AXIS beefs up its US management liability underwriting team with four hires
AXIS Insurance has hired Christina Segreti, Drew Kushnick, Matthew Holzinger and Sherry Alexakis as senior underwriters in its US management liability team.
Segreti works across management liability lines, including public and private directors and officers liability (D&O), employment practices liability (EPL), fiduciary liability and crime coverages. She was most recently a broker for property and casualty lines at Gallagher. Earlier in her career she focused on management liability insurance products as a client service associate at Marsh & McLennan, and as a financial products underwriter at Great American Insurance.
Kushnick will also work across management liability lines, including public and private D&O, EPL, fiduciary liability and crime coverages. He was previously a senior underwriter at Chubb Insurance, evaluating and underwriting professional liability lines for private companies and large-scale nonprofits. He began his career in insurance at Chubb as a financial lines underwriter.
Holzinger works closely with AXIS’ private equity product team and focuses on underwriting insurance products for private equity and venture capital firms, as well as private equity-backed public and private portfolio company investments. He joins AXIS from Starr Companies where he was a financial institutions underwriter.
Alexakis focuses on commercial crime underwriting. She joins from Chubb Insurance where she was a senior management liability underwriter. Alexakis brings 15 years’ experience assessing private and non-profit companies for D&O, EPL, fiduciary, crime and other related insurance coverages. She started her career at Chubb working as a claims adjuster, negotiating personal property claims before transitioning into various underwriting roles.
AXIS also recently hired Alexandra Tucker as an underwriter for middle market private company management liability products, for both wholesale and retail distribution.
Mark Paccione, head of commercial management solutions at AXIS Insurance, described the hires as “experienced management liability underwriters who will help us develop propositions that address the challenges and threats faced by businesses and their executives.”
He added: “The growth and evolution of our management liability team is in response to increased demand in the market and our desire to continually enhance our underwriting capabilities to reflect the changing needs of our brokers and clients.”
