People Moves: Resilience Makes Underwriting, Distribution Promotions; Duhart Now Specialty CUO of HDI Global US

Resilience, headquartered in San Francisco, promoted Chris Pitcher to head of North America underwriting strategy and operations and Alex Carleton to U.S. distribution leader.

Pitcher joined Resilience in 2025 and most recently served as senior vice president of enterprise underwriting performance where he led enterprise initiatives spanning underwriting playbooks, workflow automation, and capacity and product projects. He previously spent a decade at Arch Insurance, where he held underwriting roles in its U.S. professional liability business before becoming assistant vice president and head of cyber for Arch Insurance Canada. Pitcher will take on strategic oversight of distribution and operations across the U.S. and Canada and will continue working across Resilience’s product, operations, and underwriting teams.

Carleton joined Resilience in 2022 as western regional manager. He has more than a decade of experience in commercial insurance across underwriting and brokerage. Before Resilience, he was an underwriting consultant at CNA and a master underwriter at Intact Insurance Specialty Solutions. Earlier, he spent nearly four years underwriting mid-market technology and life science accounts at The Hartford. Carleton will lead Resilience’s relationships with retail and wholesale broker partners across the U.S., maintaining Resilience’s national presence in the market and ensuring broker feedback reaches Resilience’s underwriting and product teams.

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HDI Global US Makes Specialty CUO Appointments

Corporate & specialty insurer HDI Global U.S. made two senior underwriting appointments. Maria Duhart joins as chief underwriting officer (CUO), U.S. Specialty, and Dan Feige has been promoted to CUO, U.S. short-tail lines. Both report to Shadi Albert, CEO, HDI Global U.S., and serve on the U.S. executive leadership team.

Duhart joins from AXA XL to provide senior underwriting leadership and coordination across architects and engineers, credit and political risk, equine and delegated authority. She will also direct HDI’s future U.S. Surety business, currently in development. Duhart most recently led the U.S. East zone client and distribution team at AXA XL. She previously served as CUO for AXA XL’s Americas specialty niche business and held senior leadership roles at Nationwide and Chubb.

In his CUO capacity, Feige provides senior underwriting leadership and coordination across the US short-tail portfolio, including property, energy and ocean marine. He joined HDI Global U.S. in June 2026. He continues to lead engineering, first-party construction and inland marine. Before HDI Global U.S., he was CUO, marine, major accounts at Liberty Mutual.