Pool Re has recruited Katy Huang as head of digital transformation, focusing on the company’s technical process optimisation and digital product development and implementation. Huang will lead the design and implementation of the company’s digital strategy, managing both the in house IT team and Pool Re’s outsourced partners. In this newly created role, she will report to Tracey Paul, chief strategy and communications officer at Pool Re. She joins with more than 20 years of experience in management consulting, with a focus on the (re)insurance industry. Since 2013 she has been an independent consultant working with companies such as Hiscox, Charles Taylor Adjusting and Bought By Many. Prior to that, she was the business manager for Beazley’s political risk, stand alone terrorism and contingency group for five years, where she led the digitalisation of the group’s underwriting process and its broker system. Between 2000 and 2008, Huang held roles at Lloyds Banking Group, Moet Hennessy Diageo China and McKinsey & Company. Commenting on Huang’s appointment, Paul says: “Katy Huang will be instrumental in designing our digital strategy and advising on the internal digital change management. Her technical background and experience in the industry will be a great asset to the team and we are very pleased to announce her appointment today.” In addition, in February, Pool Re completed a three-year £2.47 billion retrocession programme with 56 international reinsurers.
