Of the 156 senior global insurance moves tracked over the last month - a record high for the last 18 months - the ones that received the most interest from our subscribers on TALNT were:Grace Campbell, who has been promoted to global broker and customer director at RSA. Campbell has been at RSA since 2017, where she was most recently working as senior strategic account director. She has over 20 years’ experience in the industry, including time spent at Aviva.Ann Haugh, who has been appointed the new CEO of AXIS Re. Haugh replaces previous CEO Steve Arora as part of the firm's multi-year plan to shift focus towards becoming a specialist reinsurer with a commitment to casualty, specialty, A&H, and credit lines – and away from property reinsurance.Enny Halim, who has joined MSIG Asia in Singapore as Executive Vice President, Business Development & Digitalisation. Halim joins the MSIG Asia management team from Indonesia, where she was CEO at PT Mandiri AXA General Insurance for 2 years. Katie Wolff, who will be appointed to the role of MS Amlin Insurance Country Manager for the United Kingdom (subject to regulatory approval). Wolff has been as MS Amlin for several years, where she has been Head of Digital Trading. She has more than 15 years’s experience in the industry, including recent roles at A J Gallagher and Mitsui Sumitomo.Monica Caldas, who has been named Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Liberty Mutual (effective January 2023). Caldas was promoted to Deputy CIO in March 2022 and is responsible for the technology roadmap across the company’s three business units. Prior to that, she was Executive Vice President and Global CIO for GRM.Ian Sawyer, who has joined AXA XL as it's London Head of US Casualty, Reinsurance. Sawyer joins AXA XL from SiriusPoint, where he has been Global Head of Casualty since 2018. Sawyer brings more than 35 years’ industry experience to his role, where he will be responsible for leading AXA XL's Global Markets US Casualty team in the UK.Amy Brettell, who has been appointed as Managing Director of Zurich Municipal. Brettell has been with Zurich for 15 years holding a range of senior leadership roles, most recently Head of Customer in UK Claims.Karen Rzeszutko, who has been appointed Senior Vice President, Marine Underwriting at Munich Re Specialty Group, North America. Rzeszutko will lead the company’s inland and ocean marine underwriting teams from the MRSG N.A. headquarters in Chicago, IL. She has been with Munich Re Specialty Group NA since it was founded, and has 25 years of industry experience.Global senior insurance hires, June 2022The following chart shows the overall trend in senior global insurance hires since January 2021. Monthly appointments shot up to their highest level in 18 months, reaching 156 for June:image.png 78.01 KBGlobal senior insurance hires by sub sector, June 2021 – June 2022Looking deeper at senior hiring trends by sub-sector, we can see that the number of appointments increased in every sub-sector besides InsurTech, all of them hitting annual peaks, suggesting a large increase in hiring across the board:image.png 61.5 KBGender balance of senior global insurance hires, June 2022Of the new senior appointments we tracked last month, the average global gender split was 22% women and 78% men, a slightly lower gender imbalance than we saw in May, but higher than April. Looking at the regions shows them all on similar numbers. EMEA saw 21% of appointments go to women, while AsiaPAC saw 22% and the Americas 22.5%:image.png 49.81 KBTop 10 companies with the most new appointments in June 2022Here are the global insurance businesses who made the most senior appointments in June, with Willis Towers Watson clearly leading the pack, just as they did in April and May:image.png 29.84 KB  If you would like to know more information about Sheffield Haworth's Insurance Practice, get in touch with Ben Johnson (b.johnson@sheffieldhaworth.com)

June 2022 observed some key moves in the Software and Deep Tech industries. Here are the top 10 moves:Meta (1st June) June began with a shock as the Chief Operating Officer of Meta, Sheryl Sandberg, announced she was departing from her role effective immediately. Sandberg directed multiple efforts throughout her 14 years at Meta that finally led to the development of the contemporary advertising ecosystem as we know it.Sandberg's laser-like concentration on quantifiable results for advertising, Meta saw enormous commercial success, as Sandberg oversaw the growth of Meta's revenue from $272 million in 2008 to nearly $118 billion in 2021. Hundreds of companies started to mimic Facebook's strategy soon after Sandberg and Facebook demonstrated this huge commercial success. Her departure saw Meta shares falling by approximately 4%. (Read more).2. BigBear.ai (2nd June) Analytics and cyber engineering firm BigBear.ai, added two new members to its senior leadership group. Josh Kinley who was promoted to the newly created position of Chief Corporate Development Officer, and was replaced as the company's Chief Financial Officer by Julie Peffer. BigBear.ai CEO, Reggie Brothers, considers these moves to be of utmost importance to the growth of the company. "Peffer's strong experience driving revenue growth and margin expansion through excellent SaaS modelling and pricing," according to Brothers, explains Peffer's suitability for the CFO position. Additionally, Brothers has entrusted Josh Kinley to expand BigBear.ai's market reach throughout the public and private sectors, assessing potential mergers and acquisitions and spearheading integration strategy and execution. The moves come at a time when BigBear.ai have suffered significant fluctuations in its share price since the beginning of 2022. (Read more).3. Intel Corporation (8th June)By appointing April Miller Boise as Executive Vice President & Chief Legal Officer, Intel Corporation has solidified its mission to be the commanding force in the semiconductor industry. "Our ambitious goals for Intel are set against an increasingly complex legal and policy environment, and April's breadth of skills and experience make her a critical addition to our leadership team as we pursue the largest transformation in the company's history," remarked Intel CEO, Pat Gelsinger. Miller Boise has worked for more than 25 years in various businesses, including senior roles such as general counsel, head of global mergers and acquisitions, and corporate secretary. She worked for more than ten years at the Cleveland, Ohio-based commercial law firm Thompson Hine LLP, serving as senior vice president, CLO, and corporate secretary for Meritor Inc., and most recently held the positions of executive vice president and CLO at Eaton Corp.  