People Moves: Aon Recruits WTW’s James as Chief Broking Officer, Commercial Risk UK; Allianz’ Strong to WTW as Head of Environmental; AGCS Promotes Yee for TMT

This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Aon, Willis Towers Watson and Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS).

A summary of these new hires follows here.

Aon Recruits James from WTW as Chief Broking Officer, Commercial Risk UK

Aon plc, a leading global professional services firm, announced it has appointed Angela James as chief broking officer for Commercial Risk in the UK. James will join the business in June 2022 and report to James Baum, head of Commercial Risk, UK.

In this newly created role, which will cover commercial risk in the Global Broking Centre (GBC) and the London and UK Regions, she will work closely with Baum and other UK Commercial Risk leaders to continue to build out its broking strategy, and that of the global network.

James brings 15 years of insurance experience to Aon with extensive knowledge of direct and facultative risk transfer solutions throughout the global marketplace. She joins from Willis Towers Watson (WTW), where she was most recently Global Property and Casualty (P&C) Hub leader for its centers in London, Bermuda, Singapore, and Shanghai. Having begun her career as a graduate trainee at Aon in 2006, she joined WTW in 2014 and led several P/C broking teams, responsible for designing strategies to deliver growth.

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WTW Hires Allianz’ Strong as Head of Environmental Practice

Willis Towers Watson, a leading global advisory, broking, and solutions company, announced the appointment of Chris Strong as its head of Environmental Practice, based in London

Strong was previously at Allianz Global Corporate & Speciality where he was regional practice leader, responsible for the Environmental Risk business. At Willis Towers Watson, Strong will be responsible for international placement strategies alongside business development and growth of the environmental practice.

“Our environmental practice is a crucial part of our overall Global Market P&C offering. In a world that is increasingly focused on damage to the environment from corporate activity, environmental liability is increasingly becoming a key coverage for our clients, and we are delighted to be strengthening our team with today’s appointment of Chris Strong,” commented Garret Gaughan, head of Global Markets P&C Hub and Facultative.

Willis Towers Watson’s environmental practice provides environmental insurance expertise, specialized market knowledge, technical support and claims advocacy services across a wide range of industry sectors, including chemical manufacturing, construction and waste disposal.

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AGCS Promotes Yee to Global Industry Solution Director for Technology, Media & Telecom

Jody Yee will be appointed Global Industry Solution Director for Technology, Media & Telecom (TMT) at Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS), effective Jan. 1, 2022.

Throughout his 18 years in corporate insurance and alternative risks transfer, he has specialized in developing innovative solutions to drive growth and scale business development.

Yee has worked in both traditional insurance underwriting as well as alternative risk transfer. In his most recent role as managing director and Global Practice Group Leader Cyber in the Alternative Risk Transfer (ART) division of AGCS, his focus was on business development, global captive fronting as well as structured and integrated transactions. He led a team that designed and launched the first insurer technology insurance partnership for Google Cloud customers in March 2021.

Yee joined AGCS in 2007 and has had several leadership roles in finance and underwriting in Munich, London and New York. In his new role, he will be based in London.

Yee’s appointment follows the successful launch of the Financial Services industry practice in 2020 with Paul Schiavone as a Global Industry Solution Director. Both are reporting to Jeremy Sharpe as AGCS Global Head of Distribution.

A similar role will be announced for the Construction industry in due course. AGCS has introduced these new global functions as part of the AGCS transformation program to tailor product development, marketing and distribution to specific industries. Global Industry Solution directors will build special risk expertise for their sectors and help developing bespoke solutions across all AGCS lines of business as well as other Allianz units.

Yee will drive the development of bespoke solutions for clients and brokers in the technology, media and telecom space – be it traditional insurance products, global programs and increasingly also alternative risk transfer and captive support, said Henning Haagen, AGCS board member and chief regions & markets officer for AGCS’s business outside North America.

Topics Commercial Lines Business Insurance Pollution Aon Allianz Willis Towers Watson