London, UK; 23rd July 2024: Cytora has announced the expansion of its global advisory board in welcoming insurance industry veteran Laurent Rousseau. The move is designed to support Cytora’s global growth.
CEO of Guy Carpenter EMEA and Global CapitalSolutions (part of Marsh Mclennan), Laurent has had a broad and successful career in the insurance industry. Most recently Laurent was CEO of SCOR following leadership roles across property and casualty (P&C) re/insurance. Previously Laurent was in JP Morgan’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group.
The advisory board group consists of leaders across the Commercial and Specialty insurance consisting of Bronek Masojada, Chair of SiriusPoint and formerly CEO of Hiscox, Kelly Lyles, board member at Convex and Howden Group, Jeffrey Hayman, Chair of R&Q Insurance Holdings and former board member of Zurich Insurance Group, Emmanuel Clarke, Chair BMSand former CEO of PartnerRe, John Bruno, President of Xerox and former Group COO & CEO of Data & Analytic Services of Aon and Bill Bloom, former CIO at both The Hartford and Travelers, Thomas Huerlimann, board member of Hiscox and former CEO of Zurich Global Corporate, James Platt, Operating Partner at Trimstone and former Group COO Aon, Adrian Brown, former UK CEO RSA, KarenGreen, board member of Miller Insurance Services and Phoenix Group Holdings andAlan Morgan, former senior partner at McKinsey and head of financial services.
Many members have been in executive positions leading brokers, insurance companies and reinsurers and as well as holding responsibility for large scale transformation programs. The appointments follow a period of significant growth for Cytora including a recently announced partnership with Chubb.
Laurent Rousseau, Member of Cytora’s Advisory Board, said: “I’m excited about working with the Cytora team as they grow globally, accelerate the digitization of risk workflows for re/insurance companies and ultimately enable a step change in client, broker and insurer experience. There is an opportunity ahead to build larger and more impactful risk and insurance industry”
Richard Hartley, CEO of Cytora, said: “The transformative opportunity presented by artificial intelligence is a board level priority and it is a complex area for insurance and reinsurance companies to navigate, scale across their business and achieve enduring outperformance. Laurent will benefit our team, partners and clients with his deep expertise across the broking, insurance and reinsurance value chain”
