Everest Group has named Katy Bradica (pictured above, left) as group chief actuary and Attila Kerényi (pictured above, right) as group chief risk officer, with both appointments effective in early 2026.
The roles sit on the executive leadership team as the company continues to build out its underwriting and risk oversight capabilities across reinsurance and specialty insurance.
Bradica will lead Everest’s global actuarial function, with responsibility for pricing, reserving and analytics across all operations. She will report to Everest president and CEO Jim Williamson and will shape the company’s actuarial strategy, including technical standards, capital deployment and the use of data in underwriting and portfolio management.
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“Katy and Attila are exceptional leaders whose global experience, technical acumen, and strategic vision reflect the caliber of talent Everest continues to attract,” Williamson said.
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Bradica has 25 years of actuarial experience spanning commercial and reinsurance markets. Most recently, she was group chief pricing actuary and head of portfolio management at AXA, where she worked on analytics capabilities, technical pricing and an enterprise-wide portfolio management framework across multiple markets.
She previously held senior actuarial posts at AXA XL and AIG, including serving as chief pricing actuary for AXA XL’s global insurance and reinsurance divisions, overseeing pricing strategy and leading transformation programs. Bradica is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society and a member of the American Academy of Actuaries.
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Kerényi will oversee Everest’s global enterprise risk management function and will report to the group CFO. His remit will include risk strategy, governance and capital resilience across the firm’s businesses.
Kerényi has more than 25 years of experience in risk management, underwriting, asset management and corporate strategy in financial services. He most recently served as chief risk officer for Swiss Re’s property and casualty reinsurance business, where he had responsibility for insurance and operational risk oversight, actuarial reserving and regulatory affairs across Swiss Re Group.
The new actuarial and risk leadership comes at a time when Everest is navigating earnings volatility, including Q3 2025 net income of US$255 million, down from US$509 million a year earlier, and an attritional combined ratio of 88.8%.
The appointments of Bradica and Kerényi also align with a broader refresh of Everest’s senior finance and risk bench, including the planned arrival of Elias Habayeb as executive vice president and group CFO around May 1, 2026, following the retirement of current CFO Mark Kociancic.
