People Moves: Beazley Cyber Adds Chubb’s Cohen, Promotes Larson; Scheurle Leads Burns & Wilcox’s Cannabis; Parametrix Hires Hiscox’s Wong

Beazley Hires Two for Cyber Services

Insurer Beazley announced two senior leadership hires to its global Cyber Services team. Russ Cohen has been appointed head of U.S. Cyber Services, and Bala Larson has been promoted to head of Client Experience. Cohen will oversee risk management and incident response functions in the U.S., while Larson will work on delivering services to cyber clients.

Cohen has been involved in cyber losses and business interruption for over 25 years, most recently at Chubb, where he helped deliver cyber threat insights to customers and played a role in the company’s enhanced incident response and loss mitigation service offerings. He has served as vice president of Cyber Services at Chubb since 2015, and before that as an enterprise security architect.

Larson joined Beazley in 2007 as a middle market specialty lines underwriter. Currently she manages the Northwest region while also underwriting strategic large accounts for the region’s top broker partners, She will transfer her experience to heading up Client Experience. Her experience also includes work as a broker at Marsh.

Cohen will be based in Philadelphia, while Larson will be based out of Beazley’s San Francisco office.

Parametrix Insurance Appoints Hiscox’s Wong as Head of Insurance

New York-based Parametrix Insurance, a provider of cloud downtime insurance, reports it appointed Hiscox veteran Rick Wong as head of insurance. Wong will lead the Parametrix team focusing on broker relations and the development of the broker channel.

An insurance industry executive of 18 years, Wong has held underwriting, broker relations, and leadership roles at Hiscox USA for the last 13 years.

Downtime insurance covers financial losses for businesses when outages of the cloud or e-commerce platforms occur. The Parametrix platform automates risk assessment, provides quotes, and delivers payments within days.

Burns & Wilcox Expands U.S. Cannabis Team With Scheurle as National Product Leader

Wholesale broker Burns & Wilcox announced the addition of Jason Scheurle as national product leader, Cannabis.

In his new role Scheurle is responsible for developing and expanding the company’s business portfolio of cannabis products nationwide. His role includes partnering with teams across the company’s network to leverage market opportunities. H

Based in Philadelphia, Scheurle reports to Jodie Kaufman Davis, who is managing director, Burns & Wilcox Canada.

Scheurle joins Burns & Wilcox after serving as Head of Cannabis Underwriting at Huckleberry, a digital provider of small business insurance. Previously he spent six years at Hudson as a senior underwriter, where he specialized in excess and surplus lines business for binding and middle markets, including cannabis. Prior to that experience, he spent more than a decade at United States Liability Insurance (USLI) with a focus in personal, commercial and liquor liability.

Burns & Wilcox is a long-time cannabis broker in Canada and was first-to-market with package solutions for the recreational cannabis market in that country. Burns & Wilcox sees this experience providing momentum for its stateside plans, especially given the industry’s market growth in the U.S. totaling a worth of $61 billion.

Topics Cyber USA Agencies Cannabis Chubb