The best of the best

Intelligent Insurer recently revealed the winners of its annual North American Awards 2015. We caught up with a few lucky winners at the PCI conference to hand over their awards.

Aon Benfield

Bryon Ehrhart, CEO of Aon Benfield Americas and chairman, Aon Securities, collects the award for:

Best Reinsurance Broker for Client Service (Revenues of more than $1bn)

Hannover Re

Axel Freiboth, managing director and chief underwriting officer (North American Treaty Division), Hannover Re, collects the awards for:

Best Reinsurer for Client Service (GWP of more than $2bn)

Best Reinsurer for Innovation (GWP of more than $2bn)

Best Reinsurer for Expertise and Market Knowledge (GWP of more than $2bn)

TigerRisk Partners

Rod Fox, managing partner of TigerRisk Partners, collects the award for:

Best Reinsurance Broker for Innovation (Revenues of less than $1bn)

Best Reinsurance Broker for Expertise and Market Knowledge (Revenues of less than $1bn)

Guy Carpenter

John Trace, chief operating officer ­ US Operations, Guy Carpenter, collects the awards for:

Best Reinsurance Broker for Innovation (Revenues of more than $1bn)

Best Reinsurance Broker for Expertise and Market Knowledge (Revenues of more than $1bn)

Munich Re

Paul Goodwin, senior vice president, client executive, client management, reinsurance division, and Michael Quigley, senior vice president and head of property underwriting, regional clients, reinsurance division, Munich Reinsurance America, collect the award for:

Best Reinsurer for Ability to Pay Claims (GWP of more than $2bn)

RenaissanceRe

David Marra, chief underwriting officer, RenaissanceRe, collecting the awards for:

Best Reinsurer for Innovation (GWP of less than $2bn)

Best Reinsurer for Expertise and Market Knowledge (GWP of less than $2bn)

Best Reinsurer for Ability to Pay Claims (GWP of less than $2bn)

Arch Re

Scott Stirling, chief underwriting officer; Jerome Halgan, president; Kenneth Vivian, CEO; and Matt Dragonetti, head of Worldwide Property, all from Arch Re, collected the award for:

Best Reinsurer for Client Service (GWP of less than $2bn)

Global award winner

In addition to handing out our North American Awards, we also caught up with one winner of our global awards, the rest of the recipients of which received their awards at the Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous.

Holborn

Weatherly Hammond, vice president and director of marketing; Frank Harrison, president and chief executive and John DiGregaria, executive vice president, COO and CFO, collect the award for:

Best Reinsurance Broker for Expertise and Market Knowledge (Revenues of less than $1bn).