Capsicum Re reveals key hires from Aon Benfield and Price Forbes

Specialist reinsurance broker Capsicum Re has made three key hires for its property and specialty division, which operates across the areas of retrocession & specialty, (US) property & casualty and cyber, with a focus on non-traditional capital and innovative market solutions for emerging and evolving risks areas.

Neil Bramley has joined as a specialty account executive bringing two decades of industry experience and strong expertise in data solutions and catastrophe modelling analytics, having previously worked for Price Forbes. Based within the Specialty area of the business, Bramley will have a particular focus on capital efficiency and property catastrophe-related products, working closely with Capsicum Re’s analytics team to further build out its modelling capabilities.

Tom Regan has joined the London-based team as US casualty account executive from Prospect Brokers. Regan specialises in fronted reinsurance programmes, with expertise in contractors and trucking business.

Finally, Tom Hipperson has joined as a senior account manager with experience in Japanese treaty and facultative reinsurance, having previously worked at Aon Benfield for nearly 20 years, and will support clients across the different business areas.

Matt FitzGerald, managing partner of the property & specialty division, said: “Capsicum Re is a business built on talent and shared culture – for the past six years we’ve focused on attracting the best client advocates in the market and building the foremost broking teams in our chosen areas of specialism.

“Individually, Tom, Neil and Tom bring distinct and diverse expertise into our team, but they share the all-important entrepreneurial spirit, a thirst for continued learning and innovation on behalf of clients, and a determination to put relationships at the heart of everything they do.”