Global specialty insurer and reinsurer SiriusPoint has appointed Anthony Shapella as Deputy Chief Underwriting Officer, effective September 5, 2023.
Shapella joins SiriusPoint from AIG, where he held several senior roles during his decade-long tenure.
These include the Global Head of Portfolio Analytics, Chief Risk Officer for Financial and Liability Lines and Risk Aggregation Analytics Director.
Prior to Aon, Shapella worked at Towers Watson in insurance consulting and reinsurance brokerage roles.
Now, in this newly created role, SiriusPoint says Shapella will work closely with global executive and underwriting leadership to create “underwriting value and growth.”
“His focus is on profitability and performance management, optimizing underwriting capital allocation, disciplined portfolio management and delivering a One SiriusPoint approach to global underwriting,” the company explained.
David Govrin, SiriusPoint Group President, Chief Underwriting Officer, and to whom Shapella will report, commented, “I am very pleased to welcome Anthony to SiriusPoint. He is a leader in his field with nearly 20 years of experience and a strong and diverse background in all aspects of underwriting. He brings significant depth to the global underwriting function.
“SiriusPoint is an underwriting-first company and we’ve taken a number of actions over the past two years to refine our underwriting model and culture, align our risk appetite with our global strategy, and have an impact on many -improve our portfolio.
“I’m thrilled that we’ve created a culture and built a track record of performance that brings the best talent in the industry to us.”
Shapella, who will be based in New York, added, “There is real momentum building at SiriusPoint for the Company to be ‘best in class’ in the markets in which it operates.
“Sustained underwriting discipline is part of the journey to profitability and success and I look forward to joining the Company to contribute and collaborate with the team and our stakeholders.”
