People Moves: LoPiccolo Takes on Client Engagement at AXIS Re; WTW’s Layton Joins Lockton Re; Futers Returns to RMS in UK

In today’s International People Moves, appointments are detailed from AXIS Re, Lockton Re and catastrophe modeling company RMS.

A summary of these new hires follows here.

AXIS Re, the reinsurance business segment of AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd. announced the appointment of Matt LoPiccolo as strategic account executive, Global Brokers, for its client engagement initiative, AXIS Re Strategic Partners.

LoPiccolo joins the Reinsurance team after having served as head of U.S. Digital Distribution within the company’s insurance segment. He will continue to be based in New York and will report to Jason Busti, AXIS Re president of North America and head of AXIS Re Strategic Partners.

In this newly created role, LoPiccolo will be responsible for enhancing relationships with AXIS Re’s Global Brokers across all lines of business, and building out others. He will also be responsible for working collectively with AXIS Re’s Global Brokers to develop new business opportunities and collaborate on solutions. AXIS Re Strategic Partners, launched in 2018, is a dedicated team to serve select clients and brokers.

LoPiccolo has more than 24 years of industry experience across the broking and insurance sectors. He joined AXIS Insurance in 2016, holding roles such as head of U.S. Distribution for the Professional Lines Division and head of US Digital Distribution. Prior to AXIS, LoPiccolo held various roles at AIG within its sales and marketing and distribution divisions. He began his career at MarshMcLennan.

LoPiccolo’s appointment was effective July 6.

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Lockton Re, the global reinsurance business of the privately held independent insurance broker, announced that Kazimierz (Kaz) Layton will join its Specialty Division later this year.

Layton has been in the political risk and credit insurance broking space for over 15 years, most recently as an executive director at Willis. He started his career in Aon’s Crisis Management Team followed by time at JLT.

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RMS, the Newark, Calif.-based catastrophe risk modeling and solutions company, has appointed Jason Futers as its new managing director responsible for leading RMS’ UK insurance business.

Futers brings vast experience in creating and managing successful multi-disciplinary teams within start-ups and mature businesses. He has previously held roles in client success, technology, sales and product management for companies in the UK, Europe, U.S., and Asia.

From 2017, Futers was the CEO and co-founder of Insurdata, a global exposure data platform. Prior to this, he was the founder of Huupe.com, a personal and professional development platform, and also non-executive director of AgRisk, formerly the Asia Risk Center. Between 2002 and 2015, Futers built his career at RMS, where he was CEO and board member of RMS Japan, regional head of Sales for Europe and Asia, and head of Emerging Risk Innovation.

Mike Steel, global head of Business Development, RMS, said: “Jason has been continually at the forefront of advanced analytics and in his new role at RMS he will be in a position to champion delivering analytics, data, and technology to the insurance and reinsurance markets in the UK. We are all delighted to welcome him back to RMS at such an exciting time.”

Topics Willis Towers Watson