ACE appoints casualty manager

ACE Group has appointed Mark Roberts as casualty manager for the UK and Ireland.

The company said the appointment is part of its strategy to invest in building its liability insurance capabilities across the region.

Roberts will be responsible for the financial performance and future development of ACE’s casualty insurance portfolio in the region, which also includes Gibraltar.

With 20 years of casualty underwriting experience, Roberts joins ACE from Chubb where he started in 2004 as London casualty manager before being promoted, first in April 2008 to risk management and multinational underwriting manager for Europe and, again in 2011, to European casualty manager.

He will be reporting to David Robinson, regional president UK and Ireland, with additional product line reporting to Mark Homan, EVP Casualty, ACE Overseas General.

“In returning to ACE, Mark brings with him a valuable mix of casualty technical underwriting experience, strong relationship management skills and broad commercial insight,” said Robinson. “As we continue to focus on meeting and anticipating the needs of our customers within the UK and Ireland, Mark will help us continue to take a disciplined approach to casualty underwriting and enhance our capability to design creative, pragmatic and effective insurance programmes supported by the expertise and experience of our underwriters.”