Canopius extends engineering expertise in Asia

Canopius Group, the global specialty re/insurance platform of Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Holdings, has appointed Ching Hong Onn as regional engineering underwriter for its Singapore platform. Hong Onn, who takes up his position with immediate effect, will report to Linus Phoon, chief executive, Canopius Asia.

Hong Onn has 18 years’ specialist underwriting experience, beginning his insurance career as Engineering Underwriter at Munich Re Singapore branch office. He joins Canopius from SART Underwriting, where he served as chief engineering underwriter for the Middle East, Far East and Asia Pacific Region, as well as Asian interests abroad.

“Canopius has developed extensive expertise in the engineering market and has clear ambitions for future development. With over three decades of industry experience in the Asian engineering sector, Hong Onn will play an important role in building our portfolio across the region,” said Phoon.

Simon Challinor, head of construction and engineering, Canopius added: “The extension of the Lloyd’s Construction Consortium to operate on the Lloyd’s Asia platform provides significant opportunities to further Canopius’s and Lloyd’s reputation in this class, and to offer a genuine alternative insurance solution for the region’s largest construction projects. I am looking forward to working with Hong Onn to realise our growth ambitions.”