People Moves: Zurich Promotes Nolan to Head of Surety in US; Zink Joins Everest to Lead Specialty Underwriters

Zurich Promotes Nolan to Head of Surety in US

Zurich North America, headquartered in Schaumburg, Illinois, has promoted Chris Nolan to head of surety in U.S. national accounts. Nolan, who is based in New Jersey, succeeds Bob Murray, who retired in June. Nolan now oversees both contract and commercial surety.

Nolan previously was head of large contract surety at Zurich. He joined Zurich in 2022 from Berkley Surety, where he served as chief risk officer and head of commercial surety. He began his career as an underwriting trainee at Chubb, where he advanced to senior underwriting officer.

Everest Names Zink Head of Specialty Underwriters

Everest Insurance, the insurance division of Everest Group, Ltd., headquartered in Warren, New Jersey, named Brian Zink senior vice president and head of Everest Specialty Underwriters (ESU) and U.S. Financial Lines.

Zink joins Everest from Zurich where he was head of financial lines for the company’s U.S. national accounts, also serving as head of management liability domestically. Prior to that, Zink held a variety of financial lines leadership positions with Beazley Group and The Hartford.

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