Markel snipes senior director, Markel Specialty Programs from QBE

Markel Corporation has appointed a new senior director, Markel Specialty Programs. She will lead triaging and onboarding new programs as well as portfolio management for the existing and newly delegated programs for the Markel Specialty division.

Helen Xu joins from QBE North America where she was vice president, program due diligence and program management. She was responsible for triaging and assessing new program opportunities, managing the due diligence and vetting process, and building analytical models while assuming profit and loss responsibility of newly launched programs. Prior to QBE, Xu was the Westchester Programs Strategy Analysis and Senior Program Manager for Chubb. She has more than 20 years of industry experience.

“We are excited for Helen to lead the continued growth of Markel Specialty Programs. She is a collaborative leader with fluency in program strategy, triaging, onboarding, due diligence, data and analytics, and program portfolio management,” said Jeff Lamb, executive director, Programs and Alliances, Markel Specialty.

“ Markel has been in the program space for more than 40 years,” he added. “With improved market conditions, we have been able to work with a robust pipeline of opportunities and in a position to increase our program implementation. With Helen’s expertise, we look forward to continuing to build our Specialty Programs team and provide unique capabilities.”

Xu will report to Lamb and is based out of Summit, New Jersey.

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