ACE Group has announced the promotion of Mojgan Khoshabi, underwriting manager for energy insurance in MENA to the role of regional managing director for ACE in the Middle East and North Africa, as it continues to develop its business across the region. Khoshabi will be responsible for the management and...
The Qatar Financial Centre (QFC) Authority recently announced the appointment of Yousuf Al-Jaida as CEO, as the organisation continues to progress its mission of developing Qatar's private sector. Announcing the appointment, Ali Shareef Al Emadi, minister of Finance and chairman of the QFC Authority said: "Yousuf Al-Jaida has been instrumental...
Oussama Kaissi has resigned as CEO of National Takaful Company (Watania) for personal reasons, according to a statement in the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange. The resignation will take effect from 13 July in accordance with the terms of his contract. He has over 27 years of experience in the insurance...
The annual general meeting of Elips Life elected Luc Albert, managing director and member of the management team for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at Swiss Re, as the new chairman of elipsLife's board of directors. Albert, who has been working for Swiss Re for more than 20 years,...
Towers Watson has strengthened its Risk Consulting and Software (RCS) business leadership team. Following recent appointments to the global team, Frank Schepers has been chosen as regional leader for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Schepers is currently divisional leader for RCS in Northern and Central Europe and the German office...
American International Group (AIG) has appointed Mike Garceau as chief operating officer (COO) of its Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. Garceau will report to Seraina Maag, president and chief executive officer for the EMEA region, and will have a matrix reporting line to Eric Martinez, executive vice president,...
Robert Cross has joined web-hosting organisation Equinix as senior reward manager, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). In this role, he is responsible for developing and implementing reward policies, processes and procedures, as well as managing projects and programmes. Cross previously held roles at Tui Travel as interim head of reward, UK and Ireland,...
Following recent agreements concerning the acquisition by Aviva, John Van Der Wielen, executive chairman of Friends Provident International (FPI), which provides savings, investment and protection products for expatriates and local nationals in Asia and the Middle East, will report to Chris Wei, CEO and chairman, Asia, to support the early...
Oman Insurance Company (OIC) has announced the appointment of Christos Adamantiadis as chief executive office to replace Patrick Choffel who ends his successful four-year tenure with the insurer next month. Abdulaziz Abdulla Al Ghurair, chairman to the OIC Board of Directors thanked Patrick Choffel, and said “The Board and I...
ACE has made a slew of new appointments to strengthen its Eurasia and Africa team. Andrey Sedov has been promoted to the newly created position of head of Property Risk Engineering. Currently Property Risk engineer for Russia and Turkey, Sedov will be responsible in his new role for managing ACE’s...
