Neeren Chauhan has been named head of Strategy, Innovation & Business Development for Zurich North America.
Chauhan joins Zurich after serving as vice president, Distribution Transformation and Market Share Growth, for Allstate Insurance Co. He has more than two decades of global leadership experience across Asia, Europe, and North America. Chauhan joined KPMG in 2002 and served as a leader in the Operations and Technology Risk practice. In 2008, he joined McKinsey & Co. where he held various positions within the Financial Services practice based out of the Chicago office. He joined Allstate in 2013 and held various senior leadership positions spearheading a variety of digital, strategy, business building, innovation, and change management initiatives.
Chauhan will report to Zurich North America CEO Kristof Terryn. and be based in Schaumburg, Ill.
AGCS Expands North America Executive Management Team
Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) made two appointments to its North America Executive Management Team.
Carol Laufer is the new regional head of Liability, North America, based in New York. She replaces Dieter Hautzer, who is retiring from AGCS following a 30-year career where he has led the North America Liability team since 2009.
Laufer joins AGCS from Zurich North America, where she held the position of U.S. National Accounts/Commercial Insurance, head of Excess Casualty since 2017. Prior to Zurich, she was with ACE USA since 2008, the last three years as executive vice president, Excess Casualty. Laufer also spent 10 years before that in various primary casualty leadership roles with AIG.
Michael Pignataro will be the new North America regional head of Energy & Construction. He takes over this role from Tim Cook, who was responsible for the Energy & Construction line of business since 2017. Cook is ending a four-year assignment at AGCS North America and transitioning his duties to Pignataro through September 30.
Based in New York, Pignataro has been with AGCS since 2018. For the past year, he has been an underwriting manager, overseeing the U.S. Construction team. Prior to that, he was an executive underwriter responsible for major builder’s risk placements in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic U.S. Pignataro specializes in construction property insurance, with experience within the oil, gas, chemical, heavy industrial and power generation industries. Previously, he held construction underwriting roles at AIG, Talbot and XL Catlin.
Pignataro and Laufer will both report directly to Bill Scaldaferri, president and CEO, AGCS North America.
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