointed as leader of the Scotland, [...]
Brit bolsters Birmingham office
by Richard Kilner
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International general insurance and reinsurance group Brit Insurance has announced the appointment of Denon Ambris as liability underwriter in the firm’s Birmingham office.
He joins Brit from Chubb Insurance, leaving behind his former post as European Sales Training adviser providing training throughout the firm’s European branch network.
Earlier in his career Ambris spent over two decades as [...]
Heath Lambert creates new commercial division
by Richard Kilner
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Heath Lambert has announced that it has created a new specialist commercial division to be called London (Commercial).
London (Commercial) will consist of an experienced team of industry based in the firm’s Houndsditch headquarters veterans, and will capture commercial business within the M25.
The division’s leader will be Simon Waine, who is joined by fellow new recruits [...]
Chartis’ European restructure opts for London HQ
by Gill Montia
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Chartis has announced that the headquarters for its European Economic Area and Swiss operations will be based in London.
The group is undertaking a restructure that will bring its European operations together under one regional management team, in a move that affects the following European domiciled insurance companies: Chartis Insurance UK Limited, Chartis Insurance Ireland Limited [...]
IFB appoints new head of analytics
by Gill Montia
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The Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB) has appointed a new head of analytics, a post previously held by Jacky Cattin.
In his new role, Kevin Reid will be responsible for optimising the IFB systems capability in both the immediate and longer term, with the aim of enhancing the services offered by the Bureau.
Mr Reid’s background includes police [...]
IFB appoints head of Analytics
by Richard Kilner
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Kevin Reid has been named by the Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB) as the organisation’s new head of Analytics.
He succeeds the former Analytics leader, Jacky Cattini, who parts ways with the IFB to join a global financial services firm.
In his new position Reid will be tasked with optimising IFB systems capability in the short and long [...]
ACE bolsters Environmental Risk team
by Richard Kilner
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ACE International has announced the appointment of Perrine Kalina to the position of Engineering Coordinator and Assistant Underwriter within the Environmental Risk team.
She first joined the firm two years ago, as a Client Services Executive in the Major Risk Multinational Support Unit, and earlier in her career she worked for Marsh in Paris.
ACE’s risk teams [...]
Bluefin to open Cardiff office
by Gill Montia
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Bluefin is opening a new office in Cardiff and has appointed Ian Sandham branch director, in addition to his current Bristol-based role.
Richard Brice has joined as senior account executive and further appointments are expected in the near future.
The new site is big enough to accommodate Bluefin’s sister company, Bluefin Advisory Services, which will relocate from [...]
DUAL Corporate Risks launches P&C division
by Richard Kilner
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DUAL Corporate Risks, the specialist underwriting agency, has announced the establishment of a new Property & Casualty division, with capacity to be initially supplied by Amlin.
Steven Price leaves behind Glacier Group to lead the new division as a director.
Prior to joining DUAL Corporate Risks he had worked for Glacier Group as managing director since 2008.
Price [...]
