Cytora Announces Expanded Advisory Board With Board Member From Rothesay Life Joining

Cytora has announced the expansion of its global advisory board in welcoming financial services veteran Ed Giera. The move is designed to support Cytora’s global growth.

Ed Giera has over 40 years’ experience as an executive and non-executive director in international capital markets and risk management. Ed currently serves as Chair of the Board Risk Committee and Non-Executive Director for Rothesay Life plc, a leading UK pension insurance company, where he has been a director since 2021.

Ed previously served as Senior Independent Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Board Risk Committee of Santander UK plc; and Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Board Audit & Risk Committee at Pension Insurance Corporation Group Limited. As an executive, Ed was Managing Director and Global Head of Pensions Risk Advisory, and formerly Head of Capital Markets for the EMEA Region, and Head of Acquisition Finance among other senior roles with the investment banking affiliate of JP Morgan Chase & Co.

The advisory board group consists of leaders across the Commercial and Specialty insurance consisting of Bronek Masojada, Chair of SiriusPoint and formerly CEO of Hiscox, Kelly Lyles, board member at Convex and Howden Group, Jeffrey Hayman, Chair of R&Q Insurance Holdings and former board member of Zurich Insurance Group, Emmanuel Clarke, Intact Speciality CEO and former CEO of PartnerRe, John Bruno, President of Xerox and former Group COO & CEO of Data & Analytic Services of Aon and Bill Bloom, former CIO at both The Hartford and Travelers, Thomas Huerlimann, board member of Hiscox and former CEO of Zurich Global Corporate, James Platt, Operating Partner at Trimstone and former Group COO Aon, Adrian Brown, former UK CEO RSA, Karen Green, board member of Miller Insurance Services, Hamilton Insurance Group and Phoenix Group Holdings, Laurent Rosseau, CEO of Guy Carpenter EMEA and former CEO Scor, Clive Buesnel, Managing Partner at IAP and former CEO Tysers and Alan Morgan, former senior partner at McKinsey and head of financial services.

Many members have been in executive positions leading brokers, insurance companies and reinsurers and as well as holding responsibility for large scale transformation programs. The appointments follow a period of significant growth for Cytora including recently announced partnerships with Chubb, Arch, Everest and Trans Re.

Ed Giera, Member of Cytora’s Advisory Board, said: “I’m tremendously excited about working with the Cytora team as they accelerate the digitization of the insurance industry. I have supported the transformation through digitization of financial markets across banking, asset management and broader financial services and there is no doubt commercial insurance is on a similar accelerated trajectory”

Richard Hartley, CEO of Cytora, said: “Ed is a strategic and thoughtful financial services board member who will bring great value to the advisory board. The transformative opportunity presented by artificial intelligence is a board level priority and it is a complex area for brokers, insurance and reinsurance companies to navigate, operationalise at scale and achieve enduring outperformance. Ed will benefit our clients, partners and team with his strategic expertise and breadth of experience across financial services”