People Moves: FM Global Names Broad, Johnson to New Roles; Koller Joins Amlin From Prudential

FM Global Names New Chief Officers of Underwriting and Client Experience

FM Global, the Johnston, R.I.-based commercial property insurer, has promoted two of its senior leaders into new roles.

Lyndon D. Broad has been appointed senior vice president, chief underwriting officer and will manage the company’s underwriting and reinsurance functions. He previously was operations senior vice president of FM Global’s Boston operations. He succeeds Randall E. Hodge who was recently promoted to executive vice president, staff insurance operations.

Broad joined the mutual insurance company in 1995 as a loss prevention consultant in Brisbane, Australia. He then undertook various roles in Seattle, Melbourne, Singapore and the United Kingdom before returning to Melbourne, Australia as claims manager. Broad went on to head FM Global’s middle market unit, AFM, in Sydney before being appointed vice president and manager of FM Global’s Australian operations.

David M. Johnson has been named senior vice president, chief client experience officer and will oversee client experience, market relations, marketing and the company’s business risk consulting group. Most recently, he was operations senior vice president of FM Global’s Atlanta operations.

Since joining the company in 1990, Johnson has held various positions in FM Global’s Seattle branch office, Dallas operations, Stockholm branch and Singapore. A specialist in forest products risk management, he started his career as a loss prevention consultant and moved on to assume numerous engineering, client service, operations and management roles of increasing responsibility including regional senior vice president and manager of FM Global’s Asia operations.

MS Amlin AG appoints Michael Koller as Chief Risk Officer

Global reinsurer MS Amlin AG has appointed Michael Koller as chief risk officer. Koller will be based in Zurich.

With almost 30 years of industry experience, Koller joins MS AAG from Prudential where he held the position of group risk director for nine years. Prior to this, Koller was the CRO at Aviva, in addition to being a member of the European executive board. A trained actuary, he has held other senior risk and actuarial roles at Partner Re, Swiss Re and Swiss Life over the course of his career, and has actively engaged with regulatory authorities, such as Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority.

Upon his appointment, Koller will be taking over the CRO role from Catherine Farnworth, who is leaving the business after more than eight years.