22 August 2016News

PartnerRe names two non-executive directors to join board

PartnerRe, the Bermuda-based reinsurer, has appointed Bilge Ogut and Nikhil Srinivasan as non-executive directors to its board.

Ogut is the head of private equity in Europe at Partners Group, a private markets investment manager firm, and is a member of Partners Group’s private equity directs investment committee and private equity primaries Europe investment committee.

She previously served as deputy head of private equity at Standard Bank International from 2010 to 2011, and before that was with Warburg Pincus.

Srinivasan is the group chief investment officer and a member of the group management committee of Generali and chairman of Generali Real Estate.

Prior to this, he spent ten year at Allianz in both Singapore and Munich, where he was group chief investment officer and a member of Allianz’s international executive committee, responsible for the firm’s investment strategy.

John Elkann, PartneRe’s board chairman, commented: “On behalf of the Board, I would like to extend a warm welcome to Bilge and Nikhil. They further strengthen the Board’s breadth of talent and background and as independent directors from outside the reinsurance industry, they will bring a new and valuable perspectives.”