Regional underwriting structure

We’re sharing new leadership roles in our Asia Pacific underwriting structure across Singapore, Hong Kong, China, India, Malaysia and Australia.

As Liberty unites our retail, commercial and specialty operations, these regional leaders (all internal appointments) will drive coordinated underwriting excellence across the region under Mike Abdallah, who continues as CUO of Liberty International Insurance Asia Pacific.

• Marcus Thomas is relocating from Sydney to Hong Kong as the CUO Commercial Asia and CUO Third Party Asia Pacific. Marcus will have product line direction and oversight for Casualty, Professional & Financial Risks, Cyber, Financial Risk Solutions, and Global Transactional Solutions across all Asia Pacific markets.
• Brett Gardiner will be CUO Australia and CUO First Party Asia Pacific. Brett will have product line direction and oversight for Property, Energy, Construction, Terrorism, and Marine across all Asia Pacific markets.
• Shawn Anderson is the Chief Product Officer for Auto, Accident & Health and personal lines for Asia.
• Ben Hissey leads specialty products and has product line direction and oversight for Accident & Health (in Australia) Crisis Management, Agriculture & Weather, Surety, Liberty Portfolio Solutions, regional Reinsurance, and underwriting enablement.
• Angelo Maniatis will lead Liberty’s risk engineering function across Asia Pacific.

These new appointments reflect our focus on being stronger together in Asia Pacific.