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Allianz Commercial unveils new financial lines underwriting teams
As part of its growth ambition Allianz Commercial has made a number of appointments to form a new financial lines team that will operate across three new regional hubs. Focussing solely on Allianz’s Directors & Officers and Professional Indemnity propositions they’ll increase Allianz’s presence in the market by working closely with branch distribution teams and local brokers to enable slick and simple trading.
The specialist hubs and appointments are as follows:
Northern Hub (Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle, Glasgow and Belfast)
• Gareth Machin – Senior Financial Lines Underwriter
• Maggie Kwok – Financial Lines Underwriter
• David Aguirreburualde – Financial Lines Underwriter
Midlands/South West Hub (Bristol, Birmingham and Cardiff)
• Luke Hayne – Senior Financial Lines Underwriter
• Antionette Amory – Financial Lines Underwriter
• Caitlin Davies – Financial Lines Underwriter
• Daniel West – Financial Lines Underwriter
South East Hub (Maidstone, Chelmsford, London and Southampton)
• Lucy Bunnett – Senior Professional Indemnity Underwriter
Dave Carey, managing director, mid-market, Allianz Commercial said: “We’ve invested heavily in recruiting the best people and I’m very happy to unveil our new look financial lines underwriting team. With a mixture of new faces and existing Allianz talent we have highly experienced and talented experts in place.
"The creation of regional hubs maximises local opportunities and empowers our underwriters to work closely and quickly with our broker partners in those areas. We have ambitious plans for growth and I’m excited that we’re embarking on this new strategy together.”
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The Allianz Group is one of the world's leading insurers and asset managers with 126 million* private and corporate customers in more than 70 countries. Allianz customers benefit from a broad range of personal and corporate insurance services, ranging from property, life and health insurance to assistance services to credit insurance and global business insurance. Allianz is one of the world’s largest investors, managing around 716 billion euros** on behalf of its insurance customers. Furthermore, our asset managers PIMCO and Allianz Global Investors manage nearly 1.8 trillion euros** of third-party assets. Thanks to our systematic integration of ecological and social criteria in our business processes and investment decisions, we are among the leaders in the insurance industry in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. In 2021, over 155,000 employees achieved total revenues of 148.5 billion euros and an operating profit of 13.4 billion euros for the group.
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*Including non-consolidated entities with Allianz customers.
** As of June 30, 2022
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