Veteran financial director Philip Broadley has become the chair of Lancashire Holdings following the company's annual general meeting.
The Bermuda-based re/insurer announced last November that Broadley would become chair, succeeding Peter Clarke, who has now stepped down as chair and as a non-executive director of the company.
Broadley has been a non-executive director of pharmaceutical giant Astra Zeneca since 2017 and of life re/insurer Legal & General since 2016.
He was group finance director of financial services company Old Mutual from 2008 to 2014 and held the same role withe Prudential between 2000 and 2008.