Hardy Underwriting Appoints Brosnan to replace Merry as leader government

Hardy (Underwriting businesses) restricted, a specialist London-primarily based re/insurance underwriting enterprise, introduced the appointment of David Brosnan as its chief government. He has also been appointed to serve on the Hardy Board of directors. “those appointments are powerful at once and were permitted by way of the Prudential law Authority (PRA) and are difficulty to approval through Lloyd’s of London,” the bulletin said. He replaces Barbara Merry as leader government.

Tom Motamed, chairman of the Hardy Board of directors and chairman and chief executive officer of CNA monetary enterprise (CNA), described Brosnan’s enjoy as uniquely qualifying him to “lead Hardy inside the execution of its critical position in broadening the CNA method to extend our geographic and product attain.”

As leader govt of Hardy and as a non-executive director of the CNA coverage employer constrained (CICL) Board, Brosnan may be based totally in London. he'll work closely with John Hennessy, leader executive of CICL, to broaden strategies as a way to align organisation-extensive abilties and support international services to customers.

Motamed expressed his thanks to Ms. Merry, commenting: “Barbara has been a treasured and relied on member of the Hardy control team and Board for 12 years. I commend her tremendous management, inclusive of her role within the powerful transition of Hardy to an entirely owned, oblique subsidiary of CNA.”

Brosnan joined CNA in might also 2013 as senior vice president of international. His obligations blanketed leading an underwriting team in the strengthening of CNA’s domestic overseas enterprise, and an expansion of its worldwide abilities.

He has extra than 27 years of enterprise enjoy. preceding to CNA, he was with ACE Canada, maximum substantially serving as president and CEO of ACE INA and ACE INA life coverage agencies. prior to that, he served as president of ACE Casualty danger and held diverse underwriting positions, including eu sector underwriting officer with Chubb in London.