Oman Insurance Company (OIC) has announced the appointment of Jean-Louis Laurent Josi as its new chief executive officer. Josi comes to OIC with renowned insurance expertise, astute strategic vision and remarkable achievements in his previous roles. For the past 12 years he has held key executive positions in the AXA...
Takaful Emarat has appointed Fadi Hindi as chief executive officer effective with immediate effect. Hindi will oversee the strategic growth, operations and overall development of Takaful Emarat during the next phase of its growth. He is tasked with executing an organisation-wide transformation strategy embracing innovation and disruptive technologies. Commenting on...
Santam, has announced that Steve Murphy has been appointed as head of Santam Reinsurance with effect from April 1, 2018. Murphy joined Santam Re on July 1, 2011 as the business’s representative in South East Asia, initially out of Vietnam and later Singapore. He was instrumental in setting up and...
Aon Benfield, the global reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor of Aon, has expanded the management of its Bermuda team. Matthias Meyenhofer will join as CEO of Aon Benfield Bermuda, transferring from his current role as head of Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) global clients at Guy Carpenter. UK...
Financial investigations company RGL Forensics, has promoted Clive Burrows to director. Burrows is located in RGL’s Dubai office. Over the past decade, Burrows has accumulated expertise in the quantification of financial losses for insurance and legal clients, including business interruption, delayed start-up, subrogated recoveries, and expert witness reports for commercial...
XL Catlin’s insurance operation has appointed Nicola Harris as head of Energy, EMEA. In her new role, Harris is responsible for providing and designing insurance solutions for the Energy sector across EMEA, while leading a team of underwriters based in Dubai, Paris, Amsterdam and Madrid. Harris is based in Dubai,...
Guardian Wealth Management (GWM) has appointed James Ferguson as regional manager of Abu Dhabi. Level-four qualified James Ferguson, who joined GWM in 2015, is currently studying towards chartered status with the Chartered Insurance Institute. Ferguson’s career started at Coutts & Co private bank in London before moving a few years...
Citi has appointed Sujoy Ghosh as regional head of insurance for Asia Pacific and EMEA, within Citi’s consumer banking business, reporting to Gonzalo Luchetti, head of Asia-Pacific and EMEA retail banking. Ghosh joins the bank from Allianz, where he was regional head of bancassurance in the Asia-Pacific region. Prior to...
RSA’s UK & International business has appointed Tony Buckle and Rob Gibbs as managing directors of Global Risk Solutions (GRS) and Commercial Risk Solutions (CRS), respectively. Tony Buckle will head up GRS, which provides wholesale and specialty insurance solutions to large and multinational customers through RSA’s operations in the UK,...
Cigna Corporation has announced changes to its core distribution team in the Middle East. The company has promoted Amy MacKay as EMEA head of Producer Relations and Cross-sell, and Richard Rilstone as director of Sales and Client Management for the MENA region. The new appointments reflect Cigna’s reinforced commitment to...
