Platinum Taps Fisher For CFO Post

NU Online News Service, June 25, 3:24 p.m. EDT?Bermuda-based reinsurer Platinum Underwriters Holdings said it has appointed Joseph Fisher from Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Group as the company's new executive vice president and chief financial officer, effective July 6.[@@]

Mr. Fisher will succeed William Robbie, who is expected to retire at the end of November.

For the past nine years, Mr. Fisher has been serving as chief financial officer for the U.S. subsidiary of Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Group plc. Before joining Royal & Sun, he was a partner at Coopers & Lybrand, where he provided audit services to various insurance clients.

Through its subsidiaries?Platinum Underwriters Reinsurance, Platinum Re U.K. and Platinum Underwriters Bermuda?Platinum Underwriters offers property and marine, casualty, and finite risk reinsurance. The company is renewing all of St. Paul Re's existing contracts.

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