Winners and highly commended announced for Cyber Insurance Awards Europe 2026

Over 500 cyber professionals gather to celebrate excellence and hear the winners and highly commended announced for Cyber Insurance Awards Europe 2026

At a glittering Awards Ceremony held last night at The Brewery in London hosted by the talented comedian, Dominic Holland, the winners and highly commended entrants for Intelligent Insurer’s Cyber Insurance Awards Europe 2026 were revealed.

The event brought together over five hundred cyber insurance professionals from across the UK and Europe. Congratulations to all the winners and highly commended recipients who have demonstrated exceptional innovation and excellence in cyber insurance.

The Award Sponsors included Aon, AXA XL, BRIT Insurance, Canopius, Checkpoint, Crowdstrike, cysmo, Fortinet, Kennedys, LevelBlue, Marsh, Orvia Underwriting, QBE and Tokio Marine Kiln. We are very grateful for their support.

There were 17 company categories and 8 individual categories featuring new categories for 2026 including Cyber Partnership of the Year, Cyber Re/insurance Product of the Year, Cyber Risk-Modelling Technology Provider of the Year, Cyber Underwriter of the Year and Cyber Technical Specialist of the Year.

“It was fantastic to see over five hundred cyber insurance professionals gather for an evening of networking and celebration. This is a truly innovative sector and the judges had some incredibly hard decisions to make. We were thrilled to be able to present the winners and highly commended with their trophies and recognise their hard work and contributions to the industry. Congratulations to all the winners, and thank you to our sponsors, judges, and nominees for contributing to making this event a tremendous success!,” said Aditi Mathur, Editor, Intelligent Insurer.

During the course of a few weeks at the end of 2025, the independent panel of expert judges read the entries and using a process of scoring and meetings, selected the winners for each category. Each of the judges had been carefully selected for their knowledge and expertise and only judged the categories in which they have no conflict of interest.

The expert independent judging panel can be viewed here.

Company categories

1. Cyber Claims Team of the Year

Winner: Canopius

Judges Comment: “Canopius’ cyber claims team has reduced admin time to under two hours and issue coverage positions within five days. Their empathetic model provides interim payouts and has directly paid ransom for a UK charity, averting data exposure. The team demonstrates a positive end-to-end claims system, is multi-skilled across disciplines, and shows evidence of genuine empathy.”

Highly Commended: Allianz

Judges Comment: “Allianz’s Cyber Claims Center of Excellence transformed fragmented regional practices into a unified, globally connected network of over 100 specialists, delivering rapid, expert responses and transparent communication. Their data-driven tools, Academy training, and cross-functional collaboration achieved a high internal satisfaction rating, demonstrating efficiency, accuracy, and client empathy. They excel in cross-regional and cross-discipline activities, developing repeatable processes and earning plaudits from industry and claimants.”

2. Cyber Insurance Awareness Initiative of the Year

Winner: CFC

Judges Comment: "CFC ticks all the boxes necessary to show the importance of cyber insurance and educate brokers and consequently the potential buyers. The individual CFC initiatives have a clear focus and complement each other optimally. The reach of the campaigns is impressive, and positive to see the engagement beyond just in cities."

Highly Commended: Cibervoces Podcast & CyberSpecs Training Hub by Andrea García

Judges Comment: “Such a pivotal focus on bridging the gap between siloed understandings across geographies, underserved communities and the broadest and largest range of possible audiences. It communicates cyber risks and threats in an easily understandable and authentic way. This approach is helpful to reduce the existing education gap.”

3. Cyber Insurance Broker of the Year

Winner: Howden

Judges Comment: “Howden delivers an innovative, accessible and globally scaled cyber proposition, using platforms like Cyber+ and Safe+ to simplify and democratise cyber insurance for SMEs through to major multinationals. Their deep technical expertise, rapid response to emerging threats and strong alignment between cyber maturity and insurance strategy position them as a highly agile, influential and client-centric market leader. Exceptional growth, standout thought leadership and a proven track record of creating tailored solutions across regions.”

