Liberty Mutual Insurance announced appointments to two newly created roles in its Global Risk Solutions (GRS) Office of Underwriting. Effective Sept. 26, Julia Chu will join as head of Underwriting Planning, Performance & Portfolio Management, and Thomas Leahy will become global product leader, Financial Lines. Both will report to GRS President of Underwriting Matthew Moore.

Chu will establish a global GRS underwriting strategy, working with leaders across the commercial and specialty re/insurance unit while providing actionable insights to manage market dynamics and drive results. She brings more than 20 years of strategy and transformation leadership experience, and joins from Markel, where she was chief risk officer.

Leahy will be responsible for financial lines globally. He will set the global product strategy, monitor overall performance of the portfolio and partner with the newly appointed chief underwriting officers across GRS to ensure successful execution. He has more than 20 years of leadership experience, including more than 15 with Liberty Mutual. Leahy is currently president, Professional Liability, for GRS North America Specialty.

Chu and Leahy are the most recent appointments by Moore since he was named GRS president of Underwriting in April. Earlier this year, he appointed Chantal Rodriguez as Liberty Mutual Reinsurance chief underwriting officer, Brandon Fick as North America CUO, Nate Zangerle as CUO for Global Surety and Elizabeth Geary as president, Insurance Solutions.

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Everest Reinsurance announced that Catherine Rudow will join the company as global head of Cyber Reinsurance, reporting to Jill Beggs, head of North America Reinsurance.

In this newly created role, Rudow will be responsible for managing Everest’s cyber reinsurance business while driving consistent underwriting best practices and guidelines across the division globally. She will also focus on cultivating both new and existing broker and customer relationships and working to establish customized reinsurance solutions that keep pace with the evolving cyber risk landscape.

Rudow brings deep reinsurance and insurance cyber underwriting experience and has expertise managing portfolios of cyber business, developing and executing on cyber-specific strategies, and establishing industry-wide connections. Most recently, she served as a vice president for Nationwide E&S. Prior to that, she held several leadership roles at Partner Reinsurance Co. of the U.S.

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SCOR named Chris Beazley as chief executive officer of SCOR UK and the SCOR Syndicate, effective Sept. 20, 2022, subject to regulatory approval.

Beazley takes over the role from Stuart McMurdo, who was appointed as CEO of Reinsurance following the announcement in June that Michel Blanc will retire with effect from January 2023. Based in London, he will report to Catherine Fassi, regional CEO of EMEA and Canada for P/C business.

Beazley brings more than 20 years of experience to his new role, having worked for underwriting and broking firms in the UK, Switzerland, Singapore and the U.S. He is a Chartered Insurer and an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute.