Acrisure Re woos GuyCarp/JLT doyen to expand North American P&C

Acrisure Re, the re/insurance division of global insurance broker and fintech platform  Acrisure, has lured an industry veteran from Guy Carpenter to be its senior vice president and broker.

Chuck Furlong (pictured) will focus on expanding  Acrisure Re’s reinsurance capabilities in its North American property & casualty classes of business. He will work with internal and external stakeholders to ensure quality solutions and service is provided to all reinsurance clients.

With more than 25 years of industry experience, Furlong joins  Acrisure Re from Guy Carpenter, where he was most recently head of US casualty facultative reinsurance. Prior to this, he was an executive vice president at JLT Re for 13 years until the company was acquired by Guy Carpenter in 2018. Furlong also spent five years as executive vice president at Willis Re, working mainly with complex casualty and professional liability treaty placements.

Simon Hedley, CEO of  Acrisure Re, said: “The reinsurance market is becoming increasingly complex, requiring brokers to be that much more knowledgeable and experienced when providing solutions and service to their clients. Chuck has a proven track record of offering solutions backed by extensive expertise in the property and casualty sector, growing revenue and meeting production targets in the process. I am excited to welcome him to our team and I look forward to working with him.”

Furlong said: “I am so pleased to be joining  Acrisure Re. Its analytical and innovative approach to enhancing its products as well as its outstanding reputation as a client-centric intermediary make it the market leader it is today. I look forward to working with the team to build out its P&C capabilities even further.”

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