Highly Commended: Aon

Judges Comment: “Aon combines market-leading analytical strength with advanced cyber-quantification tools, deep multinational expertise and an integrated advisory model that consistently delivers strong results for clients across all segments. Their client-first approach has driven exceptional global growth, showcased by landmark placements, innovative platforms such as CyQu, and a clear ability to tailor solutions. Overall, Aon’s technical sophistication, global capability and proven impact make for an outstanding submission, fully meriting a Highly Commended recognition.”

4. Cyber Insurance Carrier of the Year

Winner: Generali Global Corporate & Commercial

Judges Comment: “Generali is a market leader in cyber insurance in Europe. They demonstrate a strong client-centric approach and have supported clients effectively through the rapidly evolving legal landscape across the continent. They have been highly active in developing advanced analytical capabilities and have been among the frontrunners in Europe in affirming cyber coverage across other insurance classes. Generali also works closely with partners to create greater awareness and resilience, including in relation to AI and physical threats.”

Highly Commended: CFC

Judges Comment: “CFC has been very strong in promoting SME cyber coverage and has grown considerably over the last few years.They offer very innovative coverage and risk engineering for SME risks demonstrating true, client-led innovation for the segment most underserved and at risk. Positioning service ahead of insurance shows the value of the product and embeds a size-appropriate cyber security maturity journey into the organisation, with guidance from the experts. They have a strong remit in the US and UK and are now also expanding into Europe. Impressive 2025-specific innovations, especially the proactive attack prevention and BI claims payments, and outcomes.”

5. Cyber Insurance Incident Response Provider of the Year

Winner: Coalition Incident Response (CIR UK)

Judges Comment: “Coalition’s Incident Response (CIR) team show strong internal collaboration, rapid client communication, and a zero‑excess policy which earns high praise from claims, broker, and client stakeholders. Evidence of effective IR system as well as a focus on SMEs.”

Highly Commended: Mullen Coughlin

Judges Comment: “High marks for rapid scaling, insurer‑process integration, measurable financial recoveries, and strong industry testimonials. Novel approach, aligning incident response to insurance/legal process - whilst maintaining cross-discipline/tech response capability. Europe-US perspective.”

6. Cyber Insurance Risk-Modelling Technology Provider of the Year

Winner: Moody's

Judges Comment: “Moody’s Cyber Risk Model quantifies cyber catastrophe and systemic risk to aid insurers with underwriting, providing a richer, layered view of portfolio exposure through coverage, placement, and portfolio management workflows. They have extended their model to include non-malicious cyber catastrophes, particularly cloud outage, a milestone that treats non-malicious events in a similar way to Secondary Perils and delivers a more complete view of the risk landscape. Moody’s pursues an open learning approach and enables a more comprehensive, ERM-aligned reflection of cyber risk for insurers and insureds.”

Highly Commended: Axio

Judges Comment: “Axio has produced a solution which is helpful to insurers, brokers, and insured alike. They are tackling a known challenge within the cyber risk landscape—cyber physical and BI—to try and address a clear client need for more coverage. Its application is relevant across cyber risk quantification, improving underwriting and pricing, and provides information to enable the development of risk mitigation strategies.This has been demonstrated in key stats and testimonials provided, and the solution appears widely and highly regarded by users. The submission has tackled a clear insurance gap, looking for opportunities for accretive business. Axio can be recognised as a visionary, established provider of a risk-modelling technology that is acknowledged by the insurance industry. The company has put much effort into its application; its service has a clear focus on quantification, is specialized on CZ, and aims to decrease data collection cycles.”

7. Cyber Insurance Technology Provider of the Year

Winner: CyberCu

Judges Comment: CyberCube delivers an end-to-end ecosystem of cyber insurance technology, applicable to risk selection, pricing, accumulation, and reinsurance. Their use of various technologies, including APIs and AI, in next generation of products is evidence of continued product evolution. Their Single Point of Failure (SPoF) analytics reveal systemic dependencies within portfolios, demonstrating impressive market penetration.They have industry wide exposure on helping insureds understand their risks, write business, and protect their bottom line.”

