SLE Group appoints CUO

SLE Group, a Lloyd’s cover holder based in Australia, has promoted Dr Tony Carter to chief underwriting officer.

Carter has been employed by SLE Group as a risk analyst and statistician since 2009 and was previously a consultant to the group for six years.

He will now be responsible for compliance; production pipelines; risk selection, policy conditions and premium pricing; education; and reporting.

“Tony has built a wealth of knowledge and experience in his time with SLE Group and we recognise that by promoting him into a new role that embodies his overarching function of liaising with clients and brokers, and our security providers in Australia and internationally,” said Brad French, managing director of SLE Group.

“Tony has a unique blend of academic and analytical skills, which is vital to this new role. All underwriters across the group will report to him, enabling him to analyse short and long-tail portfolios to ensure sustainable underwriting profits; understand and manage broker relationships; improve internal and external reporting standards; and enable underwriters to determine their risk appetites by identifying emerging trends and monitoring identified losses in sub-groups of risk.”

Sydney-based SLE Group includes three underwriting agencies, SLE Worldwide Australia, Mobius Underwriting Australasia and Pacific Underwriting.