Talent
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Chris Caponigro will be responsible for expanding Axa XL’s product offering and investor base.
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Nick Pritchard has been appointed underwriting portfolio and alternative capital manager.
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He will be based in the Bermuda office and work to develop the underwriting associates.
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ILS brokers are pitching for Sanders Re and ResRe transactions.
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Guy Van Hecke has spent the last 26 years working at Axa, starting at Axa Corporate Solutions.
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The expanded team aims to increase capability across global specialty lines and property specialty retrocession.
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Yen Chu Choo has been appointed Asia Pacific capital advisory head.
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The firm’s deals so far have covered cat risk, with space ILS in scope for the future.
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The executive has held senior alternative capital roles at Aon and Guy Carpenter.
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The executive has worked for Scor, RMS, Aon and SiriusPoint, among others.
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The ILW specialist is believed to be exploring new opportunities.
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Sources said Guy Carpenter has promoted Jennifer Paretchan to succeed Mowery.
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Winters will step down as co-head of portfolio management at the end of 2024.
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The executive explored ILS options as MD of hedge fund Horton Point post financial crisis.
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The broker is yet to participate in a cyber cat bond.
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The executive will replace Habib Kattan, who joined the company last summer.
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Philipp Ruede spent 12 years at the broker performing several roles.
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Hennon spent 17 years as professor at the University of North Carolina.
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He left his role as portfolio manager at Hiscox Re & ILS last year.
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The executive joined in January after a decade at Liberty Mutual.
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Slabbert was most recently CEO of Mitsui Sumitomo Marine Management.
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Curtis Dickinson will help to oversee the strategy and vision of Hiscox Re & ILS.
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Sébastien Bamsey joins from JP Morgan, where he has worked for 18 years.
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Schmidt will lead Markel's Global Strategy team and work with Nephila.
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The executive had been interim CEO since January.
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The former Goldman Sachs VP has a background in ILS structuring.
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Park assumed the role earlier this month.
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Amy Stern started her career as vice president of group reinsurance at Zurich Re.
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The firm’s P&C and life and health retro buying is being centralised.
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He will continue to play a role as a fund director and firm ambassador.
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The global services provider has grown through acquisitions in recent years.
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The Icosa Cat Bond Strategy now stands at $130mn in AuM.
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Tanja Wrosch joins Twelve after more than a decade at Credit Suisse ILS.
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Rich had spent 13 years at the firm where he began his career and oversaw a cat bond and ILS portfolio.
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The Swiss Re veteran left her former employer last year.
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The hires represent a reunion of colleagues from Horseshoe/ Artex.
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Minors has experience working on insurance and reinsurance matters
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The former Everest executive will look to roll out a range of new product lines at the MGA.
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The former Neuberger Berman managing director confirmed the new role in a LinkedIn post.
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He will report to Kelly Superczynski, Aon’s global head of capital advisory.
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Gordon was set to join start-up brokerage Juniper Re last month.
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The pair join from Validus Re and Axa XL.
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Vincent Pomo spent more than 11 years at Everest Re in a variety of roles.
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The fund is a continuation vehicle for five of HSCM's life insurance interests.
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The firm said it was poised to build on ‘significant growth’ in 2023.
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Charles Craigs will oversee Ascot’s sidecar and other third-party capital vehicles.
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Juniper Re Bermuda received preliminary approval from the BMA last month.
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The executive brings over 30 years of (re)insurance experience to the role.
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He will oversee the syndicate’s catastrophe modelling capabilities.
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The firm is focusing on developing specialty offerings.
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Risk partnerships will now report direct to the board through the CFO.
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Driscoll and Lubert have been promoted to presidents.
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The underwriter will report to Kristina Maffit.
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Roche joins from GC Securities, where he was senior vice president.
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The challenger broker is continuing to build out its presence on the island.
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He was executive managing director in Aon’s wholesale treaty team.
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The broker has also appointed Charlie Liddle and Rowan Minhas to the team.
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The executive previously served at McGill and Partners and Willis Re.
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The ILS allocator has invested in the asset class over 17 years.
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The hire has 20 years’ experience in asset management and corporate finance.
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Wilson previously worked for Artex at the firm’s Guernsey office.
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He is succeeded by interim co-CEOs Andrew Wheeler and Russ McGuire.
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Investment firm Phoenix launched a private credit and lending platform for the mid-market.
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He joins from Aeolus Capital, where he spent more than four years as a client portfolio manager.
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Adrian Jones will report to Acrisure’s president of global insurance Grahame Milwater, a spokesperson for the broker confirmed Tuesday.
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The executive joins the company as it looks to bolster its reinsurance capabilities.
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Leadenhall Capital Partners (LCP) has named Yuko Hoshino as senior managing director for Japan and Asia within its business development team.
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Jon Colello will become president in the management shake-up.
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Steiger will oversee the new article 8 classified fund, based out of Zurich.
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Schwartz will set the firm’s investment process on its ILS, equity and debt strategies.
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Bailey joins after two years at Roosevelt Road, where he was director of capital markets.
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Craig Hupper spent more than 25 years at TransRe, performing a variety of roles.
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George Mawdsley joins after more than 10 years at Securis, where he was tasked with structuring and origination of ILS risk.
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Slade was previously president at Markel’s ILS fund manager Lodgepine Capital.
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The executives will look to bring the company’s full suite of products to clients.