Highly Commended: Safe Security

Judges Comment: “SAFE has continued to perfect its offering, and the utilization of its services translates to tangible benefit to clients, including premium reductions. Their products and services are recognized not just by the cyber industry but by insureds alike, and their phenomenal growth in the past few years speaks to their effectiveness. The solution can be used either as a standalone service provider or as an inside-out solution linked to cyber insurance premium.”

8. Cyber Insurtech Scale-up of the Year

Winner: CyberCube

Judges Comment: “CyberCube is already a “power force” in the cyber risk accumulation modelling world. Good examples of market support are evident, introducing innovation across various pinch points to create positive outcomes, speaking to cyber security, data science and insurance concerns.Their scale up through this latest round of investment will allow them to grow their business and expand into new areas. Their focus on AI and its impact on the cyber industry, and the probabilistic models are of high quality.The SpoF-Intelligence introduction into their offering is a very important step to better understand the consequences of such an attack to a portfolio.”

Highly Commended: DynaRisk

Judges Comment: “DynaRisk is offering good support as a value add for insurance products. There is excellent SME support with trustworthy resilience building services, and the product is helping to drive cyber take up among insureds. DynaRisk is offering solutions for both the private and commercial segments, as well as the different distribution channels. DynaRisk is continuously improving their product features and growing in new territories.”

9. Cyber Law Firm of the Year

Winner: CMS

Judges Comment: “CMS combines deep crisis-management expertise with truly multinational execution, providing 24/7/365 support in 70+ jurisdictions and acting as breach coach for major global insurers such as Chubb, AIG, and Markel. Their work is deeply European, handling multi-country regulatory reporting, cross-border investigations, and complex incidents across 30+ nations, while leveraging AI-driven tooling, bespoke workflows, and automation for cost-efficient, high-volume EMEA cyber portfolios. CMS demonstrates leadership within the European legal-insurance ecosystem, bridging traditional London Market excellence with innovative delivery models and continental operational capability, making them a modern, connected European cyber-response engine.”

Highly Commended: Clyde & Co

Judges Comment: “Clyde & Co offers one of the world’s largest cyber practices, with thousands of cyber incidents handled and a strong global reputation. Their Clyde One platform and regulatory tools (Compass, Wave Portal, Mynah) demonstrate operational excellence and technological maturity. The data mining tool Mynah supports consistency in impacted data review in a cost-effective manner.”

Special Commendation for Excellence and Innovation in Legal Services: CyXcel

Judges Comment: “CyXcel brings a sophisticated, policy-shaping capability with strong European relevance. Their Global Legal Service (GLS) provides cross-border support in 60+ jurisdictions, solving one of the biggest challenges for European cyber insurers: the fragmentation of legal responses. Their leadership in UK ransomware legislative discussions (including RUSI panels) and involvement in the creation of the Cyber Monitoring Centre show systemic influence, aligning legal practice with the realities of geopolitics, AI regulation and operational resilience.”

10. Cyber MGA of the Year

Winner: Resilience

Judges Comment: “Resilience has been very successful in building mitigation and prevention technologies, offering their clients valuable simulation tools and real-time monitoring. By reducing ransomware payments and improving underwriting accuracy through live intelligence, they have offered a USA-style product to Europe.”

Highly Commended: Orvia Underwriting

Judges Comment: “Orvia Underwriting are consistent and collaborative underwriters, who are growing despite a difficult market. They have launched new products and redefined existing solutions. They are European focused and have good testimonials from respected companies.”

11. Cyber Partnership of the Year

Winner: Google Risk Protection Program (RPP) - Featuring Beazley, Chubb and Munich Re

Judges Comment: “This first-of-its-kind partnership between a cloud computing provider and major insurers, tying together technology providers, consumers, and insurance capital. It removes the opacity around cyber resilience in third-party cloud environments, providing near real-time transparency to enable meaningful underwriting and incentivise better security practices. A well-executed submission, with strong testimonials, practical examples, and significant innovation, enterprise collaboration, and enhanced resilience outcomes.”

