Aon Benfield poaches Guy Carpenter duo for specialty units

Aon Benfield, the global reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor of Aon, has hired two senior executives from Guy Carpenter to boost its capital advisory and terrorism specialty divisions.

Reporting to Nick Frankland, UK CEO of Aon Benfield, Eric Paire will lead the firm’s newly-formed capital advisory unit. Services offered by the unit will include structured and alternative risk solutions, capital provision, business intelligence, financial modelling, and rating agency expertise, in conjunction with the resources of Aon Inpoint, Aon Securities and Aon’s Investment Solutions for Insurers.

In his previous role, Paire was head of strategic advisory & EMEA global partners since 2007, developing and coordinating Guy Carpenter's initiatives for enterprise risk management and its large global clients. He has also held several other senior positions at Guy Carpenter, AXA Re and SCOR.

Also joining from Guy Carpenter is Emma Karhan, who will assume the role of Aon Benfield’s head of terrorism specialty and reinsurer relationships in London. Reporting to Bob Bisset, CEO of Aon Benfield’s Global ReSpecialty division, Karhan will drive growth in the provision of effective terrorism coverage for clients, specifically in the pool and public entity space. In addition, she will be responsible for enhancing the firm’s relationships with the region’s leading reinsurers as part of Aon Benfield Broking Strategies, led globally by Jeremy Goodman.

Karhan has more than 17 years of experience in the reinsurance industry, having been most recently managing director within Guy Carpenter’s EMEA practice, where she led its international terrorism placements and was a member of its Nordics business management team. She had previously held other positions at Guy Carpenter within its EMEA property solutions group.

Commenting on the appointments, Frankland said: “Our Capital Advisory unit has been created specifically to advise clients effectively on both their asset and liability strategies, in order to help optimise the use of capital across their operations.

"In addition, we are evolving our terror offering through enhanced modelling tools and coverage development, which will benefit hugely from Emma’s proven expertise and reinsurer relationships in the class.”

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