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Rob Newbold joined Verisk in 2002 and has held several roles, serving most recently as COO of extreme event solutions.
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Coburn will report to Jason Busti, Axis Re president of North America.
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Habay oversaw the wind-down of AQR Capital’s reinsurance business in 2015.
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According to a LinkedIn post, the current head of corporate development, investments and treasury will return to BlackRock.
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Scor is aiming to double fee income over the next three years.
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Martin Ford joins the broker following a 26-year-stint at Gallagher Re, formerly Willis Re.
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Steiger is said to be moving to an “entrepreneurial” role after more than six years with the Zurich-based firm.
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Key names taking up senior roles at Validus include Sven Wehmeyer and Pablo Nunez.
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The senior retro/specialty broker spent 26 years at Willis Re, which was acquired by Gallagher in 2021.
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Alexander will join after his competitive restrictions are up.
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De Klerk spent a decade at Artex Risk Solutions, where he created special purpose insurers and closed cat bonds.
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Tim Mardon will become CUO at Aspen Bermuda Limited and a member of Aspen Re’s leadership team.
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Steve Postlewhite left QBE Re, where he served as managing director and CUO, last year..
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The ILS executive is departing the ILS platform following RenRe’s move to buy Validus Re for ~$3bn.
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Stephan Ruoff will continue his duties as global head of ILS.
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The manager has made four appointments including two internal promotions.
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The 30-strong segment will combine reinsurance and capital markets with data, analytics and technology.
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Caccamese spent nearly six years at rival broker Guy Carpenter prior to joining Aon.
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Bohm joins from Swiss Re Capital Markets, where he was head of structuring for the Americas.
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Robert Salzmann has held a variety of roles at SI Re, most recently overseeing the carrier’s ILS markets and retrocession team.
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Mallen previously spent over 10 years at Chaucer, most recently as a US casualty reinsurance underwriter.
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Mark Shumway joins from Howden Capital Markets, where he has been managing director since 2020.
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He joins from Global Parametrics, where he was head of partnerships and business development.
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Bernard Opoku will replace Jeff Sangster as CFO effective 1 October.
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The leadership change follows Howden’s landmark acquisition of TigerRisk at the beginning of the year.
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She joins after over four years at Securis, where she was head of investor relations and business development.
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Nichols joins from Aeolus Capital Management, where he’d served as a portfolio manager after previously spending nearly a decade at Guy Carpenter.
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Ola Jacob's role at Descartes will focus on expanding the firm's parametric insurance offering in the London market to corporates exposed to climate risks across the globe.
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Gallagher Re has stated that the alternative capital market has increased by 4%.
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His role change — following that of LCM leader Darren Redhead in 2021 — raises questions over the firm’s future ILS strategy.
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Morrison spent four years as an underwriter at Securis before moving to Aeolus in 2018.
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The firm joins other challenger brokers in tackling the stronghold of the cat-bond broking space.
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Based in Chicago, Lubbers joins WTW after some two years at ServiceNow, where he was global client director.
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The technology specialist is joining the firm from Reinsurance Group of America.
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In addition, Arch Re global CUO Pierre Jal moved to Zurich to take over as Europe CUO, while president Matthew Dragonetti expanded his scope to lead client-centric initiatives.
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The (re)insurer also appointed Thomas Deane as head of investment banking.
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The executive joined the company from Scor, where he helped to launch Scor P&C Ventures.
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Campbell Brown leaves Amundi after nearly five years.
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Greg McBride joins the firm after nearly 18 months at Mt Logan Re.
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The broker has also appointed Paul Shedden as head of advanced risk analytics for its Risk Capital business.
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New CEO Ami Barlev – who has a background in tech, AI, comms and real estate – said he took the role at an “extremely difficult moment” for the InsurTech.
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The embattled ILS platform took the decision in an attempt to reassure its trading partners.
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WTW is quietly sounding out market executives for a potential relaunch into reinsurance once its two-year non-compete agreement with Gallagher Re ends in December, this publication can reveal.
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Kattan’s role will include establishing the strategy and structure of SiriusPoint’s global ceded reinsurance function, managing the ceded team based in Stockholm and overseeing all reinsurance placements.
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The underwriter has worked at the carrier for almost 20 years and has a background in specialty reinsurance.
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The firm’s statement followed allegations in Israeli tech media of missing collateral linked to deals it was concerned in.
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Charles Cooper will be responsible for the development of a significant growth driver for the business.
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Skilton will be chair of the team with Wheeler and Murray heading up the global re specialty unit.
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The executive will report to reinsurance solutions CEO Russell Higginbotham.
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Also formally joining the board are Carlyle’s managing directors James Burr and Jitij Dwivedi, and Adam Halpern-Leistner, director at Hellman & Friedman.
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The executive worked for WTW for more than two decades.
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Chris Parish was previously portfolio management and funds team leader at Nephila Capital.
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O’Donnell will focus on strategic and tactical operations within global reinsurance alongside his continuing responsibility for Chubb Tempest Re USA.
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The former chairman and CEO of New York Life will support the asset manager in developing strategies that harness longevity pooling.
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The broker will also work to support traditional reinsurance and retro activities.
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The cyber MGA can now serve clients in Italy, Spain, Ireland, Sweden and Denmark.
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Frank Lopapa was instrumental in the formation of Mt Logan in 2015 and retires after eight years on the board.
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The executive first joined Vantage in 2021 after stints at Hamilton and Allied World.
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