It’s time to round up the latest senior appointments and job moves in the insurance sector. Let’s get busy;
ZURICH SINGAPORE
Zurich Insurance Company (Singapore) Ltd. (“Zurich Singapore”) has appointed Mr. Nixon Ooi as Head of Accident & Health in Singapore. Reporting directly to Alexandra Cowley, Chief Underwriting Officer, Singapore, Nixon will be responsible for leading the underwriting, portfolio management, and proposition development for Accident & Health.
Commenting on the appointment, Alexandra Cowley, Chief Underwriting Officer, Singapore said: “We are delighted to have Nixon join our team as we continue to prioritise growth in Accident & Health across Asia. With his leadership, customer focus and deep understanding of the market, Nixon is very well positioned to enhance our proposition, ensuring that Zurich Singapore’s offerings remain competitive and responsive to customer needs.”
Nixon has over 12 years of experience and joins Zurich from Chubb where he was most recently Head of Accident & Health, responsible for all aspects of the company’s underwriting operations across the CI A&H lines of business. Prior to Chubb, he had also held underwriting roles at Tokio Marine Life and InterGlobal.
SUPERCEDE
Supercede has named Sarah Pearson as its first senior operations manager.
Pearson, who joins from carbon data specialist SparkChange, takes up her new role with immediate effect reporting to Supercede’s co-founder and president Ben Rose.
Pearson’s hire is one of the first results of the USD$15 million Series A funding secured by Supercede in June. According to the business, the capital injection has catalysed the already-impressive growth of its operations – the acquisition of Pearson as senior operations manager further signals this growth and its intent to ‘shake-up the reinsurance industry’.
Ben Rose, president and co-founder of Supercede, said: “Sarah’s appointment marks a significant step forward on our road to expansion.
ROKSTONE
Rokstone, the International Speciality (Re)Insurance MGA and part of the Aventum Group, has announced the appointment of two senior management positions. Martin Thomas has been appointed Head of Underwriting Management and Stuart Lee has joined as Chief Actuary.
Rokstone has made the investment as it seeks to drive enhanced decision making and operational excellence across the business.
Stuart Lee joins from Markel where he was Chief Actuary, having spent 14 years within the actuarial function. Prior to this he held actuarial and economic analyst roles at KPMG and the Bank of England. Stuart brings a passionate yet pragmatic approach to actuarial excellence, going beyond regulatory requirements to deliver an actuarial function that is embedded with both underwriting and claims, and that communicates complex analysis simply to support both Rokstone’s internal decision making and its communication with external partners. As Chief Actuary for Rokstone, Stuart’s role will be to lead and build the MGA’s dedicated inhouse reserving and pricing functions with technical rigour.
Martin Thomas joins from Probitas where he was Head of Underwriting Management. His previous experience includes underwriting management and business transformation roles at StarStone Insurance where he was Deputy Active Underwriter, Willis and Occam Underwriting. His role includes underwriting management, operational control and governance frameworks, risk monitoring and control, regulatory governance, internal and external audit, underwriting authorities, policies and licensing, and business change management.
QBE
Simon Lascelles has been appointed to the role of Director of Underwriting, Marine and British Marine for QBE. Simon was previously Portfolio Manager for Cargo, International Markets and has been with QBE for 10 years.
Kevin Shallow, Executive Director for QBE’s International Markets said:
“Simon brings a wealth of experience to the role and as an established leader will help to develop our position in the market.” His role will encompass both Marine and British Marine. Simon started his new role on Monday 12 August 2024.
INSTANDA
INSTANDA, the global leader of no-code insurance platform technology, has appointed Professor Andy Pardoe to the position of interim Chief AI Officer.
As the first to hold the position of Chief AI Officer at INSTANDA, Andy will work directly with INSTANDA’s Co-Founder and CEO, Tim Hardcastle, to spearhead defining INSTANDA’s future AI strategy, identifying strategic opportunities to enhance the client experience through data driven insights and intelligent automation.
In parallel, Andy will work with others across the business, identifying new ways AI can be applied to streamline workflows and enhance productivity — freeing up even more time for colleagues to collaborate with clients on new products and innovations.
WORLD TRAVEL PROTECTION
Global travel risk management organisation, World Travel Protection – part of the Zurich Insurance Group – has appointed Carlos Agudo as its General Manager of Operations in EMEA. Based in the London Command Centre, Carlos Agudo will oversee its multilingual team of full-time registered nurses, paramedics, doctors, and security professionals dedicated to supporting corporate travelling teams.
Carlos Agudo brings over 25 years of international operations and logistics experience across the medical, security, supply chain, and logistics industries in Africa, the Middle East and Europe.
HANNOVER RE
The Supervisory Board of Hannover Rück SE has appointed Brona Magee (49) as a member of the Executive Board of Hannover Re effective 1 January 2025.
She succeeds Klaus Miller (64) on the Executive Board, who after 14 successful years with Hannover Re, will remain with the company in 2025 in an advisory role.
Brona Magee has successfully overseen Hannover Re’s Business Center Life & Health Asia since April 2023. Among other responsibilities she previously served as member of the Executive Committee at SCOR. At Hannover Re, together with Claude Chèvre, she will assume responsibility for the Life & Health reinsurance business group in the Executive Board.
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