MGU Carbon bolsters underwriting team with trio of new hires

Specialist independent managing general underwriter (MGU) Carbon Underwriting has expanded its underwriting team with three new hires from Brit, Coverys and Travelers.

Helen Wheal joins as an underwriter, Theo Cannon as an underwriting services associate, and Shreeya Joshi as an associate underwriter.

Wheal was formerly at Syndicate DTW1991 for more than seven years within the UK and international underwriting team.

Cannon was previously at Brit Insurance, where he spent nearly two years as a delegated underwriting executive, before securing a three-month contract as a property underwriting assistant.

Joshi joins the Carbon team from Travelers Insurance Company, where her job was focussed on open-market construction underwriting.

Stephen Card, CEO of Carbon, said: “The arrival of three talented new team members is a fantastic way to start the new year, and I am delighted to welcome them to the Carbon family. Since Carbon was founded, we have grown from strength to strength, and our growing team benefits from a breadth of knowledge, ideas and expertise.

"Pairing this insight with the advanced analytics and conclusions that can be drawn from our data-driven underwriting tool Graphene is proving to be a powerful and dynamic combination, propelling us forwards to becoming the Lloyd’s Benchmark for data driven quality delegated underwriting.”

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