People Moves: Miller Taps SCOR’s Foucart as Managing Director in Reinsurance Practice; Acrisure Re Corporate Advisory & Solutions Appoints 4 Senior Hires

This edition of International People Moves details appointments at the brokers Miller and Acrisure Re.

A summary of these new hires follows here.

Miller Taps SCOR’s Foucart as Managing Director in Reinsurance Practice

Miller, the London-based independent specialist re/insurance broker, announce the appointment of Vincent Foucart as managing director in its Reinsurance practice.

Foucart joins from SCOR, where he served in a number of senior positions over the past 16 years, latterly as CEO of P&C Solutions. Having started his career at Allianz in 2000, he brings 25 years’ experience to Miller.

Foucart will support the implementation of the firm’s reinsurance scale-up strategy under the leadership of Miller’s head of Reinsurance & Capital, Shaun Sinniah. Foucart will focus primarily on Miller’s Western Europe markets, including France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Switzerland and Monaco, with responsibility for business growth and development across the three core pillars of international treaty, specialty lines and strategic advisory.

Foucart appointment marks the latest move in Miller’s international reinsurance build-out, closely following the firm’s acquisition of specialist reinsurance broker AHJ, announced earlier this month, as well as the acquisitions of capital advisory business 4809 Brokers and Spanish broker Bruzon in 2024.

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Acrisure Re Corporate Advisory & Solutions Appoints 4 Senior Hires

Acrisure Re, the re/insurance brokerage division of global fintech company Acrisure, announced four appointments to its Corporate Advisory & Solutions (ARCAS) division: Lauren Johnson, Assad Negyal, David Ryan, and Lucas He.

They will report to Ben Canagaretna, global managing director of ARCAS.

The biographies of these appointments are detailed below.

Lauren Johnson recently rejoined the London ARCAS team as the head of Funds at Lloyd’s (FAL). In her new role, Johnson will lead the division’s expanding Lloyd’s FAL capability – a key growth area for the company – after completing an 18-month tenure at Wakam. Johnson first joined ARCAS in 2021 as a vice president after spending six years at Securis Investment Partners as head of Lloyd’s and specialty analytics.

Assad Negyal has been named head of Pricing and is based in London. He has extensive experience as a pricing actuary and joined ARCAS in January from Starr Insurance where he was a senior pricing actuary. He also held similar roles at Chubb Europe, Zurich Financial Services, Barbican, Odyssey Re and Lloyd’s.

David Ryan has been appointed head of Exposure Management. Ryan joined ARCAS in London in late 2024 to lead the exposure management team. He brings more than 15 years of experience in this sector, previously holding similar roles at Talbot, Lloyd’s and Willis Re.

Lucas He joined ARCAS in February as vice president, Retrospective Solutions. Based in London, he has several years of legacy and M&A experience, having previously worked at R&Q as a VP in the M&A division. Prior to this, He was a legacy M&A and actuarial specialist at Catalina. He also held corporate development and M&A roles at Antares Reinsurance and JLT, respectively.

Topics Talent Reinsurance Human Resources