Hutton Swinglehurst and Matthew Hogg join global CMT division
Marsh has announced the appointment of Hutton Swinglehurst as a Senior Vice President and Matthew Hogg as a Vice President of its global Communications, Media and Technology Practice (CMT).
Based in London, they will both report to Fredrik Motzfeldt, Leader of Marsh’s CMT Practice for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Educated at Cambridge University, Mr Swinglehurst joins Marsh from the Lloyd’s broker, Swinglehurst Ltd, where he was corporate development director and a member of the board. Previously, Mr Swinglehurst spent 11 years in the investment banking industry specialising in corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions in the CMT sector, including stints at Société Générale and NM Rothschild & Sons in London and Warburg Dillon Read in New York.
Mr Hogg brings extensive knowledge of technology risks, issues surrounding intangible assets and the intellectual property insurance market. He joins Marsh from Kiln where he was intangible assets underwriter, having developed a number of innovative insurance products in the areas of open source software and cyber risk. A member of the Licensing Executive Society, the Intellectual Property Institute and the Intangible Asset Finance Society, he has been written extensively on these topics.
Michael Whealon, Head of Marsh’s Global CMT Practice, said: “Both Hutton and Matthew bring to our team extensive experience in risks close to the heart of the CMT sector and invaluable knowledge of the insurance markets in both Europe and the United States. With the strengthening of the Global CMT Practice we are confident that these appointments will further improve our ability to help our clients identify, measure and manage difficult risks in an increasingly complex, highly competitive and evolving CMT industry environment.”
