People Moves – Page 137
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NewsChaucer grows political risk team with former XL Catlin exec
Lloyd’s insurer Chaucer has hired former XL Catlin underwriter Jonathan Bint as political risk underwriter and analyst. Bint was part of the credit and political risk underwriting team at XL Catlin. Chaucer said it hired Bint to help drive the expansion of its political risk and ...
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NewsHood appoints new residential property head
Affinity insurance provider, Hood Group, has appointed Sarah Smith to the newly created role of head of residential property. Smith will be responsible for the leadership and management of the group’s residential property lines of business which includes household, landlords and renters insurance. She joins Hood ...
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NewsBarbican hires Towergate underwriter Roberts
Barbican Protect, the UK insurance arm of Barbican Insurance Group, said it has hired Alexandra Roberts (pictured) as a development underwriter, financial lines. Roberts joins Barbican Protect from Towergate Professional Indemnity where she was a senior account handler, working across a broad spectrum of professional sectors. ...
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NewsAsh Bathia’s Lloyd’s insurer hires casualty underwriting head
Ash Bathia’s Lloyd’s syndicate, Probitas 1492, has hired Neila Buurman as chief underwriting officer for its casualty division. Buurman was previously director of international casualty at QBE, Bathia’s former employer. She joined QBE in 2000 as an international liability underwriter. Bathia was chief underwriting officer of ...
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NewsCPP hires new chief executive after boardroom coup
Credit card insurer CPP has hired Jason Walsh as its new chief executive to replace Stephen Callaghan, who has left following a boardroom coup by asset management firm Schroders. The move marks a return to CPP for Walsh. He worked for CPP between 2002 and 2014, ...
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NewsJLT EMEA chief executive Martin Hiller to retire
JLT chief executive of Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Martin Hiller is retiring from the company. Hiller joined JLT in 1988. He is best known at the company for his almost 10-year stint as chief executive of the JLT Specialty broking division. JLT credited ...
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NewsMarsh-owned SMEi’s joint chief executives leave roles
Marsh-owned broker SMEi’s joint chief executives Jason Gandy and Roger Snowden have left their current roles. Gandy has left the business altogether, while Snowden will continue at the company in a consultancy role. Jonathan Webber and Lee Tetley have replaced them. Webber, formerly SMEi’s finance director, ...
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NewsTowergate owner eyes Autonet deal
Towergate owner HPS, formerly known as Highbridge Principal Strategies, has been tipped as a frontrunner to acquire a stake in van broker Autonet Insurance Brokers, Insurance Times can reveal. According to market sources, Autonet is close to agreeing terms with HPS. Autonet and HPS have declined ...
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NewsAmanda Blanc succeeds John O’Roarke as IFB chair
The Insurance Fraud Bureau has appointed AXA UK and Ireland general insurance chief executive Amanda Blanc (pictured) as its new chair. She replaces outgoing LV= general insurance managing director John O’Roarke, who has stepped down as the bureau’s chairman after three years in the position. O’Roarke ...
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NewsBroker Network names Ian Clark as executive chairman
Broker Network has appointed Ian Clark (pictured) as executive chairman. Clark’s appointment follows last month’s appointment of former Canopius UK specialty chief executive Tim Rolfe as chief product and underwriting officer, and the announcement in March that former Brightside boss Des O’Connor was joining as ...
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NewsApprenticeship levy needs radical rethink – CBI head
Business lobby group The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) is urging the government to “radically rethink” its apprenticeship levy, the Financial Times reports. The paper said that CBI director general Carolyn Fairbairn (pictured) is expected to say in a speech in London today: “Firms want to ...
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NewsBrightside appoints Graham Donoghue as non-executive director
Graham Donoghue, formerly chief product officer and director of MoneySuperMarket, has joined Brightside Group as a non-executive director. Donoghue (pictured), who left MoneySuperMarket at the end of 2015 after eight years, joins fellow non-executive Neil Macmillan on Brightside’s board. Donoghue’s appointment is subject to regualtory approval. ...
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NewsBrightside names ex-rugby player as head of ProSport business
Brightside has hired ex-rugby player Guy Horchover as head of ProSport, a subsidiary of the broker that places insurance for professional and amateur sports people. Prior to joining ProSport Horchover has held sales and marketing roles at Aegon (2005-2015), Marsh, Willis, GE Insurance and Prudential. In his new role Horchover ...
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NewsCovéa’s Carol Geldard promoted to personal lines director
Covéa Insurance retail distribution director Carol Geldard (pictured) has been promoted to personal lines director. Geldard will take up the newly-created role on 1 June this year. In her new job Geldard will have executive responsibility for the UK insurer’s direct and brokered personal lines offering. ...
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NewsMarkerstudy’s Russell Bence joins Brightside
Markerstudy retail managing director Russell Bence, whose departure was announced yesterday, is to join broking group Brightside as managing director of volume lines. Bence will start his new role in May. Brightside executive chairman Mark Cliff said: “I was looking for an MD with broking in ...
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NewsAndy Wallin joins Cooper Gay as commercial director
Former Brightside chief executive Andy Wallin has joined broking groups Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford (CGSC) as group commercial director. Wallin left Brightside in September 2015 after only eight months as chief executive. Before joining Brightside Wallin was managing director of Arthur J Gallagher’s direct business ...
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NewsAdrian Colosso to support MGA’s UK broker push
Broking industry veteran and former Howden UK chief executive Adrian Colosso has joined specialist property managing general agent Inet3 as non-executive chairman. The MGA said Colosso, who left Howden at the end of July 2015, said Colosso will play a “pivotal role” in supporting it as ...
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NewsMarkerstudy restructures retail division as Russell Bence resigns
Markerstudy’s retail division managing director Russell Bence is to leave on 30 April after 7 years with the company, triggering a restructure. Bence will not be replaced directly. The retail division, which employs 700 staff, will be restructured into four units. The four existing operations directors ...
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NewsMarsh Networks boss Martyn Denney departs
Marsh UK head of networks Martyn Denney has left the company. Denney joined Marsh in May 2010 from Towergate where he was managing director of Broker Network Insurance Services. At Marsh he was responsible for the broker’s three main networks; Marsh Pro Broker, Marsh Labyrinth and ...
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NewsCooper Gay’s Lloyd’s broking chief to step down
Gordon Newman is to step down as chief executive of CGNMB, the Lloyd’s broking unit of Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford (CGSC), on 20 April. His responsibilities will be assumed by CGSC group chief executive Steve Hearn, subject to regulatory approval. Newman will remain at CGNMB ...
