BHSI poaches AIR SVP

Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) has appointed Akshay Gupta as senior vice president and head of catastrophe engineering and analytics.

Gupta joins from AIR Worldwide, where he served as senior vice president and led a practice providing engineering-based, site-specific risk modelling and assessments for complex industrial and commercial facilities and operations.

Sanjay Godhwani, executive vice president, BHSI, said: "As head of our newly established catastrophe engineering and analytics group, Akshay will lead our efforts to integrate state-of-the-art catastrophe science and engineering with the best of the industry's catastrophe modelling to form our view of location-level and large-scale risk − benefitting both our product development and our customers' efforts to better understand and mitigate their risk and reduce loss costs. We are pleased to welcome Akshay, and to add his exceptional expertise to our property team."