Miller Boise will join Intel's executive leadership team, provide advice and guidance to the leadership, and serve on the board of directors. Miller Boise's combination of commercial knowledge and legal experience, according to Gelsinger, made her a particularly strong fit for her new position. (Read more).4. Microsoft UAE (30th June)Microsoft UAE is saying goodbye to departing General Manager for the UAE, Sayed Hashish. Microsoft has always considered  Hashish to be a consistent, inspiring leader. By working with governmental agencies, start-ups, and other private businesses to utilise Microsoft's platforms and technologies, he has significantly contributed to the company's expansion in the United Arab Emirates. His successor, Naim Yazbeck, has held the position of Regional Director for the Enterprise and Partner Group (EPG) at Microsoft, where he has been in charge of the company's initiatives to speed up digital transformation across industries in the Gulf region as well as strategic alliances with important clients and partners. (Read more).5. Pinterest (28th June) Due in part to its female user base and former CEO and co-founder Ben Silbermann's likeable persona, Pinterest had gained a reputation as a gentle company that avoided following Silicon Valley's startup playbook of machismo, strutting bluster. But as workers exposed instances of sexism and racism in the workplace in recent years, the business came under intense criticism. Moreover, given the tough economic conditions, the company was in need of a seasoned winner, experienced enough to steer Pinterest away from any significant losses. Bill Ready's appointment, therefore, is no major surprise. Ready was the former president of commerce, payments and next billion users at Alphabet's Google, as well as a former exec at PayPal. At first, he was exclusively in charge of commercial initiatives, such as those to compete with Amazon by eliminating "Buy on Google" commission fees and making listings on Google Shopping free. In April 2021, Ready acquired Payments and Next Billion Users in the wake of Caesar Sengupta's retirement as a longstanding Google executive. A "major role in developing a new vision and strategy for Commerce and Payments at Google" is credited to him. (Read more).6. AMD (22nd June) The semiconductor industry is on a path to recovery. The easing of shortages has paved a concrete path for better prospects in the future. Mathew Hein's appointment as AMD's new Chief Strategy Officer, therefore, is not surprising. Hein served as an advisor to AMD throughout the acquisitions of Xilinx and Pensando while he was a partner at DBO Partners prior to joining AMD. His career also includes holding several top positions for organisations such as Morgan Stanley, Qolsys, SGI, and Ethertronics. Additionally, MergerLinks named him a Top Investment Banker in North America for 2020. Hein has been tasked with "advancing the company's strategy across an expanded market for high-performance and adaptive computing solutions" by company Chair and CEO, Dr. Lisa Su. (Read more).7. Volta Charging (13th June) On June 13th, Volta Inc., a market-leading provider of electric vehicle charging networks, announced that its Board of Directors had made several significant leadership appointments and new hires to support the Company's upcoming phase of growth and operational success. The Board engaged Stephen Pilatzke to serve as Chief Accounting Officer and selected Vincent Cubbage as Interim Chief Executive Officer. In order to take advantage of Volta's expanding revenue impetus and market potential, the Board also announced that Brandt Hastings would be promoted to Chief Commercial Officer. Additionally, Drew Lipsher was given the title of Chief Development Officer, and effective with the aforementioned appointments, Kathy Savitt, a Director and previously Co-Chair of the Volta Board, was named sole Chair of the Board. In a hotly contested sector, Volta's massive influx of promotions and new appointments paves the way for expansion and solidifies the company's reputation as a primary player in the sector. (Read more). 8. 6Sense (9th June) Earlier in June, 6Sense acquired AdTech providers Granite Media, paving the way for the Granite Media acquisition marketing team to unleash the potential of 6sense consumers and drive advertising product innovation. Bryan Wise and Terese Lam were subsequently appointed to the positions of Chief Information Officer and Chief People Officer, respectively, by 6sense in conjunction with the acquisition. Terese Lam previously served as the Chief People Officer at Wind River, a leading provider of intelligent edge software, where she played a key role in advancing change in all areas pertaining to personnel, culture, and organisational structure. She has more than 20 years of great HR expertise in major, multinational organisations as well as medium-sized, fast-growing businesses all over the world. Bryan Wise joined 6sense as the organization's first CIO, where he has been responsible for monitoring and fostering innovation within the Information Technology function of the firm, as well as developing top-notch teams that have a positive influence on the company's bottom line. In the past, Wise held remarkable Vice President positions at well-known technology firms like GitLab, Snowflake, DocuSign, and others. These appointments come at a time when 6Sense has been significantly growing and hitting monumental milestones, such as most recently closing a Series E funding round of $200 million in January, doubling its valuation to over $5.2 billion. (Read more).9. SymphonyAI (15th June) The Great Resignation has enabled many employees to voluntarily resign from their jobs en masse in search for better opportunities and easy-going working conditions with added incentives. Tech giants, such as Microsoft, Apple, and Google have been the victims of this economic trend. But smaller tech companies and startups have profited off of this economic trend. Bill Bragg, SymphonyAI's new Chief Information Officer, joins from Google, where he was head of Fitbit corporate IT and successfully led employee productivity integration and migration. Previously, he was vice president of IT infrastructure at Riverbed Technology and the first customer of Riverbed's business performance management software. Bragg spent 14 years at Cisco Systems in various IT and engineering operations roles. He has led transformative initiatives through global teams, building and operating programs worldwide, including in India, China, and Europe. Bragg's extensive experience can only prove to be valuable for SymphonyAI in the long term, where he has been tasked with "driving SymphonyAI's corporate information technology strategy and overseeing all IT and information security." (Read more). 10. Zeta (June 22nd) Zeta hired their first Chief People Officer in Candice Chafey. Candice has been tasked with leading Zeta's human resources team, spearheading Zeta's culture initiatives, and to drive  the company's employee experience strategy. With more than 20 years of experience in senior human resource positions at organisations like Sisense, Bridgewater Associates, and Lehman Brothers, Candice brings a wealth of knowledge, accelerating businesses by coordinating talent with organisational goals, establishing a people-first environment, and influencing corporate culture. She will work with Juliet Schuler, Zeta's Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, on DEIB projects. Zeta is strengthening its commitment to the general growth, development and well-being of employees as it expands its worldwide workforce to produce data-driven products and solutions that spur profitable growth for the most intelligent marketers on the planet. The long-term Zeta 2025 plan, which was unveiled in February 2022, includes this investment. (Read more).

