PartnerRe Ltd. announced that Mario Bonaccorso, executive vice president and chief financial officer, will retire from the company on March 31, 2020 to pursue a new entrepreneurial venture with financial support from Partner Re’s parent company, EXOR.
He will be succeeded by Nicolas Burnet, who will join the company on Feb. 3, 2020, subject to regulatory and immigration approvals.
Burnet will join PartnerRe Ltd. as executive vice president and chief financial officer and member of the executive leadership team. He joins from the Zurich Insurance Group, where over the past 15 years he has held a number of leadership positions, including chief risk officer and chief financial officer, Global Life, and CFO of General Insurance. Most recently, he was group head of Planning and Performance Management. Prior to joining Zurich Insurance Group, Burnet was with Neuberger Berman.
Bonaccorso will be invited to join the PartnerRe Ltd. board of directors as a non-voting observer as he would not be deemed an independent director per NYSE listing rules.
Commenting on Bonaccorso’s retirement, president and CEO Emmanuel Clarke, said: “Mario has been very instrumental to the company’s progress since he joined in April 2016. He has successfully led a number of strategic initiatives, including our efficiency efforts which have led to a significant reduction in our expense ratio, the optimization of our capital structure and the reduction in our financing costs, the improvement of our financial strength ratings and the build-up of our third-party capital platform. Mario has consistently delivered outstanding results and I am immensely grateful to him for what he has accomplished and what he leaves behind.”
Clarke commented that Burnet’s “deep experience in risk, capital, and finance functions in both the life and non-life businesses that will benefit us as we continue to grow as a composite reinsurance company.”
Concurrent with this change, the company announced it will appoint Andrew Gibbs as executive vice president and chief operations officer, effective Oct. 14, 2019. The newly created position will have responsibility over the company’s end-to-end underwriting processes, including underwriting support, reinsurance accounting, claims, payments and collections, as well as its legal, compliance and internal audit services.
Gibbs brings more than 30 years’ experience in insurance, reinsurance, regulatory compliance and financial services, having held senior positions with the Bermuda Monetary Authority, Validus Holdings Ltd., ACE Group of Companies (now Chubb Group of Cos.) and Ernst & Young. He joins PartnerRe Ltd. from Maiden Reinsurance Ltd., where he has held the position of executive chairman since January 2019.
Burnet and Gibbs will be located in the company’s Bermuda headquarters.
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