Higginbotham, an independent insurance and financial services firm, has partnered with Mike Knotts, an insurance agency owner and broker in Bossier City, Louisiana

Aon has hired John McElroy to join its Bermuda operations of reinsurance solutions

Thierry Portevin has been promoted as global head of Allianz Risk Consulting, from his current role of global head of property at Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty

EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants has added Traci Marquez to its risk management team

Sapphire Underwriting has appointed Malcolm Cutts-Watson as non-executive chairman and Jeremy Miles as an executive member of the Sapphire Underwriting board

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

Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty has hired Kevin Hegel as the new regional head of client services and multinational regional unit London and Nordics, succeeding Ayleen Frete, who has moved on as global head of market practice management at AGCS

Acrisure Re has appointed Ben Canagaretna as managing director of the London corporate advisory and solutions business

“The stars are aligned for cannabis in captives now”, according to Ross Ellick, equity partner at Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker

Mark Elliott, CEO of Humbolt Re, has been elected as the new chairperson of Guernsey International Insurance Association, succeeding Mike John

Zurich North America Group has hired Sonia Kundi who will join the risk management team as Canada chief risk officer

Captive insurance will play an even more important role with the potential new developments from President Biden’s new administration as the US Government rolls out potential new legislation and focuses in the space, according to Mikhail Raybshteyn