Acrisure Re, the (re)insurance division of global insurance broker and fintech platform Acrisure, has appointed Chuck Furlong as senior vice president and broker. In his new role, Furlong will focus on expanding Acrisure Re’s reinsurance capabilities in its North American property and casualty classes of business. He will also work with internal and external stakeholders to ensure quality solutions and service is provided to all its reinsurance clients. Furlong has more than 25 years of reinsurance industry experience and joins Acrisure Re from Guy Carpenter, where he was most recently head of US casualty facultative reinsurance. Prior to that, he was an executive vice president at Jardine Lloyd Thompson Re for 13 years until the company was acquired by Guy Carpenter in 2018. Furlong also spent five years as executive vice president at Willis Re, working mainly with complex casualty and professional liability treaty placements. Commenting on Furlong’s new role, Simon Hedley, CEO of Acrisure Re, says: “The reinsurance market is becoming increasingly complex, requiring brokers to be that much more knowledgeable and experienced when providing solutions and service to their clients. Chuck has a proven track record of offering solutions backed by extensive expertise in the property and casualty sector, growing revenue and meeting production targets in the process. I am excited to welcome him to our team and I look forward to working with him.” Furlong says: “I am so pleased to be joining Acrisure Re. Its analytical and innovative approach to enhancing its products as well as its outstanding reputation as a client-centric intermediary make it the market leader it is today. I look forward to working with the team to build out its property and casualty insurance capabilities even further.”
