Insurance Times rounds up the biggest moves and promotions from 24 to 28 February 2025
Starting off the week, Gallagher appointed Sarah Lyons as the new chief executive at its London-based specialty division.
Lyons succeeds Jonathan Turner, who is leaving the business.
Then, Brown and Brown hired industry veteran Stephen Hearn as its new executive vice president and chief operating officer.
The move has resulted in Hearn resigning from the broker’s board of directors, which he joined in 2024, and joining the company’s operating committee.
Following this, the ABI appointed Phoenix Group chief executive Andy Briggs as its new president.
Briggs has taken on the role with immediate effect and will remain in the position for the next two years.
After that, specialty (re)insurer SiriusPoint appointed James Anderson as its new global chief pricing actuary.
Based in London, Anderson will lead the global actuarial pricing team and collaborate closely with IT to deploy standardised pricing infrastructure across the business.
Rounding off the week, BMS Group said it had snapped up two Howden employees for senior roles within its reinsurance arm BMS Re.
Jonathan Hughes has taken on the role of managing director for non-marine reinsurance, while Martin Bartell has been appointed as director of non-marine.
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