Senior staff changes at Aviva Canada

Aviva Canada is continuing to recruit new members to its executive team, following the appointment earlier this year of Maurice Tulloch as its CEO.
James Russell has been appointed as Aviva Canada’s chief underwriting officer.
Russell has held several executive roles in corporate actuarial, operational pricing and analysis since joining the company in 2001. Most recently, he was senior vice president of underwriting.
He will be responsible for leading the company’s underwriting and pricing strategy, customer propositions and product management.
Greg Dunn has been appointed to the newly created role of chief risk officer. Dunn has held numerous senior roles at Aviva and has operational, actuarial and technical experience.
Esther Winter has been appointed to senior vice president of human resources. She has more than 20 years of experience in change management and organization design, employee relations, reward, internal communications and culture embedding. She was most recently HR director for IT and operations in Aviva’s European operations.
“This is a dynamic and skilled team of leaders who will take Aviva forward as a dominant player in the Canadian Property and Casualty market,” Aviva Canada president and CEO said in a release.
Bob Fitzgerald, executive vice president and chief marketing and underwriting officer, will be leaving Aviva effective Mar. 1, 2010.