Highly Commended: Howden SAFE+ program - Featuring SAFE Security, Howden, Chubb, Mosaic, and Liberty Specialty

Judges Comment: “The European focus received strong points, supported by testimonials from market leaders, for streamlining the underwriting process and delivering a digitally transacted solution that makes cyber insurance more accessible for mid-market firms. This powerful and pragmatic approach addresses the often slow pace of underwriting risk assessment, ensuring broader coverages without compromising due diligence by leveraging SAFE’s cyber security posture insights and creating an important template for the future. Collaborative efforts and the innovative inside-out risk assessment model for large enterprises, replacing outdated questionnaires with real-time telemetry, improve underwriting efficiency, incentivize strong cyber hygiene, and shape the future of cyber placement.”

12. Cyber Re/insurance Product of the Year

Winner: AXA XL - CyberRiskConnect

Judges Comment: “AXA XL's CyberRiskConnect product is addressing an emerging risk in the market, where others have shied away. It is truly new and innovative, and will likely evolve with AI risk vectors.”

Highly Commended: Howden Cyber - Cyber+

Judges Comment: “Good geographical spread and the delivery of cyber protection in countries that are underserved by large global carriers. The clear and streamlined process means companies can cover all their entities globally, quickly and easily, with one set of wording.”

13. Cyber Reinsurance Broker of the Year

Winner: Aon

Judges Comment: “Aon’s London Cyber Reinsurance Practice dominated the market in 2025, managing the largest global relationships and earning strong testimonials from market leaders and peers who consistently praise its analytical rigor, collaborative spirit, rapid execution and extremely high service levels. Its breakthrough “Surge” stop-loss product provides clarity to end clients on event definitions and stands out as a unique differentiator among nominees, while enhanced exposure schemas, prolific research, and the organisation of two global industry summits demonstrate innovation, thought leadership and a clear commitment to collaboration. Aon has increased its footprint in Europe and developed new reinsurance products that have gained strong market interest, sharing high-quality information and valuable analytical insights with cedents and cyber markets, positioning the firm firmly at the front of the pack with innovations that promise lasting impact on cyber-reinsurance capacity and best practice.”

Highly Commended: Gallagher Re

Judges Comment: “Gallagher Re’s Cyber team has received very strong testimonials and consistently stands out as a firm contender in this category, supporting market growth through threat-intelligence webinars, whitepapers and education, while helping clients manage accumulation risk and build understanding, particularly for first-time cyber insurance buyers. They tackled the fragmented global market by launching region-focused conferences in Baden-Baden and APAC, creating realistic disaster-scenario frameworks that opened new capacity in under-penetrated territories, and developing complex analytical frameworks and new products and structures, including cyber cat bonds, in cooperation with leading vendors and reinsurers, with a strong focus on European expansion. Their multi-disciplinary centre of excellence delivers bespoke wording, ILS structures and data-driven model adjustments, complemented by exemplary client service, a strong output of reports and insights, and collaborative, analytics-heavy initiatives that address supply-demand imbalances and support sustainable, globally balanced cyber-reinsurance growth.”

14. Cyber Reinsurer of the Year

Winner: Liberty Mutual

Judges Comment: “Multilingual capabilities and a strong commitment to overcoming barriers to cedent participation are clear strengths, with very good testimonials, highlighting their innovative, thought-leader approach and international expansion. Surge Aggregate XOL addresses key concerns by providing catastrophe protection without requiring an event definition, enabling insurers to design structures better aligned to their needs, while their proportional and non-proportional cyber treaty offerings meet the requirements of many primary insurers. They consistently deliver practical, innovative, and pragmatic market solutions, including structures such as Surge XOL, to tackle immediate industry challenges.”

