Everest Re hires Alex Poracchia as chief actuary for global markets

Everest Re Group has hired Alex Poracchia as international chief actuary and chief financial officer of the global markets division.

Poracchia has spent more than 22 years in the re/insurance market. Most recently he spent nearly eight years at Deloitte UK as a partner within the actuarial, reward and analytics practice, predominantly supporting international clients' audits, M&A and finance transformation programmes.

He also spent ten years at Zurich Financial Services, where he held several roles, including chief actuary and then CFO of the global corporate division. He has also worked at Swiss Re and Bavarian Re,

Vincent Vandendael, CEO of Everest’s global markets business, said Poracchia’s “depth of knowledge, expertise and skills” would be an asset to the international actuarial and finance departments.