Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance Company (BHSI), announced yesterday that it has established a new office in Dublin and appointed Cormac McNamara as Property & Casualty Manager, BHSI Ireland.
McNamara spent the last six years at MS Amlin/Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Group, where he held a variety of underwriting positions, most recently Ireland Underwriting & Distribution Manager.
Before Mitsui Sumitomo, McNamara was Commercial Insurance Manager, UK Region and Ireland, at Chubb Insurance Company of Europe and held several other underwriting positions at Chubb prior to beginning his career at QBE Europe.
Berkshire Hathaway is part of the US company led by billionaire Warren Buffett. The new Dublin office is located at 49 Upper Mount Street, Dublin 2
Speaking this week, President of UK and Southern Europe Division at BHSI, Tom Bolt said, "Cormac will build our local team and lead our efforts to bring all of BHSI’s Southern European underwriting capabilities to Ireland. We are excited to further expand our geographic footprint in the region as we steadily grow our underwriting capabilities as well."
Source: www.businessworld.ie