People Moves: Arch’s Kashuba, TransRe’s Robinson to Ascot; Marsh’s Little to MS Amlin; Allianz’ Schaefer to Howden

These international People Moves detail new hires at two Lloyd’s insurers (Ascot and MS Amlin) and broker Howden.

A summary of these appointments follows here.

Insurer Ascot Group announced the expansion of its U.S. facultative reinsurance capabilities with the appointment of Anthony Kashuba, executive vice president, and Steve Robinson, senior vice president.

Kashuba will help oversee Ascot’s overall North America Casualty FAC product suite and facilitate new and expanded solutions across the casualty product spectrum. Based in Ascot Group’s Stamford, Conn. office, Kashuba joins Ascot from Arch Reinsurance where he was managing director, responsible for its casualty facultative operations in North America. Throughout a 30-year career, Kashuba has held a number of senior underwriting and broking roles within the casualty sphere, including stints at Allied World, Swiss Re and Willis Re.

Robinson joins to initiate and increase Ascot’s presence in the professional lines segment of the FAC market. He joins from TransRe where he wrote a range of management and professional lines. Prior to this, he was at Chubb, writing public company management liability.

Kashuba and Robinson will also assume responsibility for the Casualty FAC solutions currently provided out of Dallas, Texas, by Scott Beall and Lex Smart, both of whom will retire at the end of 2021. The enhanced casualty FAC team will complement Ascot’s long-standing property FAC capabilities that have been provided in the U.S. since 2009 and are led by Libby Ismail, senior vice president.

Both men will report to Rory Cline, who in a new role, is promoted to president of Ascot’s U.S. reinsurance solutions, and in turn reports to Jonathan Zaffino, group president.

Ascot’s North America FAC solutions are provided from Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, New York and Stamford, utilizing the capacity of Ascot’s Syndicate 1414 at Lloyd’s.

“This new grouping of our FAC solutions will enable us to provide a broader range of products, better service, operational efficiencies and solution expansion. Anthony and Steve are talented underwriters, and their appointments give us the opportunity to expand into new casualty FAC areas such as auto and professional lines,” commented Cline.

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MS Amlin Underwriting Ltd., (MS AUL), the Lloyd’s specialty re/insurer, announced the appointment of Richard Little as senior underwriter for Marine Energy Liability. Little will take up the role later this year and report directly to Kevin Massey, Marine Liability Product group leader.

With nearly 20 years of industry experience, Little joins from Marsh where he most recently held the role of head of Energy Liability Team. During his 12-year tenure at Marsh he held various roles within the energy practice while constantly serving as a senior offshore property broker. He was also a member of the Marsh Technical Advisory Group, which debates and develops new market initiatives, wordings, and clauses. He began his career at JLT Agnew Higgins.

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Howden, the London-based insurance broker, announced has appointed Holger Schaefer as chief executive officer, Germany, to lead its companies in the country. Germany is an important market for Howden, where it owns a group of specialist businesses, which combined make it the country’s sixth largest insurance broker.

Schaefer joins Howden on Sept. 1 after more than 30 years working for the Allianz Group. Schaefer latterly held international roles as regional CEO for Asia Pacific for Euler Hermes since 2016 and previously CEO of Allianz’s Corporate and Specialty business in Australia and New Zealand. Prior to that, he was part of Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty, Germany, for 20 years, where he held senior positions in underwriting and sales, managing multinational clients.

His new role will mean a return to his home country to lead Howden’s growth ambitions for the German market. Schaefer will also focus on strategic acquisitions of other culturally aligned companies, and investing in talent and digital transformation.

The appointment of Schaefer as CEO, Germany, follows the recent announcements of Felix Jenny as CEO, Switzerland, and Luigi Sturani and Enrico Nanni as CEO and CCO, Europe, respectively.

José Manuel González, CEO, Howden Broking, commented: “I am delighted to welcome Holger to the group, who will lead our continuing expansion in the German market, building on the success we have delivered there so far and taking it to the next level. Our ambition is to be one of the top three brokers in key markets across Europe through strategic acquisitions, organic growth and investment in talent.”

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