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Miller unveils new equity partners as senior brokers retire
Miller Insurance Services has made a series of senior appointments to replace a group of four long-serving executives that are retiring at the end of 2018.
James Hands, Charles Lane, Phil Wheeler, Martin Henderson and Ben Speers will be appointed as equity holding partners with effect from the 1st January.
Mr Hands is the head of Miller’s accident & health department, Mr Lane leads its liability wholesale offering, Mr Wheeler leads the marine liability reinsurance team, Mr Henderson heads the marine, energy and transportation liability team, and Mr
Speers serves as the company’s chief operating officer (COO).
The executives retiring at the end of the year include: Julian Taylor, Brian Rivett, Xavier Villers and Andrew Miller.
Canopius taps new head of claims from Markel
Canopius has appointed Gabrielle Folliard as head of claims from Markel International.
Gabrielle will join in early 2019 and will report to Laurie Davison, group chief operating officer.
She was most recently head of specialty and financial lines claims at Markel International.
Canopius taps new head of claims from Markel
Specialty re/insurer Canopius has revealed a series of key appointments to expand its business across the Asia Pacific region.
Mathew Gundersen has been named head of operations AsiaPac & MENA, and Paul Hackett as head of marine, energy and engineering, AsiaPac & MENA.
In addition, Dale Taylor will join as property underwriting leader in December and Matt Bird will join in January as crisis management underwriter for the region. All the executives will be based in the company’s Singapore office.
Earlier in September, the company hired Yann Marmonier as head of insurance Asia Pacific & MENA, and recently announced the appointment of Nattakorn Wattanaumphaipong as head of reinsurance Asia Pacific.
AEGIS appoints cargo underwriter from Sompo
AEGIS London, a Lloyd’s managing agency and the UK-based subsidiary of AEGIS, has hired James Hyett as cargo underwriter.
Mr Hyett joins from Sompo International where he was a marine underwriter. He has previously worked at Lockton and JLT.
Based in London, Mr Hyett will report to Richard Palengat, AEGIS London’s head of marine & energy.
AXIS Re taps Thomas Miller COO for global role
AXIS Re has appointed Ann Haugh as president of its global markets division, based in London, and Rob Smart as the head of Specialty Re.
Ms Haugh joins AXIS Re from Thomas Miller, where she served as group chief operating officer. Previously, she held a number of senior underwriting and operations leadership positions at Aspen Insurance Group and Zurich Insurance.
In her new role, Ms Haugh will oversee AXIS Re Strategic Partners, global Specialty Re and the international business platform in the Lloyd’s market. She will be a member of the reinsurance leadership team and will report to AXIS Re CEO Steve Arora.
Axa XL names Catlin veteran as London Market Wholesale CUO
Axa XL insurance has named Dan Curran as chief underwriting officer for its London Market Wholesale business