Individuals Strikes: Markel Declares 2 Key Hires for Worldwide Casualty Workforce; Howden Re Faucets Gruen From AXIS as Head of Cyber Menace Intelligence

This version of Worldwide Individuals Strikes particulars appointments at Markel and Howden Re.

A abstract of those new hires follows right here.

Markel Appoints 2 Key Hires for Worldwide Casualty Workforce

Markel, the insurance coverage operations inside Markel Group, introduced the appointment of Robert Hannaford to the position of senior underwriter, Life Science, and James Murray as head of Common Legal responsibility, with fast impact.

These new hires will work throughout the firm’s Worldwide Casualty group and report back to Graeme Ivory, director, Worldwide Casualty.

In his new place, Hannaford will help the event and build-out of Markel’s Life Science portfolio in London, making certain long-term worthwhile progress. His different main duties will contain figuring out and assessing threat exposures to offer tailor-made insurance coverage protection by way of superior underwriting for a variety of life science firms, together with areas reminiscent of pharmaceutical manufacturing/distribution, nutraceuticals, medical gadgets, contract manufacturing and medical trials, amongst others.

Hannaford brings greater than a decade of underwriting expertise to his new position, together with cross-functional expertise and experience in life sciences, medical trials and huge multinational programmes for varied industries. Beforehand, Hannaford spent 11 years at Newline Group. After becoming a member of as an underwriting assistant, he was promoted to underwriter, the place he serviced worldwide purchasers and collaborated with abroad places of work to offer world options for his or her purchasers domestically throughout the insurer’s Life Science portfolio.

In the meantime, Murray will work intently with Ivory to develop and lead a worthwhile worldwide common legal responsibility portfolio. It will embrace fostering dealer relationships and sustaining excessive service ranges for dealer and their stakeholders. He may even be tasked with recruiting new underwriters to the worldwide common legal responsibility group and mentoring present colleagues, together with supporting their skilled improvement.

Beforehand, Murray was employed at AXA XL as underwriting supervisor for worldwide wholesale legal responsibility, UK and Lloyd’s, the place he led a group of underwriters and was accountable for managing coverholder relationships throughout Canada, Australia and Europe. Earlier than his employment at AXA XL, Murray labored in MS Amlin’s worldwide casualty division for six years, throughout which period he obtained two promotions briefly succession from underwriting assistant to underwriter, worldwide casualty.

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Howden Re Faucets Gruen From AXIS as Head of Cyber Menace Intelligence

Howden Re, the reinsurance and threat advisory arm of insurance coverage dealer Howden, introduced it has appointed cyber threat specialist, Harriet Gruen, as head of Cyber Menace Intelligence, primarily based in London.

Gruen joins Howden Re with eight years of cyber {industry} expertise, the 4 most up-to-date of which have been at world insurers. As a senior cyber threat advisor at AXIS Capital in London she helped listing the primary 144A cyber disaster bond and led investor training on cyber threat.

Beforehand, she was a cyber threat specialist at Tokio Marine Holdings, the place she designed cyber situations and delivered technical coaching. Gruen additionally labored at each HSBC and Digital Shadows in London within the Strategic Safety Menace and Cyber Menace groups, respectively, and within the Division of the Australian prime minister. She has a Grasp of Science from the London College of Economics.

Howden Re stated it has been constructing its cyber reinsurance observe during the last 14 months to develop an industry-leading providing. Senior hires along with Gruen embrace:

• Luke Foord-Kelcey joined Howden Re in October 2023 to construct out the observe as world head of Cyber. He joined after seven years at Aon Reinsurance the place was world head of Cyber, and has almost 20 years’ expertise in varied roles within the cyber market.
• Matthew Webb joined in Could 2023 as head of Cyber Shoppers & Technique. Webb joined from Hiscox the place he held roles reminiscent of group head of Cyber and main its syndicate cyber portfolio as line underwriter.
• Mark Lynch joined Howden Re in October 2023 as head of Cyber Information & Analytics from Aon Reinsurance, the place he had been head of Cyber Innovation & Capital.
• Toby Lampier joined in July 2023 as head of Cyber Broking & Markets, having beforehand been at Aon for almost 10 years, together with six years in cyber reinsurance.
• Jack Sandford joined Howden Re in October 2023 as a director in cyber reinsurance, and beforehand had held roles at Aon and Canopius in cyber reinsurance and disaster threat, respectively.

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