Highly Commended: Munich Re

Judges Comment: “Google Cloud Protection and HSB launches this year work in their favour, complementing a solid reputation for strategic support, innovation, and a strong SME product wrapper, with Munich Re undoubtedly a powerhouse in the cyber reinsurance space due to significant investment and an impressive, committed team. Their continued position as the #1 address for cyber topics and solutions is reinforced by dedicated, accessible teams that provide constructive, supportive collaboration, while their efforts to increase cyber insurance penetration—particularly among SMEs—are commendable. Backed by substantial financial resources, Munich Re is able to invest heavily in this still developing and increasingly important market, establishing themselves clearly as a leading cyber reinsurance provider.”

15. Cyber Security Consulting Services Provider of the Year

Winner: Booz Allen

Judges Comment: “Booz Allen transfers defence-sector sophistication into the European commercial cyber-insurance landscape through adversary-driven simulations, AI-enhanced red teaming, OT threat modelling, and upstream risk intelligence, delivering the highest technical sophistication with defence-grade adversarial capabilities applied to the EU private sector. While their focus is stronger on large enterprises, national infrastructure, and systemic risk rather than SME cyber programmes, their client work protecting healthcare production, global manufacturing, financial infrastructure, and energy assets, combined with strong submissions and attachments, earns a high overall score.”

Highly Commended: S-RM

Judges Comment: “S-RM delivers one of the most complete, transformation-aligned consulting propositions in the category through its four-pillar model integrating customer-centricity, threat intelligence, proactive uplift programmes, and insurer-aligned service design, with a clear focus on measurable risk reduction and scalable European delivery supported by multilingual capability. Their strongest differentiator is deep alignment with evolving insurer expectations, using proactive maturity uplift, digitalised playbooks, intelligence briefings, automated preparedness frameworks, and insurer-partner packages covering onboarding, tabletop drills, 24/7 multilingual support, and MDR to reduce claims frequency and severity while improving underwriting visibility. S-RM’s large-scale incident-response practice and risk-resilience services give it a distinct edge in protecting policyholders and underwriters, with a strong submission clearly addressing risk consultation, resilience, and the wider industry impact of their initiatives.”

16. Cyber Security Solution Provider of the Year

Winner: cysmo®

Judges Comment: “Their German-engineered, pure-play solution excels by enhancing underwriting discipline, portfolio visibility and pre-bind risk selection, while remaining affordable and available both B2B and B2C, delivering exactly what the category seeks: a high-precision, insurer-ready cybersecurity solution with measurable impact on risk quality and underwriting accuracy. cysmo® eliminates false positives and provides real-time, multilingual, insurer-focused risk reports that are understandable to non-technical audiences, streamlining due diligence, boosting coverage confidence and earning strong testimonials across a solid European client base.”

Joint Highly Commended: Cytactic

Judges Comment: “Cytactic represents one of the most complete and forward-thinking cybersecurity solutions in the category, addressing a major market weakness—operational readiness during cyber crises—while integrating seamlessly into insurer and broker ecosystems; its European footprint is clearly evidenced, its innovation is distinctive, and its submission was the most comprehensive. Cytactic’s AI-driven platform unifies structured onboarding and preparedness, real-time crisis orchestration, and insurer-approved playbooks, transforming fragmented insurance policies into an active resilience framework by ensuring clients understand their coverage, internal response structure, and the steps to follow during an incident, replacing passive policies with active readiness programmes. The platform further delivers immediate access to a pre-approved network of crisis experts, dynamic digital playbooks that adapt as incidents unfold, and a secure out-of-band command environment for communication and document management, ensuring effective coordination and response even when internal systems are compromised.”

