Willis swoops for Brit, Aon talent in London Market P&C boost

Broker Willis Towers Watson has bolstered its London Market property and casualty arm with senior hires from Brit and Aon.

The company has appointed Tom Rowley as senior vice president North American property. Rowley will be responsible for designing a cost effective and efficient platform to bring middle-market, low-catastrophe exposed, low attrition property business into the London market.

Matt Harvey has been appointed as senior vice president of international property. He will be responsible for developing opportunities in the APAC region, and will be tasked with identifying sustainable property business that can be placed into the London market for the long term as well as finding innovative solutions for hard to place risks.

Rowley is a former senior executive at Brit Insurance with over 15 years’ experience leading a wide range of underwriting classes. Harvey has over 20 years’ experience in international property and was most recently at Aon where he was responsible for the design and placement of international property risks.

Both the executives will sit within WTW's property & casualty CoE, which is responsible for the placement of US, International and UK retail risks into the London and international market.

Willis said that these appointments are designed to deliver strategic market growth harnessing the range of data, analytics and technology to enable the global insurance market to provide solutions to complement local market placements.

“We are delighted to be able to make significant investment in talent to help grow our business. External issues such as Brexit, increased regulation and market volatility means our global clients are facing significant challenges," said Garret Gaughan, head of property & casualty CoE, Willis Towers Watson. "We recognize that continued innovation is necessary across the London market and these two appointments will ensure we can continue to bring depth of expertise and a compelling value proposition for our clients, as well as supporting the London market capability.”

Angela James, head of North American property, property & casualty CoE, said: "We have identified Tom’s unique skillset as the key to developing solutions to enable the London market to write this business, which currently does not make it across the Atlantic."

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