HDI Global refreshes management board with AXA XL, MS Amlin hires

Industrial lines insurer  HDI Global SE has appointed Mukadder Erdönmez as a board member with responsibility for the liability division, and Andreas Luberichs as head of the German business.

After 36 years in the company, Frank Harting has stepped down from the management board on the "best of terms and by mutual agreement" to pursue other opportunities.

Erdönmez comes from AXA XL in Zürich where he is currently head of international casualty Europe, Africa & Latin America. Prior to that, he was responsible for global liability business for small and mid-sized companies at XL Insurance as chief underwriting officer.

Erdönmez will assume the new role from September 1. He will take over responsibility for the liability division from Jens Wohlthat who will concentrate entirely on business in Asia, Africa, Russia and the Middle East.

Luberichs was most recently a board member at MS Amlin SE, where he has been executive president Europe and chief underwriting officer (CUO) for the past seven years. Prior to that, he held various positions including head of European property insurance at Chubb. Luberichs will take over from Harting starting July 1.

Torsten Leue, CEO of Talanx AG and chairman of the supervisory board of HDI Global SE, said: “I would like to take this opportunity to express my great thanks to Jens Wohlthat for his commitment over recent months when he headed the liability line in addition to the international division. At the same time, I am looking forward to working together with Mukadder Erdönmez and I would like to wish him every success in his new function."

He added: “I would like to wish Andreas Luberichs every success and all the best for his new challenge. I am very much looking forward to working together with him. I also take this opportunity to thank Frank Harting for his very successful work and I wish him all the best for the future.”

Harting commented: “After more than 36 years in the company, the time has now come for me to take on another new challenge. I am very grateful for the experiences that I have enjoyed at HDI and Gerling over many years. Equally, I appreciate the respect and the trust that were associated with this time. By the same token, I am looking forward to taking on a new and highly responsible challenge in which I will be able to contribute my expertise in sales and industrial insurance."