Ecclesiastical has this week appointed Mark Matthews, FIRM, AIOSH, ACII, Chartered Insurer into the role of Risk Management Director in its UK general insurance business. In his new role, Mark will report to Ecclesiastical’s Deputy Group Chief Executive and UK Managing Director, Jacinta Whyte.
Mark joins Ecclesiastical from Zurich where he most recently held the role of Head of Risk Engineering. With more than 32 years’ experience in the UK insurance industry, Mark began his career at Commercial Union Assurance and spent the first seven years of his career in the commercial lines underwriting arena. Mark has spent the last 25 years of his career with Zurich in a number of key leadership and risk engineering roles.
His appointment as a member of the UK leadership underlines the vital role that the risk management function plays in the delivery of expertise and service to the company’s customers. It also builds on the company’s surveying and risk control capability, moving this vital function towards providing an enhanced risk management service for customers.
Commenting on Mark’s appointment, Ecclesiastical’s Deputy Group Chief Executive and UK Managing Director Jacinta Whyte said: “Mark’s appointment as a key member of our UK General Insurance leadership team underlines the vital role we believe the risk management function plays in the delivery of expertise and service to our customers. Our in-house risk control and valuation teams are a real differentiator for us in the UK market. Their unrivalled expertise in our specialist sectors is highly sought-after and valued by our customers. I am confident that this combination of an existing strong team and a new Director with extensive knowledge and experience in the area of risk management will greatly benefit our existing and new customers.”
Mark Matthews added: “I am delighted to be heading up a risk function that already has such an excellent reputation for specialist expertise in its chosen market segments and I am very much looking forward to building upon this strong platform to develop the depth and breadth of our technical capability and customer proposition even further.”
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