Of the 79 senior global insurance moves tracked over the last month, the ones that received the most interest from our subscribers on TALNT were:Christian Taube, who joined Beazley as its new Head of Cyber Services – International. Taube was previously Chief Information Security Officer at Contentserv and, prior to that, he built the information security practice at DataGuard. He will be taking up his new role from Beazley’s Munich office, where he will be responsible for further developing and enhancing the company’s cyber risk management and incident response functions.Charlotte Jones, who has joined Aviva as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director. Jones was previously CFO of RSA Insurance plc, Interim Chief Executive Officer of the RSA UK & International business. Prior to her time in insurance, she held a variety of roles, such as Head of Group Finance at Credit Suisse Group, Deputy Group CFO at Deutsche Bank Group, and CFO of Jupiter Fund Management, where she was the member of the board and executive committee with responsibility for finance and corporate strategy.Jessica Saperstein, who has joined financial advisor and insurance firm Voya Financial as Chief Customer Experience Office. Saperstein has over 20 years of industry experience in marketing, digital transformation and global business and corporate strategy. At Voya, she will be responsible for creating and executing Voya’s long-term customer experience (CX) plan.Hannah Ross, who has been appointed to Bermuda International Long Term Insurers and Reinsurers (BILTIR)’s board of directors. Ross is currently Chief Strategy and Capital Officer at multi-line insurance and financial services company The Argus Group, where she leads a team covering group actuarial and risk, capital and finance, and strategic performance delivery. She has been at Argus since 2010, before which she held actuarial roles at Synesis Life, KPMG, and Pension Insurance Corporation.Caroline Richardson, who has been appointed to lead the new cyber practice at Bishopsgate. Richardson was previously at Miller Insurance Services, where she worked on both retail and wholesale cyber placements and solutions for global corporate organisations and facilities and grew its international and UK business. Prior to that she was Associate Director of Aon advising large professional services clients on cyber and professional indemnity programmes, and before that she was a professional indemnity underwriter with Barbican Syndicate.Paula Ferreira, who has been appointed Aon’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Latin America in Reinsurance Solutions. Ferreira has worked at Aon for 13 years, most recently as the firm’s Reinsurance Solutions Growth Leader and President for Latin America. She brings 26 years’ experience in reinsurance to her new role.Claudia Cordioli, who has been appointed Swiss Re’s new Group Finance Director. Cordioli has worked at Swiss Re since 2003 and held a variety of roles, most recently CFO of Reinsurance.  Vanida Pillay has been appointed the new Chief Executive of the South Africa branch of MNK Re Group. Pillay will lead MNK Re’s South Africa branch with a focus on expanding the company’s Construction, Power, Single Project PI insurance (SPPI), Cyber and Decennial liability.Olivia Brindle, who has joined specialty insurer and reinsurer Fidelis as its new Head of Sustainability. Brindle joins Fidelis from Swiss Re, where she was an Investor Relations Senior Manager. Her appointment reflects Fidelis’ stated focus on ESG within the firm’s underwriting portfolio, operations, and investments.Emmy Pan, who has joined AXA XL as energy underwriter to its Americas Property insurance team, based in Houston. Pan joins AXA XL from Zurich North America where she managed a high volume of energy property insurance business.Anna Bennett, who has been appointed director of underwriting for casualty for the UK at QBE. Bennett joined QBE in 2018, where she previously held the roles of interim director of underwriting for casualty, and European operations divisional lead for multinational and portfolio manager in the UK casualty major risks team.Morris Taylor, who has been appointed Chief Information Officer for Markel’s insurance operations. Taylor’s role will include responsibility for leading Markel’s global IT function while continuing to build on critical partnerships across Markel’s insurance operations.Matthew Moore, who has been appointed President of Underwriting at Liberty Mutual.Susanne Figueredo Cook, who has been appointed as Chief Operating Officer at Liberty Mutual.Phil Hobbs was appointed as President of Liberty Specialty Markets at Liberty Mutual.Global senior insurance hires, Apr 2022The following chart shows the overall trend in senior global insurance hires since January 2021. It shows that monthly appointments have been holding steady within a range of 75 – 95 since September last year. The peaks and dips seen in previous months have balanced out over a longer timescale.  