People Moves: Acrisure Re Appoints 4; Amwins Global Risks Hires Beazley’s Hensman, Davies From Lloyd’s; Favre Joins SiriusPoint for Credit, Bond & Political Risk

This edition of International People Moves covers appointments at Acrisure Re, Amwins Global Risks and SiriusPoint.

A summary of these new hires follows here.

Reinsurance Broker Acrisure Re Augments Corporate Advisory and Solutions Division With 4 Appointments

Acrisure Re, the reinsurance division of fintech leader and top-10 global insurance broker Acrisure, announced appointments within its corporate advisory and solutions division, reporting to managing director, Ben Canagaretna.

Nick Godfrey – head of capital markets. Godfrey has 25 years of industry experience, working primarily with capital markets, insurance markets and other third-party capital vehicles. He has held various risk owner, broker and board positions in global markets across multiple classes of business. He co-founded the reinsurance proprietary investment arm of BTG, which acquired Ariel Re. Most recently, he was a senior adviser at Barbican and Arch Re. In his new role, Godfrey will be responsible for capital raising activities across insurance linked securities; funds at Lloyd’s and supporting M&A and other balance sheet engineering activities.

Jonathan Zisaruk – head of legacy. Zisaruk is a chartered accountant and senior insurance M&A professional with more than 18 years of experience managing the acquisition of legacy reinsurance portfolios. He joins Acrisure Re having previously worked at Enstar for more than 15 years, most recently as head of M&A and executive vice president. He has been involved in more than 40 successful transactions, involving over $10 billion of reserves, including deals in the US, UK, Lloyd’s, Bermuda, Europe, and Australia. In his new role, Zisaruk will be responsible for leading all types of legacy transactions from structured adverse development covers to more classical loss portfolio transfers, understanding how to get the best solutions for clients.

Lauren Johnson – vice president of corporate advisory and solutions. Johnson has more than 10 years of industry experience and joins Acrisure Re from Securis Investment Partners where she held roles as the head of Lloyd’s and specialty analysis and as a reserving actuary. Prior to this, she was a director in the strategic risk consulting team at Willis Limited. In her new role, Johnson will run the execution process across the four pillars of ARCAS namely strategic advisory, capital raising, legacy solutions and M&A.

Nick Triggs – non-executive board member and senior adviser, corporate advisory and solutions. Triggs has extensive experience providing advice to company boards and executive management teams across the financial services spectrum. He has worked in the industry for more than 30 years and has closed around 140 M&A, equity and debt capital raising deals. He has a broad and deep understanding of different business models with a particular focus on the P&C insurance sector over recent years.

Amwins Global Risks Hires Beazley’s Hensman, Davies From Lloyd’s

Amwins Global Risks announced the appointment of Colm Hensman as chief operating officer and Lindsey Davies as director of Operations. As the international arm of a global specialty insurance broker, Amwins Global Risks is one of the largest independent wholesale brokers in London.

Hensman joins Amwins Global Risks from Beazley where he most recently held the position of head of Business Management. He brings 20-plus years of insurance experience, spending 16 years at Beazley Group, where he held senior roles across actuarial, business development and digital distribution. In his new role, Hensman will help accelerate new and existing strategic initiatives at Amwins Global Risks as the business continues to grow.

Davies joins from Lloyd’s of London where she worked as delegated authority senior manager. Davies also brings 20-plus years of insurance experience, having previously worked at Aon and QBE in senior roles. She will bring a wealth of knowledge and expertise as Amwins Global Risks continues to build out its London platform.

SiriusPoint Names Favre as Senior U/W for Credit, Bond & Political Risk Team

SiriusPoint Ltd., the Bermuda-based specialty insurer and reinsurer, has announced that Pierre Favre has joined the company as senior underwriter. Based in Zurich, Favre will report to Bernard Hoge, vice president, Manager Credit, Bond & Political Risk Reinsurance, based in Belgium. Favre will focus on developing strong relationships with brokers and clients to grow SiriusPoint’s book.

Favre has 25 years of experience as a leader in the Trade Credit and Surety reinsurance market where he had underwriting responsibility for key trade credit and surety accounts across multiple regions. He started his career with Swiss Re in 1996 before joining Aspen Re in 2008 where he played an instrumental role in building a credit and surety portfolio, acting as senior underwriter and head of underwriting operations. From 2015 through 2017 he also served as chairman of the Credit Insurance Committee of ICISA, the International Credit and Surety Association.

SiriusPoint is a top 20 global insurer and reinsurer providing solutions to clients and brokers in almost 150 countries. SiriusPoint writes a global portfolio of accident and health, specialty, property and runoff. With more than $3 billion total capital, SiriusPoint’s operating companies have a financial strength rating of A- (Excellent) from AM Best, S&P and Fitch. It is listed on the New York Stock Exchange as “SPNT.”