Thomas Miller Specialty, in partnership with HDI Global SE, launches marine and energy offshore capability in Singapore
Thomas Miller Specialty, a global insurance provider across a number of sectors including marine and offshore, has recruited senior marine and energy underwriter Mark Nunn as its specialist offshore underwriter in Asia Pacific.
An insurance specialist with extensive knowledge of the offshore market in Asia Pacific, Mark has worked in Singapore since 2013. Mark joins from Lloyd’s syndicate Markel International where he worked as an energy underwriter having previously worked at Marsh as a broker and client executive in both Singapore and London.
Mark is the first employee of Thomas Miller Specialty (Singapore) PTE Limited as the company looks to grow in this important market and will be based in HDI Global’s Singapore office. The appointment will enable Thomas Miller Specialty Offshore (TMSO), in collaboration with HDI Global Singapore, to offer a comprehensive risk transfer solution for Energy clients in the region.
Bernt Hellman, Managing Director, Offshore Marine & Energy, Thomas Miller Specialty, says:
“We believe it’s important to establish a permanent presence in Singapore and for the APAC region. Mark joins us as an established and trusted underwriter in the Singapore market and demonstrates our commitment to provide a strong local Offshore Marine and Energy product. We are really excited and very proud of this latest development that reinforces our relationship with HDI Global and HDI Global Specialty, which continues to go from strength to strength since 2016.”
Graham Silton, Managing Director and Principal Officer, HDI Global SE Singapore, says:
“We are very excited to launch this joint product offering and believe the Thomas Miller Specialty appointment of Mark Nunn will drive this initiative forward. Mark will work closely with Mark Mackay, Head of Energy, Eastern Region of HDI Global SE Singapore, to promote and provide tailormade account solutions for Onshore and Offshore products to our mutual clients and brokers in the APAC region.”
Thomas Miller Specialty moves its claims operations to Newcastle offices
Following a strategic review of its operations in Hamburg, Thomas Miller Specialty (TMS), a global insurance provider across a number of sectors including marine and offshore, has announced it has moved its claims operations to the Thomas Miller Claims Management (TMCM) offices in Newcastle with immediate effect.
TMCM is a marine risk management consultancy providing marine claims handling, adjusting and operational support services to its clients in Thomas Miller’s heartland sectors of marine, transport and general commercial business.
In addition, Hamburg is now fully operational as the European hub for all TMS businesses. The management team at TMS is developing an ambitious growth plan across the UK and Europe, with Hamburg as a key focal point alongside the concentration of claims handling in Newcastle. A further aspect of this strategy includes the founding of the London branch of Thomas Miller GmbH as an important additional part of the company’s Brexit strategy.
Hugo Wynn-Williams, Chairman, Thomas Miller, says: “From a strategic point of view, it makes commercial sense to integrate our claims handling function for Hamburg within the larger claims function in Newcastle. We are also focussing our efforts on making the Hamburg office an integral part of Thomas Miller Specialty and establishing it as its European centre post-Brexit.
“The Group’s European proposition has developed strongly since we opened the Rotterdam office in 2019 in readiness for the longer term implications of Brexit. We have a growing presence throughout Europe and now have 51 employees spread across its regional bases in Rotterdam, Hamburg, Piraeus and Limassol.”