Howden has named Mike Parrish as CEO of Howden US and Jim Hays as vice-chairman of Howden Group Holdings.
Parrish is tasked with establishing a US retail broking enterprise.
He’ll begin at Howden in September, pending the completion of relevant contractual necessities.
His earlier expertise consists of roles at Aon and Marsh, the place he has expertise in scaling the US operations successfully.
Bringing 40 years of US insurance coverage business expertise to the board, Jim Hays was the founder and former CEO of Hays Firm.
He offered the corporate to Brown & Brown in 2018 and served in positions embrace vice-chair and board member at Brown & Brown.
Hays stated: “I couldn’t be extra energised to affix this extremely thrilling, deeply formidable Group with its military of entrepreneurs devoted to serving shoppers. And naturally, to work with David, who’s for my part one of the crucial visionary leaders in enterprise as we speak.”
Howden has been operational within the US for greater than a decade by DUAL, Howden Re and as a wholesale dealer for US shoppers in worldwide markets, dealing with greater than $18bn in US premiums to this point.
Howden CEO David Howden acknowledged: “Mike’s appointment is an extremely vital second in our 30-year historical past of constructing a worldwide group with an brisk and entrepreneurial tradition, owned by the individuals who work in it. In Mike we’ve got discovered one in every of insurance coverage’s most excellent leaders, with an proprietor’s mindset and an unrivalled track-record, who desires the liberty to construct a enterprise that’s another house for expertise and shoppers within the US.
“And in Jim we’ve got one of the crucial completed entrepreneurs within the US, who brings a wealth of expertise to the Group Board as we speed up in direction of our formidable 2030 imaginative and prescient.”
Final month, Howden acquired a 68.3% stake in Holos Holdings, a Japan-headquartered retail insurance coverage dealer.
