Aviva Life & Pensions Ireland has appointed Michelle Leahy as head of insurance operations, a newly created role for the company.<\/p>\n
Michelle Leahy will manage group protection, underwriting, income protection and life claims. She brings over 25 years’ experience leading pricing, underwriting and strategic insurance functions across Ireland and Europe.<\/p>\n
Michelle has held senior executive roles at Utmost Worldwide and Utmost Pan Europe (formerly Generali Pan Europe), where she has led corporate solutions, pricing and employee benefit functions.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Barry Cudmore, CEO of Aviva Life & Pensions Ireland, said: \u201cMichelle\u2019s depth of experience across group protection, underwriting and international insurance solutions will be instrumental as we continue to enhance outcomes for our customers and brokers.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0Earlier in her career, Michelle established strong foundations at Mercer, progressing through multiple roles across pensions, actuarial services, health and benefits, before later leading Group Risk business in Ireland.<\/p>\n
Michelle holds a BSc in Financial and Actuarial Mathematics from DCU and is a qualified financial adviser (QFA). She has completed the Irish Management Institute\u2019s AI for Financial Planning qualification and is currently undertaking the Institute of Directors\u2019 Chartered Director programme.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Aisling Kennedy has joined the Aviva board as an independent non-executive director, while also joining the audit and risk committees. A fellow of the Society of Actuaries in Ireland, she brings extensive insurance sector experience. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aviva Life & Pensions Ireland has appointed Michelle Leahy as head of insurance operations, a newly created role…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3703,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-440072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-appointments","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}