Chubb Bermuda Names Gonsalves Division President, Succeeding Clabby
Chubb has appointed Judy Gonsalves vice president of Chubb Group and division president of Bermuda. In this capacity, she has executive operating responsibility for the Bermuda-based commercial property and casualty (P/C) insurance business that writes high-limit excess liability, property, directors and officers, and political risk coverage worldwide.
In addition, she will lead all strategies around production, product development and management, and profit and loss performance for Chubb Bermuda.
Currently, Gonsalves serves as executive vice president and chief underwriting officer of Chubb Bermuda, where she partners with Joseph Clabby in leading the operation and is responsible for enhancing the profitability of the excess liability, property and financial lines books of business of Chubb Bermuda and Chubb Bermuda International.
Effective immediately, and subject to regulatory review, Gonsalves will succeed Clabby as Chubb’s division president of Bermuda. Clabby in turn will be named chairman of Chubb Bermuda. In this new role, Clabby will serve in an advisory role to Gonsalves and the Chubb Bermuda team.
In addition to Clabby’s Chubb Bermuda responsibilities, he will also join Chubb’s North America Field Management leadership team, with a focus on product expansion, distribution and cross sell initiatives in Chubb regions and branches. He will be based in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, and will report to Christopher Maleno, Chubb’s division president of its North American Field Operations.
Gonsalves will remain in Bermuda and will report to John Lupica, vice chairman, Chubb Group and president, North America Major Accounts and Specialty Insurance.
With more than 25 years of experience in the insurance industry, Gonsalves joined Chubb Bermuda (formerly ACE Bermuda) in 1992 as an assistant underwriter in the Excess Liability department. In 2004, she was appointed senior vice president, assuming product line management responsibility for ACE Bermuda and ACE Bermuda International’s catastrophe excess liability portfolio, and was promoted to executive vice president in April 2010, before assuming her current role.
Clabby has more than three decades of industry experience, with 17 years being spent at Chubb. Most recently, he was Chubb’s division president of Bermuda and its Global Accounts Division. Prior to ACE’s acquisition of Chubb in January 2016, he served in a number of leadership positions, including president, ACE Continental Europe, president of Regional Operations for ACE USA and president of ACE USA West.
Source: Chubb
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