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- July 2 2025
QBE Asia amps up wholesale team with 2 senior leadership appointments
Wholesale insurer has named Hong Kong-based Cynthia Huang head of Taiwan and Greater China desk (facultative reinsurance) and Singapore-based Young Jun Lee as head of wholesale Asia, construction and engineering.
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- June 24 2025
Hong Kong’s Nova announces senior leadership changes as MD Patrick Chan retires
Rebecca Au will take over as managing director, while Conrad Wong and Joseph Lee have been named chief commercial officers.
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- June 23 2025
Samsung Re takes Gallagher Re’s Sie Liang Lau as head of cyber and casualty
Singapore-based Lau will lead build out of the reinsurer's portfolios across APAC and MENA, while supporting Samsung Fire & Marine's global cyber insurance ambitions.
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- June 17 2025
Exclusive: Zurich names Koji Okumura as senior property underwriter in Japan
Okumura earlier worked at Munich Re as an underwriter for almost 10 years, travelling between Japan and Hong Kong.
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- June 16 2025
Exclusive: Marsh Japan hires WTW veteran Hirofumi ‘Luke’ Nakamura amid exodus, talent battle
Tokyo-based Nakamura joins Marsh as a senior vice president along with several other former WTW colleagues.
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- June 10 2025
Exclusive: RiskPoint hires AIG’s George Blackborow as head of W&I in Asia
Blackborow will join the transactional risk team in Singapore to strengthen MGA's regional offering, APAC MD Maria Steeples exclusively confirmed to IAN.
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- June 10 2025
Exclusive: Markel appoints Axa’s Chelsea Jiang as greater China CEO
Jiang was most recently the chief technical and innovation officer for general insurance in greater China at Axa Hong Kong and Macau.
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- May 29 2025
Exclusive: Swiss Re CorSo reshuffles APAC leadership as China CEO, Southeast Asia head depart
China CEO Jeffrey Pan will depart by the end of the year, while Singapore-based Didier Bélot will leave the company by the end of August.
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- May 27 2025
Miller’s Japanese arm names Tokio Marine veteran Naoteru Akigami as CEO
Tokyo-based Akigami took over as head of Lead Insurance Services last month, succeeding Toru Suzuki, who now serves as executive chairman.
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- April 30 2025
Howden confirms Mandira Gupta as MD and M&A head
Gupta, who joins from rival Marsh, will lead the broker's private equity and transactional risk insurance solutions as first reported by IAN.
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- April 30 2025
Exclusive: BMS to shut down South Korea, Japan offices
Market sources tell IAN that most of the staff working in both offices of the M&A specialist broker will be let go.
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- April 22 2025
Exclusive: Swiss Re Corporate Solutions to shut Hong Kong office, surrender licence
Commercial insurer will consolidate operations servicing Chinese corporations into its mainland offices, IAN can reveal.
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- April 22 2025
Steve Hutchinson to join Willis as P&C head for Hong Kong, Macau after 4-month Howden stint
Hutchinson, who had joined Howden as chief broking officer in January, will take over from Phil Timms, who will transition to a new role, as IAN first reported.
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- April 17 2025
Exclusive: Integra regional MD Tony Chapman to join Crawford
Singapore-based Chapman will start in a newly created role as head of global technical services for Asia in May, IAN understands.
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- March 31 2025
Hong Kong’s Peak Re makes India foray with GIFT City branch
Office in the offshore special economic zone will be led by Sudhir Salian, managing director and head of India.
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- March 20 2025
Exclusive: Flora Fong to rejoin Marsh after short Howden stint
Hong Kong-based Fong had joined Howden last July having worked at Marsh for over 14 years.
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- March 14 2025
Exclusive: Moody’s RMS’ APAC managing director Andrew Hare departs
Singapore-based Hare had been with the risk modeller since 2022, having joined from Aon Inpoint.
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- March 13 2025
Exclusive: London P&I Club to dock in Shanghai, sail on Asian wave amid difficult-to-navigate geopolitical storm
Club also saw new tonnage increase in other APAC countries, such as South Korea, Vietnam, and Indonesia during last month's renewals.
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- March 12 2025
Exclusive: Generali GC&C’s Asia head of casualty underwriting departs
Wendy Law leaves carrier after more than three years, IAN can reveal.
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- February 27 2025
Exclusive: Circles Group hands Julie Quach, Kenneth Tan expanded roles as Asia co-regional directors
Quach is in the process of being appointed Hong Kong responsible officer, while Tan has assumed the role of responsible officer for Singapore.
