Liberty Mutual plucks Zurich CUO, lifts 20-year company vet for GRS

Liberty Mutual Insurance has unveiled two significant leadership appointments within Global Risk Solutions (GRS) underwriting, including a senior hire from Zurich, to boost its capabilities and offering in North America.

Brandon Fick joins the company as North America chief underwriting officer (CUO), with Nate Zangerle becoming CUO for global surety. Fick will report to GRS president of underwriting Matthew Moore and GRS president Neeti Bhalla Johnson in her interim dual role as president of GRS North America. Zangerle will report to both Moore and GRS global surety president Tim Mikolajewski.

Fick was most recently CUO for Zurich North America, overseeing underwriting strategy across many primary and specialty lines. He brings strategic leadership and underwriting experience and will take accountability for underwriting performance across GRS North America, which provides commercial, specialty and reinsurance products.

Zangerle has been with  Liberty Mutual for more than 20 years, most recently as global surety chief operating officer, global risks. In that role, he was responsible for managing, planning, underwriting and production for accounts in the US, Canada, Asia Pacific, Europe and Latin America with annual gross written premium in excess of $300 million. He has over 30 years of leadership in the surety industry.

“We continue to add amazing underwriting talent to GRS,” said Moore. “Both Brandon and Nate will help realise our vision of providing holistic solutions to customers’ complex and emerging risks. Their leadership is critical to delivering industry-leading underwriting performance and consistent global product strategies based on a common view of risk.”

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