Ascot expands U.S. Management Liability and Financial Institutions group
NEW YORK, NY, 18 December 2019: Ascot today announces the appointment of Crystal Greene as Senior Vice President, Head of Management Liability. Crystal will lead Ascot’s commercial D&O and related product business in the U.S from Atlanta. She joins Ascot with 25...
Ascot appoints Patrick Kenahan and Excess Casualty team
BERMUDA, 29 October 2019: Ascot today announces the appointment of Patrick Kenahan as Head of Excess Casualty in Bermuda; and Jason Pugi, Kimberley Pursell and Michael Watkins, as Senior Vice Presidents. The team will write excess casualty insurance for large...
Ascot hires Jeff Vetter as Inland Marine head
NEW YORK, NY, 19 February 2019: Ascot today announces the appointment of Jeff Vetter as Executive Vice President and Head of Inland Marine. Based in Atlanta, Jeff will build an inland marine practice taking advantage of both the admitted and E&S capabilities of...
Ascot and Beazley launch $50m InsurTech linked cargo consortium
LONDON, 12 February 2019: Ascot and Beazley today announced the launch of a Lloyd’s based cargo consortium that uses insurtech solutions to help manage risk and claims performance. Led by Ascot and Beazley, the A2B consortium brings together a range of cargo carriers...
Ascot expands U.S. Marine team with West Coast hires
New York, NY, 14 December 2018: Ascot today announces the appointment of Chris Johnson and Jocelyne Factor as Underwriters in its U.S. marine team. Both will be based in the new San Francisco office, expanding Ascot’s geographic footprint to the West Coast. Chris,...
Ethos Specialty Insurance Services hires Lawyers Professional group
NEW YORK, NY, 27 November 2018: Ethos Specialty Insurance Services (Ethos), an Ascot Group Company, today announces the appointment of a Lawyers Professional Liability (LPL) group led by Todd Cusano, Senior Vice President. Todd is joined in New York by Heather...
Ascot appoints John O’Brien as Head of Environmental
NEW YORK, NY, 19 November 2018: Ascot today announces the appointment of John O’Brien as Executive Vice President and Head of Environmental. John will be responsible for launching an environmental liabilities and related specialty product business unit accessing both...
Ascot launches Ascot Insurance U.S.
BERMUDA, 10 October 2018: Ascot Group today announces the launch of Ascot U.S. and the appointment of Greg Wolyniec as its President and CEO, based in New York City. Ascot also announces the completion of the acquisition of Greyhawk Insurance Company, a Colorado...
Ethos Specialty appoints Rory Cline as President and CEO
NEW YORK, NY: 17 September 2018: Ethos Specialty Insurance Services (Ethos), Ascot Group’s US MGU platform, has appointed Rory Cline as President and CEO. Rory takes the helm from his current role as Chief Underwriting Officer having joined Ethos Specialty at...
Ascot launches new Trade Credit Division
NEW YORK, NY: 25 July 2018 Ascot today announces the launch of a new trade credit insurance division with the appointments of Doug Collins as Executive Vice President and Head of Trade Credit and Anthony Barrett as Senior Vice President of Trade Credit. Doug, who will...