ANV lures Allianz exec
ANV Underwriters, the managing general underwriter (MGU) segment of Dutch insurer ANV, has appointed Christina Lippert as underwriting manager of professional lines, commercial, Europe.
Based in Barcelona, Lippert will be tasked with growing the professional lines portfolio across Europe and will also help to develop ANV underwriters financial lines book in Scandinavia.
She will report to Dennis Gattinger, underwriting director of financial lines at ANV International MGU.
Lippert joins from Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty where she served as practice leader for the Scandinavia and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) region.
Gattinger said: “We are pleased to welcome Christina to our team. She brings a wealth of expertise that will help us to grow in Europe where we see significant opportunities in both the large corporate and small and mediums sized enterprises (SME) spaces as well as in niche sectors.
“Christina’s Scandinavian language skills and contacts in the Scandinavian market will also support our growth ambitions in that region and underlines our strategy to provide clients and brokers with local solutions in all major European languages,” he added.
Debra McClenahan, managing director of ANV's MGU business, said: “We have made very good progress in growing the financial lines business in the last 12 months. With the arrival of Christina we will be able to broaden our product offerings to brokers and clients. We now underwrite risks in nearly all EU countries and have developed our offering in Latin America and Asia.”
Lippert said: “My experience in the financial lines market over the past two decades is highly complementary to the work that ANV already does across Europe and I am excited about bringing my knowledge of the Scandinavian insurance sector to help drive forward ANV’s ambitions in that region.”
