Zurich on Monday announced the appointment of Umron Ahmed to the position of Chief Executive Officer for Zurich’s Global Corporate business in the Middle East & Africa, effective from January 1, 2013.
In his new role Ahmed will succeed JP Fowler, who returned to Zurich’s North America operations and took up a new role within the local Global Corporate business.
Ahmed will be responsible for further strengthening Zurich’s corporate business in the Middle East & Africa and will play a key role in achieving the company’s goals in terms of growing its middle market offering in this fast growing region. He will report to Saad Mered, CEO of Zurich’s General Insurance business in Middle East & Africa, and to Thomas Hürlimann, CEO of Zurich’s Global Corporate business.
Ahmed has held a number of key roles since he joined Zurich in 2008 and has successfully driven Zurich’s Global Corporate proposition portfolio strategy and implemented numerous propositions over multiple geographies. Prior to joining Zurich, he held a variety of senior roles within Marsh over a career with them that spanned 16 years on both sides of the Atlantic. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Statistics from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne in the UK, is an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute and was also a Lloyds and New York licensed broker.
In announcing the appointment, Saad Mered and Thomas Hürlimann noted: “Umron has a broad range of experience, a proven track record and is extremely well qualified to lead our Global Corporate business to even greater success in one of Zurich’s fastest growing regions.”