AXA XL has appointed Renaud Guidée as its reinsurance CEO, effective 1 September. Guidée will replace Nancy Bewlay, who has been appointed group chief underwriting officer. In this newly created role, Bewlay will join AXA’s management committee reporting to Frédéric De Courtois, group deputy CEO. Guidée, currently serving as the group’s chief risk officer, will lead AXA XL’s reinsurance business offering solutions that include property, casualty and specialty reinsurance. Guidée has more than 20 years of financial and risk experience. Before his tenure at AXA XL, he was a managing director at Goldman Sachs. Commenting on the change in leadership, Scott Gunter, says: “Over the past year we have worked to reposition our reinsurance portfolio and we are seeing the benefits of this work in our discussions with clients and brokers. I want to take this opportunity to warmly thank Nancy for her leadership of the reinsurance business and congratulate her on her new role at AXA Group.”
