BMS Re appoints Mirabal CEO for Latin America and the Caribbean; Zurich Asia-Pacific is hiring Heads of Financial and Casualty Lines

Specialist reinsurer BMS Re announced his appointment Anthony Mirabal as CEO of the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) Division, effective November 2024.

Mirabal has over 30 years of experience in reinsurance, first as a casualty underwriter at Gen Re and then in underwriting, production and management roles with a number of prominent reinsurance businesses in the region such as ERC and EWB, before successfully developing its own reinsurance. intermediary (RRISC) based in Miami in 2001 – a business later acquired by JLTRe in 2016, leading to his recent 6-year tenure at Guy Carpenter since the acquisition of the JLT group in 2018 by MMC.

Mirabal will report to Nick Gillett, CEO of BMS International and will continue to be based in Miami. He will work closely with Juan Carlos Gomez, who will become President of Latin America and the Caribbean; and will continue to play a key role in helping shape regional strategy and supporting local offices.

New appointments in the Zurich Asia Pacific commercial insurance unit

Zurich Insurance Company (Singapore) Ltd. has announced key management appointments in its commercial insurance business in Asia Pacific. Based in Singapore, Robin Cooper-Driver was appointed Head of Financial Lines, Asia Pacific and Edward Rayfield will join Zurich as head of casualty, Asia Pacific.

Cooper-Driver and Rayfield will oversee the performance and growth of Zurich’s financial lines and casualty portfolios in Asia Pacific and will work closely with country teams to support and develop underwriting capabilities and execute on strategic priorities.

With over two decades of experience, including 13 years in Zurich, Cooper-Driver was most recently Head of Long Lines Australia and New Zealand and Head of Financial Lines Asia Pacific (based in Australia). Prior to this he held various underwriting and portfolio management positions at Zurich Australia.

Rayfield joins Zurich from AIG, where he was most recently Head of Casualty, Singapore and Major Accounts Asia. With over 14 years of experience, Rayfield also brings specialist technical and distribution expertise to the London, Australian and Asian Casualty markets.

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