Ignite Specialty Risk launches Australian operations

Ignite Specialty Risk has established an Australian operation, appointing Lucinda Stormont-Sainsbury arsenic caput of Australian operations.

In a statement, Ignite said the enlargement follows a play of "sustained" planetary growth.

The institution provides litigation risk, taxation liability and contingent hazard security solutions crossed the UK, Europe and the US.

Stormont-Sainsbury brings 15 years of acquisition spanning underwriting, claims, backstage signifier and in-house security instrumentality roles.

Most recently, she served arsenic elder ineligible counsel astatine HDI Global, advising its branches crossed Australia, Dubai, Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand and Singapore.

Stormont-Sainsbury said: "This is an breathtaking accidental to articulation a concern with ambitious leadership, a wide imaginativeness and a specializer proposition that is good suited to the Australian market.

"Ignite has made a wide committedness to establishing a semipermanent beingness successful Australia, and I americium looking guardant to gathering beardown relationships crossed the broker and ineligible communities arsenic we make the business."

Stormont-Sainsbury volition beryllium based successful Sydney.

Ignite main underwriting serviceman David Green said: "Australia is an important strategical marketplace for Ignite and establishing our Australian operations marks a important milestone successful our planetary growth. We are making a semipermanent committedness to the marketplace by investing successful section enactment and gathering beardown relationships with brokers, ineligible advisers and strategical partners.

"We spot beardown request for our proven expertise and merchandise suite, and we are committed to supporting the marketplace with the expertise and work that person underpinned our occurrence internationally."

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