Brendan McDonald has joined Zurich as the head of professional indemnity for the Middle East. Brendan, who previously served as an underwriter in Zurich’s commercial insurance team, will be responsible for profitably growing the insurer’s professional indemnity business in the region. Hayden Seach, head of global corporate and mid-market for...
Marsh announced the appointment of David Moylan to lead its newly created global surety practice. Mr. Moylan has been with Marsh for over 25 years, the last five years as the chairman of the surety practice in Marsh’s international division. He will continue to be based in Washington, DC and...
Joseph Kotran has joined Barents Re as the Senior Manager – Treaty Underwriting for the MENA region. He will be based in Beirut at the regional office of Barents Risk Management,which is a member of the Barents Re group. Kotran will be responsible for strengthening Barents Re’s strategy in extending...
Gunther Saacke started his career in 1991 with Hannover Re. Over the last two decades, he has worked for a number of reputable reinsurance companies establishing a track record of successfully building and integrating high-profile teams of industry specialists across all major property and casualty classes as well as...
AXA Commercial Lines and Personal Intermediary appointed Karen Young as the senior underwriter for its Reading branch. Young joins the Reading branch’s specialist schemes team and would work as a dedicated point of contact for its brokers on some of the insurer’s largest schemes. Young joins from QBE,...
QBE has appointed David Siesko as the claims director for its European operations. Siesko will take up his role early in the new year and will be based in QBE’s London office and would be reporting to QBE European operations, deputy chief executive, Richard Pryce. Siesko has...
Yutree Underwriting has appointed Chris Parkinson as its insurance broker. Parkinson joins the brokerage, which was formed nine months ago and has doubled its office space to make way for a number of new recruits in the coming months. Parkinson, who was previously working with Bluefin, will be managing...
NIG’s sales and distribution director Dave Parry is to leave the business as part of cuts to Direct Line Group’s senior management team. Following the departure of Parry, head of key accounts Chris Woollam would report directly to NIG’s managing director Jon Greenwood. The non-key accounts would be managed...
Marsh has appointed Stephen Wares as the leader for its cyber risk practice in the firm’s Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Risk Practices group. Wares will develop Marsh’s cyber risk and insurance proposition for the broker’s clients, which include multinational organisations across the region. Wares will work...
ACR ReTakaful MEA is pleased to announce the appointment of Prem Sagar as chief executive officer effective September 12, 2012. Prem will be driving initiatives that will enable the company to provide continued support to ACR ReTakaful’s operations in the Middle East. Sagar joins ACR ReTakaful MEA with over...
