Commercial lines underwriting specialist Arista Insurance has strengthened its North East offering with a new appointment and promotion at its Leeds office, which opened last year. Adam Hirst joins as underwriter and Pamela O’Loughlin has been promoted to the role of senior fleet underwriter.
In his new role Adam will be responsible for commercial underwriting, developing broker accounts and helping to grow Arista’s operation in the North East. He will report to branch manager Neil Wormald. Prior to joining Arista, Adam was a commercial underwriter at Allianz Commercial, also in Leeds.
Pamela O’Loughlin has been with Arista for over 2 years. Her promotion is in recognition of her contribution to the successful launch of the Leeds office last year and her 11 years’ industry experience.
Chief executive Charles Earle commented: “This appointment and promotion supports Arista’s growth strategy and highlights our commitment to maintaining service excellence to brokers during a period of expansion. Arista is actively recruiting and developing talent to expand the business and broker access to decision makers with expert local knowledge.”
In April 2011 Arista announced its target for 2014 of achieving £120 million in gross written premiums.
