Integro launches global insurance/reinsurance unit

Integro Ltd. announced the formation of an international insurance and reinsurance business unit, designed to offer unique worldwide insurance and reinsurance business capabilities for independent brokers and partners.
Based in London, its brokers will have access to the global markets without limitation, according to an Integro release.
Our plan is to develop an independent insurance and reinsurance alternative to what is currently available in the marketplace, said Roger Egan, Integros CEO.
Whether the subject is reinsurance or insurance, wholesale or direct, weve created a collaborative, flexible yet robust platform freeing our brokers to focus on serving clients without the organizational constraints and interference that are commonplace in todays broking business, Peter Garvey, Integro president and chief operating officer, said in a statement.
Concurrently, Integro announced the hiring of Julian Samengo-Turner and Ron Whyte, who will lead the new unit and join the board of Integro in the U.K., as well as Marcus Hopkins.
Samengo-Turner and Whyte formerly led Guy Carpenters global facultative reinsurance business unit and Hopkins was previously the head of Guy Carpenters U.K. facultative reinsurance operation.
Integro Ltd. is a New York-based insurance brokerage and risk management firm with offices in Toronto, London, Bermuda and Sweden.