Talent

Donald Harrell was most recently head of international insurance at Aspen Insurance and active underwriter of Lloyd’s Syndicate 4711.

Hyeji Kang succeeds Bernhard Arbogast who is retiring in May 2020.

People moves in the ILS market: Lodgepine Capital, Halsband, Hyperion, Guy Carpenter and more

Martin McCarty’s new responsibilities will include servicing Axis’ strategic capital partners.

Markel co-CEO Richard Whitt told an audience in Las Vegas that the launch of Lodgepine coincided with a need for capacity in the retro market.

Lloyd’s CEO John Neal has pledged to take action on the results of a culture survey completed by over 6,000 market participants.

Michael Halsband was formerly a partner at Drinker Biddle & Reath.

Non-life insurers in Japan are anticipating a 300bn yen ($2.8bn) loss from Typhoon Faxai, the chairman of the General Insurance Association of Japan has said.

The carrier launched the retrocessional ILS fund this month with Andrew Barnard as CEO.

Former Verto Syndicate underwriter Peter Mills hope to raise quota share support for his planned treaty MGA.

Theo Butt moves up from his managing agency CEO role to take over from Martin Reith who has led the business for the past four years.

Managing director Philipp Graf said the new arrangement with Allen Partners would bring the full suite of Twelve’s products to institutional investors in Australia and New Zealand.