Gallagher Re has appointed Carlos Grijalva Ortega as executive director and head of cyber, APAC, the reinsurance brokerage has announced.
The appointment places Grijalva Ortega at the helm of Gallagher Re’s cyber operations across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, a market that has seen growing demand for specialized reinsurance coverage amid an increasing volume of cyber threats targeting businesses and governments.
Grijalva Ortega joins Gallagher Re from WTW, where he spent nearly three years in progressively senior roles within the APAC cyber insurance market, according to his LinkedIn profile. Most recently, he served as head of cyber sales, Asia, from November 2025 to May 2026. Prior to that, he held the positions of cyber leader for Hong Kong and Greater China and cyber lead for Hong Kong, dating back to July 2023.
Before joining WTW, Grijalva Ortega served as head of insurance for Ecuador and Colombia at Betterfly from June 2022 to August 2023. He also spent more than four years at Generali in Hong Kong, where he held underwriting and management roles in financial lines within the Global Corporate and Commercial division. Earlier in his career, he worked at Chubb in Quito, Ecuador, as a financial lines submanager, where his responsibilities included underwriting analysis across directors and officers liability, professional indemnity, and reinsurance products.
In his new role, Grijalva Ortega is expected to work alongside Gallagher Re’s APAC regional teams and the firm’s global cyber unit. The company said he will also coordinate with colleagues across the broader Gallagher organization as part of an effort to expand cyber capabilities across the value chain in the region.
The appointment comes as Gallagher Re moves to strengthen its foothold in APAC’s cyber reinsurance space. In November, the firm launched a facility framework designed to align growing regional demand for cyber reinsurance with global capacity, covering market segments from personal lines to large enterprises. The framework accommodates multiple reinsurance structures, including facultative and treaty arrangements, as well as products such as technology errors and omissions and cyber property damage.
