Horseshoe Group has appointed Jean-Bernard Crozet as head of its London office and senior vice president of advisory services.
Crozet will lead Horseshoe’s worldwide advisory services, including working with Horseshoe’s fund services on valuation and transparency reporting.
A reinsurance veteran with more than two decades of experience, Crozet was previously the London head of underwriting modeling at MS Amlin.
The addition of Crozet, who founded PwC’s catastrophe risk, insurance-linked securities (ILS) and transfer pricing offerings and helped to lead and deliver a range of products for the London, Bermuda and European markets, will help boost the group’s European ILS offering.
Crozet will take over actuarial and insurance advisory responsibilities from Kathy Garrigan, who will remain working for Horseshoe until September 2018.
Andre Perez, CEO of Horseshoe, said that Crozet’s experience and client relationships will help deepen the group’s talent pool.
Perez said: “Jean-Bernard Crozet’s leadership and expertise, especially in the property catastrophe space is an excellent fit with our specialty in the ILS space, and I’m delighted that he is joining the Horseshoe Group.”
“Adding a person of Crozet’s calibre and experience as the head of our London office will undoubtedly strengthen our ILS presence in London.”
“Having a talented three-person team in London, and the support of Horseshoe’s global team, will allow us to be closer and more responsive to our London and European clients.”
Crozet added: “I could not be more thrilled to join Horseshoe at this exciting time in the group’s growth trajectory.”
“Horseshoe is uniquely positioned to provide independent ILS related advice and services to leading ILS Funds as well as insurance and reinsurance companies, and I look forward to helping expand our overall presence in Europe.”
