MGA Rokstone taps Covea for digital CUO

Specialty managing general agent (MGA)  Rokstone, part of the Aventum Group, has tapped Covea to appoint a chief digital underwriting officer.

Gavin Dollings (pictured) had been commercial underwriting director at Covea for the past six years.   Prior to that he spent 10 years at Allianz firstly as head of UK Casualty & Construction and later as its South East Regional Manager.

At Rokstone, Dollings will have strategic and operational oversight of all business distributed through Rokstone’s digital platform, globally. The appointment follows soon after Rokstone announced the appointment of Jo Lambe to digital product development manager.

Tony Lawrence, chief digital distribution officer at Aventum, said: “We’re delighted to welcome Gavin on board.  He is a highly capable and pragmatic chief underwriting officer with extensive experience from some of the biggest and most agile insurers.  He has an impeccable track record of developing and improving the underwriting framework for optimal performance.  Together with the rest of the team and supported by some of the best actuarial tools in the market we are achieving that nirvana in disciplined underwriting in the balance between growth and profit.”

Dollings added: “Aventum is a dynamic, delivery focused business with some exceptional people and it is clearly on a trajectory to the top. I’m really excited to be joining the journey with them to help them achieve their ambitions.  I’m also very much looking forward to working again with a number of individuals that I’ve worked with previously in my career and whom I know and trust.”

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