image.png 72.26 KBGlobal senior insurance hires by sub sector, April 2021 – April 2022Looking deeper at senior hiring trends by sub-sector, we can see that the number of appointments in the Non-life sector remained steady after a drop in March from its annual peak in February. Reinsurance and Brokers/Intermediaries continued to remain steady, while Life/Health dropped to zero from seven the month before:image.png 63.42 KBGender balance of senior global insurance hires, April 2022Of the new senior appointments we tracked last month, the average global gender split was 31% women and 69% men. Looking at the regions shows that, while the Americas saw the lowest proportion of female senior appointments at 25%, EMEA saw the highest at 38.1% (the highest proportion of female appointments in the region so far this year), while AsiaPAC sits in the middle, at 30%:image.png 49.95 KBTop 10 companies with the most new appointments in April 2022Here are the global insurance businesses who made the most senior appointments in April, with Willis Towers Watson clearly leading the pack:image.png 28.48 KBIf you would like to know more information about Sheffield Haworth's Insurance Practice, get in touch with Ben Johnson (b.johnson@sheffieldhaworth.com)https://www.sheffieldhaworth.com/financial-services/insurance/

How is Global current affairs affecting hiring activity?Global markets are still recovering from the aftermath of the Covid pandemic, but there are now rising concerns of the Ukraine and Russia conflict, which is causing ripple effects across world economies.Inflation fears, and energy price hikes are just a few repercussions of this new and potentially global conflict, but what about hiring activity?    TALNT tracks 100’s of moves a week across the international financial services, real assets, technology and energy industries. As we examine the overall trends of moves since 2021, it is no surprise that there may be a direct correlation of global crisis affecting the hiring market. image.png 78.47 KBJanuary of this year saw a strong 46% increase of moves from the previous month, a 10% increase change from January 2021, indicating considerable growth in hiring activity. However, February 2022 witnessed a significant decrease of 41% change in people moves activity, a much larger decline than the 28% decrease during the 2020 pandemic in comparison.Although the decline continues into this month, the software industry seems to be the first to show recovery in hiring, however with the uncertainty around the conflict, we may only be seeing the tip of the iceberg.Select TALNT Insights in your preferences to follow people moves trends and insights as they unfold in the coming months. 

The Top 10 Most Viewed People Moves in 2021.In the past year, TALNT has collected over 10 thousand people moves across the financial services, real assets, technology, energy & natural resources and consulting industries. Here are the Top 10 most viewed moves of the period.Intermediate Capital group hired a five-member team, which is led by Allan Marchington, Managing Director and Head of ICG life sciences. The team members included Toby Sykes, Simon Tate, Peter Kiener and Tracy Weightman, who all worked together at Bridge Valley Ventures. The team focus on equity investments. Read more... Goldman Sachs veteran Sheila Patel was hired by B Capital as Vice Chairman. She was previously chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management based in London and a member of the bank's investment management committee. Read more... Former Goldman Sachs Partner, Head of Consumer Wealth Management Operations, Stephanie Smith was hired by BlackRock as Chief Operating Officer of its alternatives business. She replaced Todd Slattery, who had been the COO since 2015 and shifted to the role of platform specialist. Read more... UK hedge fund, Gladstone Capital, hired James Coltman as Chief Operating Officer. Previously he was CFO at fintech firm Fnality International. Sumant Wahi was also tapped as a partner and sector head of technology. Nabil Bouras was hired as an analyst. Read more...Bank of America secured hires in the real estate banking sector. Tim Ryan joined as managing director and Joseph Kuk joined as a director. Tim spent around half a decade in CBRE in London, overseeing its investment banking business in UK and Europe. Kuk joined from Aura Group. Read more... Berenberg experienced four new hires to the investment banking and ECM teams. Dominik Baer joined from Lazard, as new head of investment banking for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Andreas Franzen was named head of ECM execution and structuring in continental Europe. Edouard Senlier was recruited into ECM execution, from BNP.  Joining from Mediobanca, Hugo Joyeux was hired into ECM origination. Read more...Goldman Sachs experienced the departure of Tom Leake, who was head of EMEA equity structuring and was based in London. He joined Goldman Sachs in 2017 from Deutsche Bank and was promoted to partner the following year. He has since joined Capstone as head of solutions. Read more...Barrenjoey sealed three new equity research hires. Andrew Adams joined from Credit Suisse, where he worked as an analyst. Tom Kierath came from Firetail Investments, where he was an investment analyst and Peter Marks was hired from Morgan Stanley. Read more New head of electronic trading and digital strategy at Barclays, Peter Ward, is responsible for driving the bank's BARX offering. He was hired from JP Morgan, where he served as global head of futures and options trading. Read more...Chris Perkins was hired as a Managing Partner, responsible for narrowing the divide in crypto investing and traditional equities at CoinFund. He came from Citigroup, where he was managing director, global co-head of the futures, clearing and foreign-exchange prime brokerage businesses. Read more... 

