NU Online News Service, May 22, 9:53 a.m. EDT
Zurich-based ACE Limited has announced that Brian Dowd, chief executive officer, Insurance-North America, has been named to the additional position of vice chairman for ACE Limited and ACE Group Holdings.
In addition to his current responsibilities, which encompass ACE's property and casualty insurance operations in the United States, Canada and Bermuda, the company said Mr. Dowd will now assume corporatewide executive responsibility for the ACE Group's global product underwriting boards and the strategy and purchase of the company's reinsurance programs.
Mr. Dowd joined ACE in 1995 and has held a number of senior management positions with the company, including president and CEO of ACE Westchester, president of ACE Specialty P&C Group, senior vice president of property for ACE Bermuda, and, most recently, chairman and CEO of ACE USA.
