Gareth van den Bergh has been hired as a senior account manager at Willis Towers Watson (WTW), based in the firm’s Cayman office.
Van den Bergh will be reporting to the recently appointed Lesley Thompson, vice president and director of WTW.
He will be responsible for the day-to-day management, providing regulatory guidance and managing key client relationships of a diverse portfolio of captive structures.
Van den Bergh trained and qualified as a chartered accountant while working for Grant Thornton in South Africa. He transferred to Grant Thornton, based in the Cayman Islands in 2014, where he specialised in the audit of captive insurance entities.
In 2016, he moved to Captiva Managers (Cayman), where he was initially appointed as an account manager responsible for a book of captives writing a variety of business.
He was promoted in 2018 to senior account manager and became responsible for leading the insurance management team in Captiva’s Cayman, British Virgin Islands (BVI) and Anguilla offices. He was then appointed to the board of directors of Captiva Managers (BVI) in 2019.
Commenting on Van den Bergh’s appointment, Thompson said: “[Gareth] van den Bergh has a solid foundation of technical skills and qualifications which combine well with his detailed knowledge of the Cayman Islands insurance market and regulatory regime, all of which he brings to the Cayman team of WTW at a very important time.”