Of the 156 senior global insurance moves tracked over the last month - a record high for the last 18 months - the ones that received the most interest from our subscribers on TALNT were:Grace Campbell, who has been promoted to global broker and customer director at RSA. Campbell has been at RSA since 2017, where she was most recently working as senior strategic account director. She has over 20 years’ experience in the industry, including time spent at Aviva.Ann Haugh, who has been appointed the new CEO of AXIS Re. Haugh replaces previous CEO Steve Arora as part of the firm's multi-year plan to shift focus towards becoming a specialist reinsurer with a commitment to casualty, specialty, A&H, and credit lines – and away from property reinsurance.Enny Halim, who has joined MSIG Asia in Singapore as Executive Vice President, Business Development & Digitalisation. Halim joins the MSIG Asia management team from Indonesia, where she was CEO at PT Mandiri AXA General Insurance for 2 years. Katie Wolff, who will be appointed to the role of MS Amlin Insurance Country Manager for the United Kingdom (subject to regulatory approval). Wolff has been as MS Amlin for several years, where she has been Head of Digital Trading. She has more than 15 years’s experience in the industry, including recent roles at A J Gallagher and Mitsui Sumitomo.Monica Caldas, who has been named Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Liberty Mutual (effective January 2023). Caldas was promoted to Deputy CIO in March 2022 and is responsible for the technology roadmap across the company’s three business units. Prior to that, she was Executive Vice President and Global CIO for GRM.Ian Sawyer, who has joined AXA XL as it's London Head of US Casualty, Reinsurance. Sawyer joins AXA XL from SiriusPoint, where he has been Global Head of Casualty since 2018. Sawyer brings more than 35 years’ industry experience to his role, where he will be responsible for leading AXA XL's Global Markets US Casualty team in the UK.Amy Brettell, who has been appointed as Managing Director of Zurich Municipal. Brettell has been with Zurich for 15 years holding a range of senior leadership roles, most recently Head of Customer in UK Claims.Karen Rzeszutko, who has been appointed Senior Vice President, Marine Underwriting at Munich Re Specialty Group, North America. Rzeszutko will lead the company’s inland and ocean marine underwriting teams from the MRSG N.A. headquarters in Chicago, IL. She has been with Munich Re Specialty Group NA since it was founded, and has 25 years of industry experience.Global senior insurance hires, June 2022The following chart shows the overall trend in senior global insurance hires since January 2021. Monthly appointments shot up to their highest level in 18 months, reaching 156 for June:image.png 78.01 KBGlobal senior insurance hires by sub sector, June 2021 – June 2022Looking deeper at senior hiring trends by sub-sector, we can see that the number of appointments increased in every sub-sector besides InsurTech, all of them hitting annual peaks, suggesting a large increase in hiring across the board:image.png 61.5 KBGender balance of senior global insurance hires, June 2022Of the new senior appointments we tracked last month, the average global gender split was 22% women and 78% men, a slightly lower gender imbalance than we saw in May, but higher than April. Looking at the regions shows them all on similar numbers. EMEA saw 21% of appointments go to women, while AsiaPAC saw 22% and the Americas 22.5%:image.png 49.81 KBTop 10 companies with the most new appointments in June 2022Here are the global insurance businesses who made the most senior appointments in June, with Willis Towers Watson clearly leading the pack, just as they did in April and May:image.png 29.84 KB  If you would like to know more information about Sheffield Haworth's Insurance Practice, get in touch with Ben Johnson (b.johnson@sheffieldhaworth.com)

June 2022 observed some key moves in the Software and Deep Tech industries. Here are the top 10 moves:Meta (1st June) June began with a shock as the Chief Operating Officer of Meta, Sheryl Sandberg, announced she was departing from her role effective immediately. Sandberg directed multiple efforts throughout her 14 years at Meta that finally led to the development of the contemporary advertising ecosystem as we know it.Sandberg's laser-like concentration on quantifiable results for advertising, Meta saw enormous commercial success, as Sandberg oversaw the growth of Meta's revenue from $272 million in 2008 to nearly $118 billion in 2021. Hundreds of companies started to mimic Facebook's strategy soon after Sandberg and Facebook demonstrated this huge commercial success. Her departure saw Meta shares falling by approximately 4%. (Read more).2. BigBear.ai (2nd June) Analytics and cyber engineering firm BigBear.ai, added two new members to its senior leadership group. Josh Kinley who was promoted to the newly created position of Chief Corporate Development Officer, and was replaced as the company's Chief Financial Officer by Julie Peffer. BigBear.ai CEO, Reggie Brothers, considers these moves to be of utmost importance to the growth of the company. "Peffer's strong experience driving revenue growth and margin expansion through excellent SaaS modelling and pricing," according to Brothers, explains Peffer's suitability for the CFO position. Additionally, Brothers has entrusted Josh Kinley to expand BigBear.ai's market reach throughout the public and private sectors, assessing potential mergers and acquisitions and spearheading integration strategy and execution. The moves come at a time when BigBear.ai have suffered significant fluctuations in its share price since the beginning of 2022. (Read more).3. Intel Corporation (8th June)By appointing April Miller Boise as Executive Vice President & Chief Legal Officer, Intel Corporation has solidified its mission to be the commanding force in the semiconductor industry. "Our ambitious goals for Intel are set against an increasingly complex legal and policy environment, and April's breadth of skills and experience make her a critical addition to our leadership team as we pursue the largest transformation in the company's history," remarked Intel CEO, Pat Gelsinger. Miller Boise has worked for more than 25 years in various businesses, including senior roles such as general counsel, head of global mergers and acquisitions, and corporate secretary. She worked for more than ten years at the Cleveland, Ohio-based commercial law firm Thompson Hine LLP, serving as senior vice president, CLO, and corporate secretary for Meritor Inc., and most recently held the positions of executive vice president and CLO at Eaton Corp.  