Compre Group Holdings, the Bermuda-domiciled specialty reinsurance group, has appointed Graham Taylor (pictured) as managing director of underwriting, effective immediately.
Taylor will report to chief underwriting officer Rachel Bardon. He will lead the group's retrospective reinsurance activities and oversee execution of new transactions across the portfolio.
Taylor joins David Quinn and Zameer Mitha on Compre's senior underwriting leadership team. The team supports the group's capital solutions platform.
Taylor brings more than 20 years of legacy and transactional experience to the role. He joins from Catalina Re, where he served as head of M&A.
At Catalina Re, Taylor worked on the company's global expansion and later its restructuring. He completed corporate transactions and reinsurance deals. These included high-value acquisitions and disposals.
Taylor previously spent nearly 15 years at Enstar Group. He was most recently senior vice president of M&A at the firm. He led transactions across multiple jurisdictions that supported the company's growth strategy.
Taylor's appointment follows a similar hire in February, when Compre named former Enstar executive David Atkins as deputy CEO. That appointment came after Compre reported a US$128.5 million net loss for 2024, a reversal from a US$279.4 million profit in 2023. Global deal volume fell 18% year on year over the same period.
Taylor's remit will include transactions similar to Compre's recent £250 million adverse development cover with a European reinsurer. The deal covered motor, engineering, and liability reserves. PwC's September 2025 run-off survey put European legacy reserves at US$367 billion, within a global run-off market exceeding US$1.129 trillion.
Quinn, Taylor's fellow underwriting leader at Compre, recently described reserve risk transfer as increasingly strategic rather than a "cleanup exercise" for discontinued books. He cited PwC's 2025 Global Insurance Run-Off Survey, which recorded 33 publicly disclosed non-life run-off transactions in 2024 covering an estimated US$6.6 billion in gross liabilities.
Bardon said Taylor's background in deal origination and execution would support the growth of Compre's underwriting platform. She said his experience would add to the group's capacity to structure transactions for clients.
Taylor said his work will focus on retrospective business, or traditional legacy transactions. He added that he will also support "Compre's work in meeting demand for capital-optimisation-focused reinsurance solutions."
The appointment adds M&A and deal-execution experience to Compre's underwriting team. It comes as the group continues to pursue legacy and capital-solutions transactions across its portfolio.
