People on the move in the P&C insurance industry: August 20, 2021

One Inc announced the following appointments:

• Ian Drysdale: chief executive officer
• Christopher Ewing: chief strategy officer

Concord Specialty Risk announced that Ayanna Lewis-Gruss joined as vice president & underwriting counsel, litigation insurance. She previously served at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. Zurich North America appointed Kelly Kinzer as head of construction casualty. She previously served as head of construction property at Zurich. HUB International appointed Evan Stait as cannabis specialty leader. He was part of the team that devise some of the first outdoor crop insurance solutions for cannabis and hemp. Fidelis appointed Victor Riega as head of sustainability. He served at Standard Chartered as senior sustainability manager. Verisk appointed Sunita Holzer as executive vice president and chief human resources officer. She served as executive vice president and CHRO at Computer Sciences Corporation. Ames & Gough appointed Lauren Rhodes Martin as risk management and claims specialist. She served at CAN as A/E platinum accounts director. Ethos announced the following appointments:

• Rob Broesler, Jr.: vice president and general manager
• Nick Fitzer: vice president of sales
• Keri McGhee: head of partnership marketing

Beazley appointed Patricia Kocsondy as head of U.S. cyber & tech. She served at Chubb as senior vice president, errors & omissions and cyber underwriting. Swiss Re announced the following appointments:

• Jason Richards: country president and CEO
• Julie Stephenson: global head of casualty and member

AXA XL announced the following promotions and appointments:

• Lindsay Judd: senior environmental underwriter
• Jay Kao: senior environmental underwriter
• Angela Case: senior environmental underwriter
• Igor Pavlo: senior environmental underwriter
• Jeffrey Anastasio: lead, environmental claims team

BMS Re appointed Scott Christian as executive vice president. He served as senior vice president, catastrophe team lead at Guy Carpenter. A.I.M. Mutual Insurance announced the following appointments:

• Edward Keenan: senior business development specialist
• Marilynn Rokes: senior underwriter

Valent Group announced that Kurt Close was promoted to president. He previously served at Travelers in various insurance leadership roles. Ryan Specialty Group, LLC appointed Kirk Behrens as chief operating & technology officer. He served as chief information officer at Aon plc. Capitol Special Risks appointed Amanda Sedliak as president of the specialty lines insurance brokerage firm. She served for American International Group as an underwriting assistant and as a underwriting technician. Related: People on the move in the P&C insurance industry: August 13, 2021