AM Best appoints NEDs to board of EMEA subsidiary

Rating firm AM Best has appointed Christopher Hopton and Laura Santori as independent non-executive directors (NEDs) to the Board of its Europe Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region subsidiary, AM Best Europe Rating Services (AMBERS).

Both Hopton and Santori have extensive experience of the insurance industry.

Hopton is a partner at a London management consulting firm and chairman of a Lloyd’s broking business. He is a qualified lawyer and has more than two decades of working with insurance clients in strategy and consulting in the London market, including Lloyd’s of London.

Santori is a qualified actuary and has worked for a number of international insurance organisations and leading consulting firms, such as Twelve Capital, Standard & Poor’s and Towers Watson.

Santori’s background also includes more than 11 years of experience in credit rating analysis, including senior managerial positions for the Southern European insurance sector and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM).

"The appointment of Mr Hopton and Ms Santori as non-executive directors to the Board of AMBERS is an exciting milestone in our development and a positive reflection of the continuing successful expansion of our business across EMEA,” said Larry Mayewski, president and chairman, AM Best Rating Services, and chairman of AMBERS.