Miller Boise will join Intel's executive leadership team, provide advice and guidance to the leadership, and serve on the board of directors. Miller Boise's combination of commercial knowledge and legal experience, according to Gelsinger, made her a particularly strong fit for her new position. (Read more).4. Microsoft UAE (30th June)Microsoft UAE is saying goodbye to departing General Manager for the UAE, Sayed Hashish. Microsoft has always considered  Hashish to be a consistent, inspiring leader. By working with governmental agencies, start-ups, and other private businesses to utilise Microsoft's platforms and technologies, he has significantly contributed to the company's expansion in the United Arab Emirates. His successor, Naim Yazbeck, has held the position of Regional Director for the Enterprise and Partner Group (EPG) at Microsoft, where he has been in charge of the company's initiatives to speed up digital transformation across industries in the Gulf region as well as strategic alliances with important clients and partners. (Read more).5. Pinterest (28th June) Due in part to its female user base and former CEO and co-founder Ben Silbermann's likeable persona, Pinterest had gained a reputation as a gentle company that avoided following Silicon Valley's startup playbook of machismo, strutting bluster. But as workers exposed instances of sexism and racism in the workplace in recent years, the business came under intense criticism. Moreover, given the tough economic conditions, the company was in need of a seasoned winner, experienced enough to steer Pinterest away from any significant losses. Bill Ready's appointment, therefore, is no major surprise. Ready was the former president of commerce, payments and next billion users at Alphabet's Google, as well as a former exec at PayPal. At first, he was exclusively in charge of commercial initiatives, such as those to compete with Amazon by eliminating "Buy on Google" commission fees and making listings on Google Shopping free. In April 2021, Ready acquired Payments and Next Billion Users in the wake of Caesar Sengupta's retirement as a longstanding Google executive. A "major role in developing a new vision and strategy for Commerce and Payments at Google" is credited to him. (Read more).6. AMD (22nd June) The semiconductor industry is on a path to recovery. The easing of shortages has paved a concrete path for better prospects in the future. Mathew Hein's appointment as AMD's new Chief Strategy Officer, therefore, is not surprising. Hein served as an advisor to AMD throughout the acquisitions of Xilinx and Pensando while he was a partner at DBO Partners prior to joining AMD. His career also includes holding several top positions for organisations such as Morgan Stanley, Qolsys, SGI, and Ethertronics. Additionally, MergerLinks named him a Top Investment Banker in North America for 2020. Hein has been tasked with "advancing the company's strategy across an expanded market for high-performance and adaptive computing solutions" by company Chair and CEO, Dr. Lisa Su. (Read more).7. Volta Charging (13th June) On June 13th, Volta Inc., a market-leading provider of electric vehicle charging networks, announced that its Board of Directors had made several significant leadership appointments and new hires to support the Company's upcoming phase of growth and operational success. The Board engaged Stephen Pilatzke to serve as Chief Accounting Officer and selected Vincent Cubbage as Interim Chief Executive Officer. In order to take advantage of Volta's expanding revenue impetus and market potential, the Board also announced that Brandt Hastings would be promoted to Chief Commercial Officer. Additionally, Drew Lipsher was given the title of Chief Development Officer, and effective with the aforementioned appointments, Kathy Savitt, a Director and previously Co-Chair of the Volta Board, was named sole Chair of the Board. In a hotly contested sector, Volta's massive influx of promotions and new appointments paves the way for expansion and solidifies the company's reputation as a primary player in the sector. (Read more). 8. 6Sense (9th June) Earlier in June, 6Sense acquired AdTech providers Granite Media, paving the way for the Granite Media acquisition marketing team to unleash the potential of 6sense consumers and drive advertising product innovation. Bryan Wise and Terese Lam were subsequently appointed to the positions of Chief Information Officer and Chief People Officer, respectively, by 6sense in conjunction with the acquisition. Terese Lam previously served as the Chief People Officer at Wind River, a leading provider of intelligent edge software, where she played a key role in advancing change in all areas pertaining to personnel, culture, and organisational structure. She has more than 20 years of great HR expertise in major, multinational organisations as well as medium-sized, fast-growing businesses all over the world. Bryan Wise joined 6sense as the organization's first CIO, where he has been responsible for monitoring and fostering innovation within the Information Technology function of the firm, as well as developing top-notch teams that have a positive influence on the company's bottom line. In the past, Wise held remarkable Vice President positions at well-known technology firms like GitLab, Snowflake, DocuSign, and others. These appointments come at a time when 6Sense has been significantly growing and hitting monumental milestones, such as most recently closing a Series E funding round of $200 million in January, doubling its valuation to over $5.2 billion. (Read more).9. SymphonyAI (15th June) The Great Resignation has enabled many employees to voluntarily resign from their jobs en masse in search for better opportunities and easy-going working conditions with added incentives. Tech giants, such as Microsoft, Apple, and Google have been the victims of this economic trend. But smaller tech companies and startups have profited off of this economic trend. Bill Bragg, SymphonyAI's new Chief Information Officer, joins from Google, where he was head of Fitbit corporate IT and successfully led employee productivity integration and migration. Previously, he was vice president of IT infrastructure at Riverbed Technology and the first customer of Riverbed's business performance management software. Bragg spent 14 years at Cisco Systems in various IT and engineering operations roles. He has led transformative initiatives through global teams, building and operating programs worldwide, including in India, China, and Europe. Bragg's extensive experience can only prove to be valuable for SymphonyAI in the long term, where he has been tasked with "driving SymphonyAI's corporate information technology strategy and overseeing all IT and information security." (Read more). 10. Zeta (June 22nd) Zeta hired their first Chief People Officer in Candice Chafey. Candice has been tasked with leading Zeta's human resources team, spearheading Zeta's culture initiatives, and to drive  the company's employee experience strategy. With more than 20 years of experience in senior human resource positions at organisations like Sisense, Bridgewater Associates, and Lehman Brothers, Candice brings a wealth of knowledge, accelerating businesses by coordinating talent with organisational goals, establishing a people-first environment, and influencing corporate culture. She will work with Juliet Schuler, Zeta's Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, on DEIB projects. Zeta is strengthening its commitment to the general growth, development and well-being of employees as it expands its worldwide workforce to produce data-driven products and solutions that spur profitable growth for the most intelligent marketers on the planet. The long-term Zeta 2025 plan, which was unveiled in February 2022, includes this investment. (Read more).

