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 contains roles at Aon and Marsh, the place he has expertise in scaling the US operations successfully.
Bringing 40 years of US insurance coverage trade 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 embody vice-chair and board member at Brown & Brown.
Hays mentioned: “I couldn’t be extra energised to affix this extremely thrilling, deeply formidable Group with its military of entrepreneurs devoted to serving purchasers. And naturally, to work with David, who’s for my part one of the vital visionary leaders in enterprise at the moment.”
Howden has been operational within the US for greater than a decade by means of DUAL, Howden Re and as a wholesale dealer for US purchasers in worldwide markets, dealing with greater than $18bn in US premiums up to now.
Howden CEO David Howden acknowledged: “Mike’s appointment is an extremely essential 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 have now discovered one in all 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 residence for expertise and purchasers within the US.
“And in Jim we have now one of the vital achieved entrepreneurs within the US, who brings a wealth of expertise to the Group Board as we speed up in the 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.
