Rui Huang and Quentin Perrot have been appointed as vice president and senior vice president in the capital markets division of Willis Group Holdings.
Huang will be based in the Hong Kong office, developing the capital markets division in Asia. Perrot will join the London office, in insurance-linked securities (ILS).
Huang has more than eight years of experience in investment banking and insurance, formerly serving as an insurance investment banker at Morgan Stanley, Rothschild, Dresdner Kleinwort and Bank of America.
He most recently worked at Temasek in Singapore, in the financial institutions group.
Commenting on the recruitment of Huang, Michael Guo, head of capital markets in Asia at Willis, said: [His] extensive experience in investment banking and insurance will be a key component in helping us to increase our value proposition to clients in the region.”
Perrot joins the firm from BNP Paribas where he worked on ILS on a global basis. Perrot also worked as a credit analyst at the French bank, with clients in the UK, Netherlands and Scandinavia.
Bill Dubinsky, head of ILS in the capital markets division at Willis, stated: “Perrot will play a key role in helping us to continue developing our global ILS practice where his ILS structuring experience will prove invaluable to Willis.”