Of the 79 senior global insurance moves tracked over the last month, the ones that received the most interest from our subscribers on TALNT were:Christian Taube, who joined Beazley as its new Head of Cyber Services – International. Taube was previously Chief Information Security Officer at Contentserv and, prior to that, he built the information security practice at DataGuard. He will be taking up his new role from Beazley’s Munich office, where he will be responsible for further developing and enhancing the company’s cyber risk management and incident response functions.Charlotte Jones, who has joined Aviva as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director. Jones was previously CFO of RSA Insurance plc, Interim Chief Executive Officer of the RSA UK & International business. Prior to her time in insurance, she held a variety of roles, such as Head of Group Finance at Credit Suisse Group, Deputy Group CFO at Deutsche Bank Group, and CFO of Jupiter Fund Management, where she was the member of the board and executive committee with responsibility for finance and corporate strategy.Jessica Saperstein, who has joined financial advisor and insurance firm Voya Financial as Chief Customer Experience Office. Saperstein has over 20 years of industry experience in marketing, digital transformation and global business and corporate strategy. At Voya, she will be responsible for creating and executing Voya’s long-term customer experience (CX) plan.Hannah Ross, who has been appointed to Bermuda International Long Term Insurers and Reinsurers (BILTIR)’s board of directors. Ross is currently Chief Strategy and Capital Officer at multi-line insurance and financial services company The Argus Group, where she leads a team covering group actuarial and risk, capital and finance, and strategic performance delivery. She has been at Argus since 2010, before which she held actuarial roles at Synesis Life, KPMG, and Pension Insurance Corporation.Caroline Richardson, who has been appointed to lead the new cyber practice at Bishopsgate. Richardson was previously at Miller Insurance Services, where she worked on both retail and wholesale cyber placements and solutions for global corporate organisations and facilities and grew its international and UK business. Prior to that she was Associate Director of Aon advising large professional services clients on cyber and professional indemnity programmes, and before that she was a professional indemnity underwriter with Barbican Syndicate.Paula Ferreira, who has been appointed Aon’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Latin America in Reinsurance Solutions. Ferreira has worked at Aon for 13 years, most recently as the firm’s Reinsurance Solutions Growth Leader and President for Latin America. She brings 26 years’ experience in reinsurance to her new role.Claudia Cordioli, who has been appointed Swiss Re’s new Group Finance Director. Cordioli has worked at Swiss Re since 2003 and held a variety of roles, most recently CFO of Reinsurance.  Vanida Pillay has been appointed the new Chief Executive of the South Africa branch of MNK Re Group. Pillay will lead MNK Re’s South Africa branch with a focus on expanding the company’s Construction, Power, Single Project PI insurance (SPPI), Cyber and Decennial liability.Olivia Brindle, who has joined specialty insurer and reinsurer Fidelis as its new Head of Sustainability. Brindle joins Fidelis from Swiss Re, where she was an Investor Relations Senior Manager. Her appointment reflects Fidelis’ stated focus on ESG within the firm’s underwriting portfolio, operations, and investments.Emmy Pan, who has joined AXA XL as energy underwriter to its Americas Property insurance team, based in Houston. Pan joins AXA XL from Zurich North America where she managed a high volume of energy property insurance business.Anna Bennett, who has been appointed director of underwriting for casualty for the UK at QBE. Bennett joined QBE in 2018, where she previously held the roles of interim director of underwriting for casualty, and European operations divisional lead for multinational and portfolio manager in the UK casualty major risks team.Morris Taylor, who has been appointed Chief Information Officer for Markel’s insurance operations. Taylor’s role will include responsibility for leading Markel’s global IT function while continuing to build on critical partnerships across Markel’s insurance operations.Matthew Moore, who has been appointed President of Underwriting at Liberty Mutual.Susanne Figueredo Cook, who has been appointed as Chief Operating Officer at Liberty Mutual.Phil Hobbs was appointed as President of Liberty Specialty Markets at Liberty Mutual.Global senior insurance hires, Apr 2022The following chart shows the overall trend in senior global insurance hires since January 2021. It shows that monthly appointments have been holding steady within a range of 75 – 95 since September last year. The peaks and dips seen in previous months have balanced out over a longer timescale.  