Four significant leadership appointments have been announced across the insurance sector.
Generali has appointed Luca Cetrano (pictured, left) as group chief investment officer, effective June 1, 2026. The CIO role will be central to managing the group's own insurance portfolio allocations as that strategic repositioning progresses.
Cetrano first joined Generali Investments in 2012 and has held roles of increasing seniority since, most recently overseeing portfolio construction, tactical asset allocation, and the group's holding investments portfolio.
The appointment comes as Generali pursues a significant expansion of its asset management business. The group has been in discussions with Natixis Investment Managers over a proposed joint venture that would create a combined entity managing in excess of €1.8 trillion in assets, which would rank among the largest asset managers in Europe by revenue.
Specialty insurer Fortegra has appointed Mark Rattner (pictured, centre) as president.
Rattner, who previously served as executive vice president and chief underwriting officer for insurance, has been with Fortegra since 2016 and brings more than three decades of underwriting experience. Prior to Fortegra, he held senior roles at Houston International Insurance Group, where he established the professional liability division, and earlier served as chairman and chief executive of Professional Indemnity Agency, then a subsidiary of HCC Insurance Holdings.
The appointment comes shortly after a major ownership transition.
South Korea's DB Insurance completed its $1.65 billion acquisition of Fortegra on May 29, 2026, in what was the largest purchase of a US insurer by a Korean non-life carrier. For 2024, Fortegra reported gross written premiums of $3.07 billion and net income of $140 million, and operates in all 50 US states and eight European countries, including the UK and Italy. Fortegra will continue to operate independently as a wholly owned subsidiary of DB Insurance, maintaining its existing leadership team and underwriting discipline.
Aon has appointed José María Navas (pictured, right) as chief claims officer for EMEA, effective immediately.
Navas brings nearly 25 years of experience with the firm, most recently leading claims operations in Spain, where he developed enhanced servicing capabilities for complex and large-scale losses and strengthened insurer relationships.
Navas will also support the broader rollout of Aon Claims Copilot, the firm's global claims platform combining data, analytics, and digital claims management tools, as part of a wider push to standardise and strengthen claims outcomes across the EMEA region.
The Insurance Fraud Bureau has appointed Colin Bushell, co-founder and director of Zebra Law, and Stephen Long, chief operating officer at Covéa Insurance, to its board of directors.
The IFB Board sets the organisation's strategic direction and represents its membership across the UK insurance sector.
Bushell brings close to two decades of experience in counter-fraud environments and supplier and customer relationship management. Long brings nearly 25 years of insurance industry experience spanning claims, IT, operations, and organisational transformation. He has served as a board director at Thatcham Research since 2023 and joined Covéa Insurance as a graduate trainee in 2001, progressing through a wide range of roles before being appointed COO in 2026.
The appointments come at a pivotal moment for the IFB. In October 2025, the bureau launched Connected to Protect, a five-year counter-fraud strategy designed to increase the quantity and quality of data held by the IFB, strengthen relationships across government, regulators, and international agencies, and deliver a unified technology platform bringing IFB datasets together in a single fraud investigation case management system.
The strategy is being pursued against a backdrop of sharply rising fraud volumes: the IFB recorded a 52% increase in detected ghost broking activity between 2022 and 2024, while the ABI reported £1.16 billion in fraudulent general insurance claims in 2024 alone.
