White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd’s reinsurance unit, Sirius International Insurance Group, Ltd, has announced the retirement of Dwight Evans. The retirement of Evans, president and chief executive officer of Sirius America Insurance Company (Sirius America), will be effective from 31 December 2011. Sirius America’s chief operating officer, Dan Wilson, is to become the new president [...]
Standard Life has announced the appointment of Charles Guay as president and chief executive officer of Standard Life Canada. He joins the firm from National Bank of Canada where he was senior vice president (Strategies, Marketing and Investment Solutions, Wealth Management), and president and chief executive officer of National Bank Securities. In addition to this [...]
National insurance broker Bluefin has established a new office located in Atlantic Quay, Glasgow. The new office creates nine new jobs, and increases the firm’s presence in the UK, where it already operates from 50 offices, including those in Bellshill and Edinburgh. Bluefin is part of AXA group, and addresses the coverage needs of businesses, [...]
Specialist (re)insurance underwriting firm Canopius Group Limited has announced the appointment of Inga Beale as group chief executive officer. Beale, whose appointment is made with effect from 3 January 2012, will report to Chairman and Chief Executive Michael Watson, who is to become executive chairman. Jim Giordano will retain his position as group chief underwriting [...]
Global insurer RSA has announced that it has appointed Will Bloomer as head of UK Litigation, with effect from 3 January 2012. In his new role Bloomer takes on the oversight of the firm’s litigation management, and is directly responsible to UK General Counsel Neville Howe. Bloomer is presently the general counsel at Gallagher Heath, [...]
Old Mutual is selling Skandia Insurance Company to Swedish Life insurer, Skandia Liv, for £2.1 billion. The divestment comprises Old Mutual’s long-term savings and banking operations in Sweden, Denmark and Norway, operating under the Skandia brand. Proceeds of sale will be used to reduce group debt, with any surplus capital returned to shareholders in due [...]
Systems provider Open GI has announced the appointment of Mike Glassborow as New Business sales executive. During a career of more than 10 years Glassborow has worked for a range of software firms in consultative sales’ positions. At Open GI he will join 11 account managers and work with them to discover new clients and [...]
Marsh has announced that it has appointed Keith Fenwick to lead the firm’s office in Norwich, Marsh’s largest UK office outside of London. Fenwick is an industry veteran, and has worked in the insurance sector for more than three and a half decades. Prior to joining Marsh he worked for JLT Re for five years [...]
The Navigators Group, Inc. has announced the promotion of Ciro M. DeFalco to senior vice president and chief financial officer. DeFalco has served in the capacity of interim chief financial officer since 31 October after the retirement of Francis W. McDonnell. He joined the firm in September, having previously worked for White Mountains Re Group [...]
Willis Italy has announced that it has acquired Broking Italia SRL, a well-established Italian insurance market specialist founded and led by Gianfranco Agostini and Daniela Andreussi. The deal, the terms of which have not been disclosed, sees the Rome-based Broking Italia enhance Willis’ presence in the country with its specialism in Employee Benefits and leading [...]
The Board of Directors of Swiss Re has announced that Stefan Lippe has decided to step down as chief executive officer during 2012. Chairman of the Board of Directors Walter Kielholz said that the Board regretted Lippe’s decision to take early retirement after almost three decades with Swiss Re. Kielholz went on to say that [...]
Friends Life has hired an award winning fixed-income team from Liverpool Victoria to run its new asset management business, set to launch in the second half of 2012. Joining the group in January, Michael Wright, John Hampton, Purna Bhudia and Nigel Bradshaw will be London based and report to Friends Life Investments (FLI) chief investment [...]
Liberty Syndicates, part of the Liberty Mutual Group, has appointed Peter Sprent to lead its global financial risks team. According to the firm, Mr Sprent is regarded by the industry as a leading political risk and trade credit underwriter. He takes over from Matthew Moore, whose responsibilities as chief underwriting officer for the £910 million [...]
AXA Personal Lines has appointed Nick Turner as managing director intermediary & partnerships sales, with immediate effect. Mr Turner, who succeeds Mike Keating, has held a number of distribution roles within AXA over the past 26 years and developed business partnerships across a range of the insurer’s propositions, both in the UK and globally. Most [...]
Atradius N.V. has announced that Andreas Tesch’s appointment to its management board has been approved, and announced a pair of further appointments. Martie van Velsen has been named director of Global & Oceania, and Eric den Boogert becomes director of Asia. Van Velsen will assume responsibility for the future development and servicing of the firm’s [...]
Insurance broker and risk adviser Marsh has announced the establishment of an EMEA Renewable Power & Cleantech Practice. The new Practice brings together expertise from the firm’s EMEA Construction, Power and Energy teams, catering to the needs of clients involved in low carbon, sustainable power generation. It will be led by Mark Popplewell, a veteran [...]
Ropner Insurance Services has announced the appointment of Katrina Ives to develop its UK wholesale business. Ives brings a quarter of a century of experience to the firm and has worked for a number of major Lloyd’s brokers. She joins the firm from FSJ, part of Ink Underwriting Limited/Giles Group, and is experienced in all [...]
Global insurer RSA has announced the appointment of Steve Slingsby to the post of global programme director for Global Specialty Lines (GSL). In his new position Slingsby collaborates closely with specialty lines teams to help support the GSL business. The GSL business caters to the needs of large, risk managed and specialist businesses across the [...]
Aviva has announced that Carole Piwnica, an independent non-executive director of the group, retired on 1st December 2011 having served nearly nine years on the Aviva board. Ms Piwnica has also retired as chair of the insurer’s corporate responsibility committee, again with effect from 1st December, to be replaced by Gay Heuy Evans. Ms Heuy [...]
Argent Liability Adjusters has announced the appointment of a quartet of new associate directors and three new hires. Lee Stevens, Keith Donnelly, Steve Hall and Gez King have all become associate directors, due to their strong profiles with key clients. The quartet boast strong technical expertise and will promote further technical excellence. The firm has [...]
