Commercial insurer IGI names first CTO

International General Insurance Holdings Limited, an international specialty commercial insurer and reinsurer, has appointed Nasser Zagha its first CTO

Zagha is charged with leveraging technology to enhance IGI’s overall business capabilities and implementing an advanged digital strategy. He last was at the Bank of Jordan, where he was head of IT; Zagha also has worked at Bank of America in high-level tech roles.

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He will be based in the company's Amman, Jordan office.

“At IGI we have made significant investments to future-proof the business," says Hatem Jabsheh, IGI’s COO, to whom Zagha will report. "Earlier this year we implemented a ground-breaking project to modernise our risk, capital and actuarial modelling capabilities. Technology is at the very heart of our business, and I look forward to working with Nasser to implement the best emerging technologies to help improve the service we deliver to our clients and brokers.”

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