Joint Highly Commended: CYFOR

Judges Comment: “CYFOR Secure’s global SOC expansion, AI‑driven analytics, and end‑to-end incident-response services deliver real-time protection for multinational enterprises, while sector-specific compliance frameworks and a proprietary Cyber Audit Portal translate technical controls into measurable risk reductions, stronger cyber-insurance positions, and demonstrably raise client resilience and industry standards. Leveraging AI-driven analytics and expert analysts, the SOC now provides continuous global coverage, enabling real-time detection and response to advanced persistent threats across jurisdictions and time zones, while comprehensive incident response and digital forensics rapidly contain breaches, minimise downtime, and inform long-term resilience strategies. CYFOR Secure empowers clients to embed cyber resilience at every organisational level, track risks, benchmark performance, and strengthen insurance applications all in one centralised platform.”

17. Cyber Underwriting Team of the Year

Winner: Tokio Marine HCC International Cyber Team

Judges Comment: “Very impressive submission and testimonials. TMHCC is an established leader in the market, servicing all areas from SME to large corporations, providing good market education and trends data. Its strategy of building a diverse team with a high degree of subject matter expertise seems to pay off, supported by an in-house Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) tool that continuously monitors the global threat landscape and proactively alerts the team, brokers, and clients to relevant vulnerabilities. Another highlight is the Cyber Young Broker Academy and the embedding of claims into the process, which serves as a positive differentiator.”

Highly Commended:Trium Cyber

Judges Comment: “Incredibly well-positioned and thoughtfully prepared submission. Trium has had an amazing two years building this new Lloyd’s syndicate from scratch with bold moves and innovative product offerings. Very good submission, with impressive growth. Strong claims solution. The HITrust partnership is excellent for risk management.”

Individual categories

18. Cyber Insurance Lawyer of the Year

Winner: Arran Roberts, Kennedys

Judges Comment: “Arran stood out due to her all round capability on advisory and handling incidents - she playbooks true leadership in profile breaches - and for her strong testimonials which referenced solid working examples. Reliability as a lawyer is massive and she is described as empathetic when joining breach situation.”

Joint Highly Commended: Jesus Iglesias, Kennedys

Judges Comment: “Jesus has handled a number of high breach profiles in the Spanish market. He clearly has a strong reputation and his submission reads well and is backed up with good client testimonials.”

Joint Highly Commended: Cameron Carr, Mullen Coughlin UK

Judges Comment: “Cameron is experienced and also seems to be one of the only ones trying to influence legislation in UK and advocate for victims. Over the last 5 years he has developed into a thought leader and strong leader in his team. He has worked hard to help build Mullen Coughlin to what it is today.”

19. Cyber Insurance Mentor of the Year

Winner: Andrea Garcia Beltran, Nirvana

Judges Comment: “Andrea consistently develops talent across underwriting, claims and security. Her mentorship accelerates careers, raises technical standards, and directly improves cyber insurance outcomes. Through tireless guidance, thought leadership and integrity, Andrea leaves the sector stronger, more resilient and better prepared for tomorrow’s threats.”

Highly Commended: Tom Spurgeon, Liberty Mutual Reinsurance

Judges Comment: “Tom has built a robust, multi‑regional mentorship ecosystem at Liberty Mutual Reinsurance, delivering one‑on‑one coaching, peer‑review sessions and practical workshops that close critical cyber‑reinsurance skill gaps. He links junior underwriters with senior experts across the US, London, Bermuda and Singapore, accelerating onboarding and boosting policy‑assessment accuracy.”

20. Cyber Legend

Winner: Luke Ford-Kelcey, Howden Re

Judges Comment: “Luke Foord‑Kelcey has shaped the modern architecture of the cyber‑reinsurance market, delivering the largest cyber‑cat programme, the first cyber ILS line, and pioneering retrocessions, with 20 years of experience in law, underwriting, and broking, achieving industry-first products and building substantial market databases and analytical capabilities at two major broking houses. His CyberNova analytics platform, global summits, and mentorship of senior talent have amplified capacity, insight, and collaboration, earning unanimous peer endorsement, reshaping industry resilience, and establishing confidence within the ART community to embrace digital risk—particularly in the Cyber class of business. A very strong submission in support of a very strong candidate, Luke Foord‑Kelcey will, in the years to come, be acknowledged as a cornerstone in the evolution of capital provisioning for digital risk transfer, helping to underpin a mature and creative market for the future, and is without doubt a true giant in our community.”

