ACE Confirms Senior Appointments at Its Northern Regional Branches

ACE today announced a number of senior appointments across its Northern regional offices, strengthening considerably its property, casualty and accident and health insurance underwriting and business development capabilities. The seven appointments include five in the Manchester branch and one each in Leeds and Newcastle.

Joining ACE’s Manchester office are Mark Ellison, as Business Development Manager; Paul Steventon as Casualty Underwriting Manager; and Stuart Chamberlain as Senior Casualty Underwriter.

Chris Boden has joined the Leeds branch as Business Development Manager.

Ian McIntire has been appointed Senior Package Underwriter at ACE’s Newcastle branch.

Recent regional appointments, based in Manchester office, include Jeff Hobson as Northern Property and Casualty Manager, where he will be manage and develop property, casualty, technical and environmental business for the Northern region; and Penny Grainge as Northern eCommerce Business Development Manager responsible for the development of the ACE Online platform.

Commenting on the appointments, Ian Fox, Northern Regional Manager, said: "ACE is committed to building and strengthening its already established regional presence. The seniority and expertise of our new appointments sends a strong message to the market that we are continuing to place significant resource behind our local branches and, importantly, empowering them with the authority and autonomy to deliver even the most complex and larger client programmes where required.”

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Mark Ellison spent the past seven years as Broker Development Manager for the North of England at RSA.

Paul Steventon has more than 20 years’ experience in casualty underwriting in the Liverpool, London and Manchester markets. He joins from Tokio Marine where he was Senior Casualty Underwriter and has worked also with Commercial Union, Independent and CNA in regional underwriting roles.

Stuart Chamberlain has been in the insurance industry for 15 years, including ten years underwriting Casualty at DA Constable Syndicate and QBE and the last two years with Liberty as Senior Casualty Underwriter.

Jeff Hobson has more than 20 years’ industry experience working for both insurers and brokers including Chartis, Aon, JLT and, most recently, at Willis as Regional Managing Director for Leeds.

Chris Boden’s move to ACE follows four and a half years at Allianz Insurance in its Leeds commercial development team and latterly as General Commercial Business Developer servicing brokers in the Yorkshire region.

Ian McIntire has more than 16 years’ experience in the insurance industry, working across the North East. Prior to joining ACE, he opened MMA’s Newcastle office, where he was responsible for generating new business, and has also worked for NIG in Newcastle and Glasgow in underwriting and new business development roles.

Penny Grainge has worked in the insurance industry for 20 years and brings specialist E-trade expertise. Before joining ACE she worked for AXA as a Connectivity Account Manager.

About ACE

ACE is well known for its experience and expertise in catering for medium to large clients worldwide. In the UK & Ireland ACE is structured into two core segments:

The Corporate Risk segment provides property, casualty, accident & health and other specialty insurance products. Target clients are broadly defined as those with turnovers of more than £5m and 50 plus staff with conventional insurance programme requirements.

The Major Risks segment provides property, casualty, accident & health and other specialty insurance products. Major Risks clients are broadly defined as companies with a turnover of greater than £500m and employing a full time global risk manager requiring non-conventional insurance programmes.

ACE UK & Ireland’s five regions are:

·Ireland (Dublin and Belfast) · Scotland (Glasgow) · The North (Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle) · Midlands (Birmingham) · London and South East (London, Maidstone, Reading, Watford)

ACE European Group is part of the ACE Group, a global leader in insurance and reinsurance serving a diverse group of clients. Headed by ACE Limited (NYSE:ACE), a component of the S&P 500 stock index, the ACE Group conducts its business on a worldwide basis with operating subsidiaries in more than 50 countries. ACE’s core operating insurance companies – including ACE European Group Limited – hold financial strength ratings of AA- (Very Strong) from Standard & Poor’s and A+ (Superior) from A.M. Best.

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