AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd., a provider of specialty lines insurance and treaty reinsurance, has named Peter Wilson as president of U.S. insurance. Wilson, who brings with three decades of industry experience, will be responsible for the management of all of the company’s U.S. insurance operations, including the professional lines and P&C divisions. He will join AXIS in May and will be based in the company’s New York office, reporting to AXIS Insurance CEO, Jack Gressier.
AXIS says Wilson most recently served as president and COO for CNA Specialty, a unit of CNA Financial Corp., serving in a number of leadership positions with management responsibility for a diverse group of business units. Prior to CNA, he served as an EVP at AIG, where he managed AIG’s commercial public D&O business in the United States.
