Houston International Insurance Group, Ltd. appointed Thomas N. Schmitt as its chief people and administrative officer. Greenlight Capital Re, Ltd announced the following appointments:

• Simon Burton  - chief executive officer and chief underwriting officer
• Neil Greenspan - chief financial officer
• Faramarz Romer - chief accounting officer and treasurer

Beach & Associates appointed Warren Berkstresser as senior vice president of its U.S. reinsurance division, Beach Re. He previously served at Willis Re as an executive vice president. Lockton Insurance Brokers, LLC announced the following appointments:

• Teena Hostovich - vice-chair of Lockton Pacific
• Greg Barnes – president, Greater Los Angeles

AAdvantage Insurance Group announced the following appointments:

• Sam Fink - personal lines coverage specialist
• Amy Glowacki - commercial lines coverage specialist
• Ana Reyes - commercial lines coverage specialist
• Joe Weaver - on your side® basic farm certification designation

Convex Group Limited announced the following appointments:

• Matt Paskin - CEO of Convex re limited
• Theo Butt - CEO of Convex insurance

CopperPoint Insurance Companies announced that Thomas Pytel, Jr. joined as vice president, chief marketing and corporate communications officer. He served as vice president, marketing & corporate communications at Mutual Insurance Company of Arizona. KMRD Partners appointed Greg Chaples to its team as sales & relationship manager. He served at Philadelphia Insurance Companies as production underwriter. Florida Peninsula Insurance Company promoted Virginia Austin to director of special investigations. She served at Florida Peninsula as claims examiner. The Mahoney Group appointed T. Scott Kennedy as president and chief executive officer of M&O Agencies Inc. He previously served as area president for McGriff in San Diego. Beazley announced the following appointments:

• Elizabeth Cassarino - underwriter
• Jeffrey Carney – underwriter
• Allison Keenan - executive risk underwriter
• Mia Hennessey – underwriter
• Greg Staron - executive risk underwriter
• Melanie Saponara - executive risk claim

IMA, Inc appointed Michael Hennessey as vice president, cannabis national practice leader, reinforcing the broker's leadership position in this specialty line of insurance products. He served in a leadership role at ABD Insurance and Financial Services. RD Global appointed Jason White as director of sales & marketing. He served as chief technologist, hybrid I.T at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies appointed Robert Zak as chairman. He served as president and CEO at Merchants Mutual Insurance Company. Related: People on the move in the P&C insurance industry: September 18, 2020