Highly Commended: Shannan Fort, Marsh

Judges Comment: “Shannan Fort has propelled Marsh’s global cyber agenda, launching mid‑market facilities delivering capacity alongside integrated risk‑mitigation services. With long-standing expertise in cyber broking and a strong public profile, she has driven initiatives and innovation across the broking space.Her data-driven product design, prolific industry speaking, and relentless championing of cultural inclusion have reshaped market standards, earning widespread peer acclaim and positioning her as a true Cyber Legend. Well known and respected in the market, people listen when she speaks, read what she writes, and reflect when she challenges the status quo.Tremendously effective in leading the innovation of primary cyber insurance products, Shannan’s contributions extend beyond business: her commitment and thoughtful advocacy for inclusion demonstrate a completeness of human vision in an often sterile market.”

21. Cyber Technical Specialist

Winner: Jay Vinda, Mosaic Insurance

Judges Comment: “Jay operates in a uniquely hybrid role as Global CISO and Cyber Risk Engineer, giving him visibility across underwriting, claims, incident response, threat intelligence, risk engineering and portfolio systemic risk analysis, supported by a background in cyber security, operations and risk management and involvement across the insurance chain, where he facilitates collaboration across stakeholders through a technical and business-centric approach. His achievements include deploying a GenAI-enabled automated risk assessment model used by 80 percent of global underwriters; mapping threat actor TTPs into dynamic risk-scoring tools enhancing IR panel evaluation; producing strategic threat intelligence; designing RDSs; delivering training and thought leadership on emerging risks such as GenAI security; and building the CITADEL industry consortium with the FAIR Institute and MITRE. A great advocate of cyber risk and cyber insurance, Jay champions cyber resilience and insurers as partner organisations, and is known and admired across the Technical CISO and Risk and Insurance communities as a powerful technical force for good, driving pragmatic innovation in risk assessment, mitigation and insurance product responses.”

Highly Commended: Jacob Tapper, Aon

Judges Comment: “Jacob’s application demonstrates a high level of technical sophistication, combining rare actuarial expertise with catastrophe modelling, accumulation and systemic risk research, cyber reinsurance product development, and regulatory scenario development, with work that is market-shaping rather than simply excellent within a single organisation. He is one of very few globally to have developed core modules of the leading cyber catastrophe model (CyberCube), designed the analytical methodology behind the industry’s first Surge Stop Loss product enabling event-based cyber reinsurance, and created Aon’s Cyber Exposure Data Schema, which standardises data collection and directly supports underwriting, exposure management, and reinsurance across the full value chain. Across all entries, his technical contribution is the most globally relevant and structurally transformative, with clear evidence of innovative thinking, deep market interaction, and a profound commitment to advancing the market’s understanding and management of cyber risk at ecosystem level.”

22. Cyber Underwriter of the Year

Winner: Rafael Ortiz Losada, Arch Insurance

Judges Comment: “Rafael delivers one of the most complete and technically robust submissions in the category, with underwriting achievements purely in cyber and directly aligned with the award criteria, supported by strong market evidence. He has driven 45 percent + growth in Arch’s European cyber portfolio while maintaining profitability, built tailored underwriting frameworks for Spain, Iberia, and wider Europe, developed systemic-risk methodologies including cloud/vendor concentration analysis and portfolio stress tests, created pan-EU SME cyber facilities, led cyber prevention services across Europe, and integrated real-time threat intelligence into pricing and selection. His thought leadership is demonstrated through speaking engagements, published analysis, and strong testimonials, reinforcing his technical excellence, underwriting discipline, client understanding, and strategic market impact. The submission highlights his excellence in underwriting dynamic cyber risks, systemic-risk management, and technological adaptability at an international scale, with a clear focus on Europe. Judges note his ability to build client solutions, evolve underwriting responses, provide evidence-based recommendations, and contribute beyond day-to-day operations, making him a highly valuable talent to Arch and the broader European cyber market.”

