Ernst & Young (EY) has appointed Andrew Christie as senior manager of the firm’s captive insurance practice. Based in Phoenix, Christie joins the captive insurance services team in EY’s financial services office for the Americas. The team provides tailored solutions to captive insurance and alternative risk financing needs, both in the US and internationally. In his new role, Christie will work closely with EY’s captive insurance tax experts to provide a multi-layered captive product offering. Christie previously served at Aon for more than 12 years, most recently as director. In this role, he led a team of captive accountants and executives to manage the largest captive insurance book in Arizona. Before this, he was a senior consultant specialising in captive feasibility studies and utilisation studies, including insurance programme design, captive domicile and financial projection analysis. Christie began his tenure at Aon as senior account manager, based in the Cayman Islands. Christie is also a director at both the International Center for Captive Insurance Education and the Arizona Captive Insurance Association. Mikhail Raybshteyn, partner at EY Global Financial Services, comments: “A big EY welcome to Andrew Christie, our most recent addition to the growing Americas captive insurance services practice and EY Global Captive Network. We are thrilled to have you onboard!” He adds: “Andrew brings with him a wealth of knowledge in structuring and optimising captive insurance and alternative risk solutions, having both managed and consulted within the captive insurance industry in the US and internationally. Andrew has been a trusted captive insurance advisor to several Fortune 500 companies, and also brings accounting and finance experience.”
