Guy Carp hires ACE exec as EMEA managing director

Guy Carpenter, the global risk and reinsurance specialist and a wholly owned subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies, has appointed Matthias Meyenhofer as managing director, Guy Carpenter.

Meyenhofer will lead the firm’s global partners client segment for EMEA and will be responsible for further improving and expanding the range of services provided to its large clients across the region. Based in Zurich, he will report to Eric Paire, head of strategic advisory and global partners.

Meyenhofer joins Guy Carpenter from the insurer ACE, where he was division president of ACE Tempest Re Zurich and responsible for all treaty non-life business underwritten from Zurich. In addition, he was an executive board member of ACE Reinsurance Switzerland. Prior to this, Meyenhofer was vice president and reinsurance treaty underwriter at AXIS Capital, having joined the firm in 2004.

“Matthias’s wide-ranging European experience perfectly matches the scope of our large EMEA-based clients, and coupled with his underwriter’s perspective will help us to develop even greater insight into the extensive range of services they require from a reinsurance broker,” said Paire.

Nick Frankland, chief executive officer of Guy Carpenter’s EMEA operations, added: “We believe we have found in Matthias a combination of skills, expertise and character that can only help to enhance our large client offering.

“His hiring underlines our ongoing commitment to further enhance the calibre of service we offer to this most important client segment.”