AXIS promotes Gonzalez to Deputy Global Head of Ceded Re

AXIS Capital, the Bermuda headquartered global insurance and reinsurance company, has promoted Inmaculada Gonzalez to have global reinsurance buying responsibilities for the group, in the role of Deputy Global Head of Ceded Reinsurance.

Gonzalez was most recently the Head of Ceded Reinsurance Placements, US at AXIS, a position she had held since joining the company in July 2019.

This promotion will see Gonzalez taking a more global role on reinsurance and retrocession buying for AXIS, and the company said she will help to advance AXIS’ ceded reinsurance strategic priorities, while driving best practices in governance and compliance on outwards reinsurance and retro placements.

Gonzalez has worked in ceded reinsurance roles since 2002, but her career in the insurance market goes back to 1984 when she joined broker Marsh in New York.

With time spent working at Constitution, Great Lakes, Winterthur and Partner Re in underwriting roles, Gonzalez became a ceded reinsurance manager at QBE North America in 2002 and by 2010 was that firms Head of Ceded Reinsurance for North America.

In 2015, she moved to Miami and led ceded reinsurance for the Latin America region for QBE Insurance.

Following that role, Gonzalez became a Senior Ceded Reinsurance Officer for AIG based in New York in 2017, where she worked until moving to AXIS in 2019.