Executive Profiles
RSA Insurance CEO’s First Year Compensation May Top $9 Million
RSA Insurance Group Plc Chief Executive Officer Stephen Hester, drafted in to turn around the U.K. insurer, may be paid as much as 5.6 million pounds ($9.3 million) for his first 12 months in the ...
TigerRisk Names Bartell to Lead UK Retro Practice
TigerRisk Partners, the reinsurance broking and risk/capital management firm, announced Wednesday that Martin Bartell has been named head of the company's UK-based retrocessional and specialty ...
Markel’s Michael Crowley: Former Broker COO Deepening Carrier Sales Culture
Michael Crowley had been in the chief operating role of property/casualty insurance organizations for nearly two decades when he signed on to be an executive for Markel Corp. in 2009. But for all of ...
Private Equity, Insurance Execs Team Up on Earthquake Insurer Startup
Genstar Capital Management, LLC, a middle market private equity firm announced Wednesday that it has partnered with insurance industry veteran David M. "Mac" Armstrong to set up an earthquake ...
From the Front Lines to the C-Suite: Farmers’ David Travers
When he was taking policyholder phone calls as a customer representative for a direct writing carrier 26 years ago, David Travers did not have designs on a position in the C-suite of an agency ...
Endurance Specialty’s Catherine Kalaydjian: Thriving With Change
Just six months after John Charman took the reins of Endurance Specialty Holdings in May 2013, he announced to the investor community that the management team had been completely restructured. In ...
RSA Insurance Poaches Zurich Exec Norgrove for Irish Unit
RSA Insurance Group Plc named Ken Norgrove as chief executive officer of its Irish unit as the company seeks to put a scandal in Ireland that led to a $1.3 billion rights issue behind it. Norgrove ...
RLI’s Michael Stone: Managing People Is the Key to COO Role
"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs…" With apologies to Rudyard Kipling, you might finish that sentence with the phrase "you can be the chief operating officer of a ...