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Allianz promotes Steve Kelly to underwriting account manager, Engineering, Construction & Power
Allianz has announced that Steve Kelly will be promoted to the role of underwriting account manager for Allianz Engineering, Construction & Power.
In his new role Steve will be responsible for the strategic leadership of the Allianz Engineering, Construction & Power portfolio including the setting of risk appetite and pricing, overseeing engineering inspection pricing & segmentation, as well as ensuring technical excellence is embedded across the team.
Steve joined Allianz in 2015 as senior technical manager and was responsible for large and complex case referrals as well as propositions and underwriter development.
Prior to working for Allianz, Steve was the underwriting lead for RSA’s construction and Engineering business in Western Europe and leader of the Global Centres of Excellence for Solar and Bio Renewable Energy.
Catherine Dixon, commercial underwriting director, Allianz Insurance, commented: “It gives me enormous pleasure to announce that Steve Kelly will take up the role of underwriting account manager for Engineering, Construction & Power.
“For the last four years Steve has been the technical lead within EC&P and is a natural successor to Claire Buck. His knowledge and capabilities span the traditional engineering insurance, construction and renewable energy sectors, so his expertise and leadership will play a key role in helping us achieve our ambitious plans in these markets.”
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The Allianz Group is one of the world's leading insurers and asset managers with more than 92 million retail and corporate customers. Allianz customers benefit from a broad range of personal and corporate insurance services, ranging from property, life and health insurance to assistance services to credit insurance and global business insurance. Allianz is one of the world’s largest investors, managing around 673 billion euros on behalf of its insurance customers. Furthermore our asset managers PIMCO and Allianz Global Investors manage more than 1.4 trillion euros of third-party assets. Thanks to our systematic integration of ecological and social criteria in our business processes and investment decisions, we hold the leading position for insurers in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. In 2018, over 142,000 employees in more than 80 countries achieved total revenues of 131 billion euros and an operating profit of 11.5 billion euros for the group.
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