Executives on the Move
U.S. Firms Face High CEO Turnover Due to Poor Succession Planning
About 1 of every 8 chief executive officers at the biggest publicly traded U.S. firms leave within three years. Better succession planning could improve longevity and save shareholders billions of ...
If You Take Risk Aversion Too Far, You and Your Company Won’t Grow
Executives on the rise are generally risk-averse people. That makes it necessary to fight that tendency if you want to rise through the ranks, according to a new writeup at the KelloggInsight blog. ...
Executives On The Move at Liberty Mutual, Hamilton Re and Willis Towers Watson
Liberty Mutual Insurance appointed four executives who will beef up the technology capabilities of its chief information officer. Hamilton Re hired away a Hiscox Re executive to fill a newly created ...
A New Specialty Biz Emerges From Marsh’s Pending $5.6B Acquisition of JLT
Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc. is forming Marsh-JLT Specialty, a new business within the company that combines the specialty teams of Marsh and the broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc. Marsh ...
Assurant Revamps With an Eye on Growth and Greater Technology Use
Assurant revamped its operating structure and made a new senior management appointments – changes designed to help the company grow more quickly and increase its use of technology. "As the needs of ...
COIN Re, Ted Blanch’s Latest Venture, Invites Customers to Be Owners
At age 82, E.W. "Ted" Blanch is in the position of many entrepreneurs less than half his age: launching a new company. He's the co-founder and president of COIN Re, a Florida-based reinsurance broker ...
Executives On The Move at Great American Insurance Group and Swiss Re
An ex-Liberty Mutual executive joined Great American Insurance Group to help grow its cyber liability business. Swiss Re Corporate Solutions hired a new head of Property & Specialty Lines in ...
Zurich Canada Revamps Both Its Organizational Structure and Executive Team
Zurich Canada announced a new organizational structure and team designed to simplify and strengthen the insurer's go-to-market approach. "We now have the structure in place to ramp up our support for ...