Admiral boosts board with White Mountains exec

Insurer Admiral has strengthened its board with the appointment of Manning Rountree as a non-executive director. He will also join the risk committee.

Rountree currently serves as a senior executive at Bermuda-based White Mountains Insurance Group, where he oversees transactions, mergers and acquisitions and new business development.

Until recently, he also served as president of White Mountains Advisors, the company's in-house asset management operation.

Alastair Lyons, Admiral group chairman, said: "Now that Admiral has both developing auto insurance and price comparison businesses in the US I am delighted that someone of Manning's experience in the US insurance sector has agreed to join our group board. We already much value his input as a member of the board of compare.com, our US price comparison business in which White Mountains has an investment."