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Esme Gould will be Zurich UK’s new head of captives, effective from 1 April, leading a team of six captive underwriters to develop and grow new and existing captive programmes. Gould’s appointment follows Emma Sansom’s move into Zurich’s group head of captives position at the start of the year.

Experienced captive lawyers Joe Holahan and Tony Roehl have joined BakerHostetler from Morris Manning & Martin. Holahan and Roehl are joined by fellow partner Lori Bibb, four associates, a counsel, a paralegal and a legal assistant.

Adele Gale, director and group head of ILS at Robus Risk Services, has been appointed the new chair of the Guernsey International Insurance Association (GIIA).

Aurélien Schwachtgen will join Aon Global Risk Consulting in April as director of client solutions, boosting the broker and captive manager’s presence in the French market and across the region.

Managing general agent Xchange Benefits, owned by Ambac Financial Group, has appointed New Jersey-based Christopher LaDelfa as senior vice president and head of its captive solutions unit.

Atlanta-based Doug Butler, formerly of Moore Ingram Johnson & Steele, LLP, has joined Womble Bond Dickinson as partner in the firm’s corporate and securities group. Butler will provide outside counsel...

Strategic Risk Solutions (SRS) has appointed Mark Morris as a managing director within the SRS advisers group. He joins SRS from Lockton Companies, where he spent more than 20 years working with clients to structure programs on the most efficient economic basis, considering tax, cash flow, collateral, and accounting considerations.

MAXIS Global Benefits Network (MAXIS GBN), the international employee benefits joint venture between MetLife and AXA, has appointed Lorraine Fernandes as chief legal officer.