Highly Commended: Marc Anderson, Mosaic Insurance

Judges Comment: “The write-up demonstrates Marc’s innovation, leadership, and awareness of stakeholder management. He is a proper deal maker, likely with the largest GWP tied to his name, and consistently responds anytime. The development of Mosaic’s Tech offering has been an important step for the company and has been well received by the market. He provided very good recommendations and successfully led and built the TECH E&O product line to profitability, with a worldwide footprint excluding the USA and Canada.”

23. Inspiring Woman in Cyber Insurance - UK

Winner: Sydonie Williams, Beazley

Judges Comment: “Sydonie is a clear industry leader who has proven herself to be both commercial and technical, driving Beazley’s international cyber strategy from London, including innovative risk-transfer solutions such as the cyber catastrophe bond, while developing a strong global client following. Through her D&I work, industry voice, and leadership of Beazley SHE and external mentoring initiatives, she is helping to open the cyber industry to more females and stands as a powerful role model across the UK and global markets.”

Highly Commended: Kelly Butler, Marsh

Judges Comment: “Kelly has a great market presence and depth of knowledge and is often seen as a market expert for primary cyber broking. She stands out as a market-leading broker and thought leader, influencing UK cyber policy through expert testimony to Parliament and driving innovation through expanded capacity solutions. Her leadership of the largest UK cyber broking team, combined with a strong commitment to gender diversity, makes her a clear standout in the market.”

24. Rising Star in Cyber Insurance

Winner: Tim Marshall, Munich Re

Judges Comment: “With a combination of personal career development and deep expertise, Tim has made an outstanding industry contribution and helped shape the market. He has the ability to be part of the conversation and we look forward to seeing him develop.”

Highly Commended: Ana Lawther, Trium Cyber

Judges Comment: “Ana has gone above and beyond in a short amount of time, she has shaped the future in terms of bringing professionals together. She goes beyond her day job and has pulled together young professionals - and the market together - and this is so important in a post-covid world.”

25. Inspiring Woman in Cyber Insurance - Europe & ROW

Winner: Gülsah Dagdelen, Tokio Marine HCC International

Judges Comment: “Gülsah leads Tokio Marine HCC’s international cyber book across EMEA and LATAM, combining technical excellence with strong cultural intelligence. She has made a conscious effort to continually develop her technical knowledge and actively promotes this approach among the people she leads and works with. This “say-it-do-it” leadership style is inspiring, and she holds others accountable to the same standards she sets for herself, doing so in a personable way that creates a safe, challenging, and engaging working environment, strongly supported by her testimonials. She is highly skilled in managing cyber risk internationally and shares her expertise beyond her organisation, contributing to market-wide knowledge sharing. Her advocacy for diversity and mentoring, while balancing family life, sets a powerful example for women in cyber insurance.”

Highly Commended: Michela Moro, Generali GC&C

Judges Comment: “Michela is a brave and ambitious thought leader in the cyber market, combining technical expertise with strong leadership skills. Her innovative and analytical approach to problem solving is enhanced by a diverse background, which allows her to bring insights from other areas into the cyber field in a client-focused way. At Generali, her leadership and cross-functional career path exemplify resilience and innovation, while her advocacy for women through recognised mentorship programs has driven visible change, creating more opportunities for women to lead and inspire in European cyber underwriting. Michela’s dedication to developing other women and promoting diversity continues to reshape the industry.”

Click here to view the full list of winners and highly commended.

Nominations will open in the summer of 2026 for the 2027 edition of the awards which are set to return to London. If you're interested in being a nominee, judge, or sponsor, then please email us.

For further information regarding the awards see - https://iiawards.newton.media/cyberinsuranceeuropeawards2026/en/page/home

or contact: Gina Baillie Senior Researcher & Producer, Intelligent Insurer on gbaillie@intelligentinsurer.com