People Moves: Amwins Names Baig, McNatt as Brokerage Presidents; TigerRisk Adds Lockton’s Cheney

Specialty broker Amwins announced the appointments of Sam Baig and Jeff McNatt as presidents of Amwins Brokerage, effective immediately.

James Drinkwater, who has served as president of the brokerage division since 2008 and was also named president of Amwins Group in 2018, will directly focus on his roles as president of Amwins and executive chair of Amwins Global Risks.

As presidents, Baig and McNatt will be responsible for the overall brokerage strategy, while overseeing more than 400 specialty broker teams and various risk and industry practice groups across the Amwins platform. Additionally, they will focus on recruiting, training and development of the next generation of Amwins brokers, cultivating key market and retail client relationships, and assisting in the formation of exclusive capacity and firm-wide proprietary products.

Prior to his new role, Baig served as executive vice president and leader of the Georgia branches of Amwins Brokerage, where he oversaw operations, thought leadership, talent management and organic growth of the region. Baig joined Colemont in 1996, which later became part of Amwins, and he was responsible for the production and placement of all lines of property and inland marine risks, with a focus on commercial and multi-family real estate, public entities, healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing, distribution and construction.

McNatt previously served as executive vice president and leader of the Florida branches of Amwins Brokerage. He joined Amwins in 2007 as a property broker, opening an Amwins office in Birmingham, Alabama. In 2011, he relocated to Florida to open an Amwins office in Satellite Beach, managing a large book of catastrophic and non-catastrophic business.

Based in Charlotte, N.C., Amwins operates through more than 155 offices globally and handles premium placements in excess of $26 billion annually.

TigerRisk Adds Cheney to North America Team

Stamford, Conn.-based reinsurance advisor TigerRisk Partners announced that Will Cheney has joined the company as partner Cheney and will focus on reinsurance, capital and strategic advisory for the company’s largest property accounts.

Cheney has nearly 20 years of experience as a reinsurance broker with a focus on property risk and has held numerous segment leadership responsibilities throughout his career. He joins from Lockton Re, where he was senior broker and co-leader of the property practice. Prior to that, Cheney held the role of executive vice president at Willis Re for 11 years, where he ran the Boston office and the large account property segment for Willis Re North America. He also helped establish the Seattle office of Willis Re. Cheney began his career at Guy Carpenter San Francisco, where he specialized in Florida-based cedants.

Cheney will be based in Boston and report to TigerRisk’s head of North America, Wade Gulbransen.

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