This version of Worldwide Folks Strikes particulars appointments at Lloyd’s, Chaucer, and H.W. Kaufman Group.
A abstract of those new hires follows right here.
Lloyd’s Names Hernandez Market Growth Mgr., Central America
Lloyd’s, the re/insurance coverage market for business, company and specialty threat options, introduced the appointment of Yelhis Hernandez as Lloyd’s market growth supervisor for Central America. She assumes the function along with her tasks as nation supervisor for Mexico.
Based mostly in Mexico Metropolis, Yelhis has been nation supervisor for Lloyd’s in Mexico since September 2019 with a give attention to bettering Lloyd’s Market entry throughout Mexico by supporting Managing Brokers on the bottom and appearing as a liaison with the native regulator.
In her new capability Yelhis will even be chargeable for creating entry to Lloyd’s throughout all the Central America area (which incorporates six international locations: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua).
She was beforehand a Enterprise Growth Govt for Lloyd’s in Latin America and has greater than 20 years of re/insurance coverage sector expertise. Yelhis has spent the final 10 years working in a wide range of roles, together with threat administration, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), technique and enterprise growth, in numerous markets throughout Latin America, together with Argentina, Venezuela, Brazil and Mexico. Earlier than becoming a member of Lloyd’s she was chief operations officer for Willis Towers Watson in Mexico.
Latin America and the Caribbean accounts for about 7% of all gross written premium (GWP) within the Lloyd’s market. Lloyd’s predominantly writes reinsurance (round 80%) with about 20% direct insurance coverage (principally written within the Caribbean). At current, Mexico stays the most important marketplace for Lloyd’s in Latin America, owing to its excessive stage of pure disaster publicity.
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Chaucer Appoints Argenta’s Sheppard for Renewable Energy Group
Specialty re/insurance coverage group Chaucer has appointed Ben Sheppard as class underwriter to affix its lately created Renewable Energy group, led by Lyndsey Picton.
His appointment helps Chaucer’s dedication to the renewable vitality sector by offering devoted useful resource to assist construct its offshore renewable vitality proposition supporting insureds to efficiently ship sustainable renewable energy applied sciences.
With greater than 19 years of trade expertise, Sheppard joins Chaucer from Argenta Personal Capital. Previous to this he labored at Aon and Marsh the place he performed a key function in creating and inserting renewable vitality enterprise for corporations delivering business offshore wind tasks throughout Europe. He’s ACII certified and has an MBA from Bayes Enterprise College.
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H.W. Kaufman Group Promotes Kaufman Davis to Expanded Exec Roles
H.W. Kaufman Group, the Farmington Hills, Mich.-based insurance coverage group, has introduced the promotion of Jodie Kaufman Davis to government vp in addition to chief technique officer of Kaufman subsidiary, Atain Insurance coverage Cos. She additionally was named president of Burns & Wilcox Canada.
She beforehand served as senior vp for H.W. Kaufman Group and managing director for Burns & Wilcox Canada.
As government vp and board member at H.W. Kaufman Group, Kaufman Davis helps implement technique and management-driven initiatives, providing path on greatest practices and experience to globally develop enterprise partnerships, groups, and product strains.
For Atain, the corporate’s “A”-rated insurance coverage provider, she’s going to proceed to work intently with the management group to establish rising markets – resembling vitality and hashish – the place it could possibly efficiently deploy capability and elevate its enterprise.
Kaufman Davis stays chargeable for the expansion of RB Jones, a Kaufman subsidiary and chief in offering specialty threat protection options for enterprise resembling business marine, vitality, and property.
As chief of the Burns & Wilcox Canada group, Kaufman Davis has persistently delivered record-breaking development and outcomes over the previous six years, the corporate stated. Kaufman Davis now oversees the Canadian operations as president.
Kaufman Davis is the chief sponsor for Kaufman’s Range Fairness & Inclusion Initiative. She helps strategize and implement programming for its 2,000-plus associates, reinforcing their dedication to making sure an inclusive workforce.
“I sit up for increasing my management function and taking over new challenges inside our H.W. Kaufman Group corporations,” stated Kaufman Davis. “Once I took on managing Burns & Wilcox Canada, we discovered our efforts for driving enterprise and expertise efficiency flourished, and we need to domesticate that very same end result into Atain Insurance coverage Cos., RB Jones and throughout all Kaufman Firms globally.”
Based in 1969, H.W. Kaufman Group employs greater than 2,000 professionals. The group contains: Burns & Wilcox, Burns & Wilcox Brokerage, Burns & Wilcox Canada, Atain Insurance coverage Cos., Afirm, International Extra Companions, RB Jones, Stonemark, Minuteman Adjusters, Kaufman Institute, and Noremac Advertising Group. H.W. Kaufman Group Worldwide contains: H.W. Kaufman Group Europe, Chesterfield Group, Lochain Patrick, Burns & Wilcox United Kingdom, Node Worldwide and Cranbrook Underwriting
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