image.png 72.26 KBGlobal senior insurance hires by sub sector, April 2021 – April 2022Looking deeper at senior hiring trends by sub-sector, we can see that the number of appointments in the Non-life sector remained steady after a drop in March from its annual peak in February. Reinsurance and Brokers/Intermediaries continued to remain steady, while Life/Health dropped to zero from seven the month before:image.png 63.42 KBGender balance of senior global insurance hires, April 2022Of the new senior appointments we tracked last month, the average global gender split was 31% women and 69% men. Looking at the regions shows that, while the Americas saw the lowest proportion of female senior appointments at 25%, EMEA saw the highest at 38.1% (the highest proportion of female appointments in the region so far this year), while AsiaPAC sits in the middle, at 30%:image.png 49.95 KBTop 10 companies with the most new appointments in April 2022Here are the global insurance businesses who made the most senior appointments in April, with Willis Towers Watson clearly leading the pack:image.png 28.48 KBIf you would like to know more information about Sheffield Haworth's Insurance Practice, get in touch with Ben Johnson (b.johnson@sheffieldhaworth.com)https://www.sheffieldhaworth.com/financial-services/insurance/

How is Global current affairs affecting hiring activity?Global markets are still recovering from the aftermath of the Covid pandemic, but there are now rising concerns of the Ukraine and Russia conflict, which is causing ripple effects across world economies.Inflation fears, and energy price hikes are just a few repercussions of this new and potentially global conflict, but what about hiring activity?    TALNT tracks 100’s of moves a week across the international financial services, real assets, technology and energy industries. As we examine the overall trends of moves since 2021, it is no surprise that there may be a direct correlation of global crisis affecting the hiring market. image.png 78.47 KBJanuary of this year saw a strong 46% increase of moves from the previous month, a 10% increase change from January 2021, indicating considerable growth in hiring activity. However, February 2022 witnessed a significant decrease of 41% change in people moves activity, a much larger decline than the 28% decrease during the 2020 pandemic in comparison.Although the decline continues into this month, the software industry seems to be the first to show recovery in hiring, however with the uncertainty around the conflict, we may only be seeing the tip of the iceberg.Select TALNT Insights in your preferences to follow people moves trends and insights as they unfold in the coming months. 

The Top 10 Most Viewed People Moves in 2021.In the past year, TALNT has collected over 10 thousand people moves across the financial services, real assets, technology, energy & natural resources and consulting industries. Here are the Top 10 most viewed moves of the period.Intermediate Capital group hired a five-member team, which is led by Allan Marchington, Managing Director and Head of ICG life sciences. The team members included Toby Sykes, Simon Tate, Peter Kiener and Tracy Weightman, who all worked together at Bridge Valley Ventures. The team focus on equity investments. Read more... Goldman Sachs veteran Sheila Patel was hired by B Capital as Vice Chairman. She was previously chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management based in London and a member of the bank's investment management committee. Read more... Former Goldman Sachs Partner, Head of Consumer Wealth Management Operations, Stephanie Smith was hired by BlackRock as Chief Operating Officer of its alternatives business. She replaced Todd Slattery, who had been the COO since 2015 and shifted to the role of platform specialist. Read more... UK hedge fund, Gladstone Capital, hired James Coltman as Chief Operating Officer. Previously he was CFO at fintech firm Fnality International. Sumant Wahi was also tapped as a partner and sector head of technology. Nabil Bouras was hired as an analyst. Read more...Bank of America secured hires in the real estate banking sector. Tim Ryan joined as managing director and Joseph Kuk joined as a director. Tim spent around half a decade in CBRE in London, overseeing its investment banking business in UK and Europe. Kuk joined from Aura Group. Read more... Berenberg experienced four new hires to the investment banking and ECM teams. Dominik Baer joined from Lazard, as new head of investment banking for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Andreas Franzen was named head of ECM execution and structuring in continental Europe. Edouard Senlier was recruited into ECM execution, from BNP.  Joining from Mediobanca, Hugo Joyeux was hired into ECM origination. Read more...Goldman Sachs experienced the departure of Tom Leake, who was head of EMEA equity structuring and was based in London. He joined Goldman Sachs in 2017 from Deutsche Bank and was promoted to partner the following year. He has since joined Capstone as head of solutions. Read more...Barrenjoey sealed three new equity research hires. Andrew Adams joined from Credit Suisse, where he worked as an analyst. Tom Kierath came from Firetail Investments, where he was an investment analyst and Peter Marks was hired from Morgan Stanley. Read more New head of electronic trading and digital strategy at Barclays, Peter Ward, is responsible for driving the bank's BARX offering. He was hired from JP Morgan, where he served as global head of futures and options trading. Read more...Chris Perkins was hired as a Managing Partner, responsible for narrowing the divide in crypto investing and traditional equities at CoinFund. He came from Citigroup, where he was managing director, global co-head of the futures, clearing and foreign-exchange prime brokerage businesses. Read more...