Whamond Named COO of HCC Insurance; Irick Promoted to CFO

Houston-based HCC Insurance Holdings Inc., announced that effective Aug. 10, 2010, W. Tobin Whamond, executive vice president and chief financial officer of HCC, will become chief operating officer, and Brad T. Irick, who was hired on May 10 as an executive vice president of the company, will become its chief financial officer.

Irick was formerly with PricewaterhouseCoopers for 18 years, where he served as audit partner for several multinational public insurance company clients, including HCC between 2004 and the first half of 2007. Prior to PricewaterhouseCoopers, Irick was at KPMG.

Source: HCC Insurance Holdings Inc.