K2 International snares former senior Aon exec as underwriter

K2 International (K2), the specialty insurance and reinsurance underwriting platform, has appointed Ruth Reynolds as an underwriter in its K2 Financial team, reporting to Richard Coello, managing director, K2 Financial.

Reynolds has over 30 years’ experience in financial lines as both a broker and an underwriter. She joins K2 International having previously held a leading position as senior broker at Aon Financial Services’ North American operations. Prior to this, she was an underwriter in the Financial Institutions team at Chubb (ACE prior to its acquisition), and also worked at Sedgwick in its FI team.

Richard Coello, managing director K2 Financial commented: “Ruth is an impressive career financial lines expert who I was lucky to work with at Ace and she will be a tremendous additional resource as we continue to build out K2 Financial. She is well known amongst our broker base and will be invaluable in further strengthening our market relationships. I’m really looking forward to working with her again.”

Ruth Reynolds said: “I am hugely excited by the opportunities that being part of K2 will bring. K2 has an incredible opportunity to lead the market with creative and forward-thinking strategies for the evolving risk landscape our asset management clients face. I am delighted to be joining the K2 Financial team and working alongside such a talented and future facing group of individuals, backed by outstanding underwriting capacity.”

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