What’s New: In Brief (October 27, 2008)

David Brosnan has been appointed CEO of ACE Canada, contingent upon obtaining a work permit from Citizenship and Immigration Canada.
Karen Barkley will now serve as COO of ACE Canada and president of ACE Canada’s property and casualty business, a release says. She has been with the company since 1992.
Brosnan has been with ACE since 2005 and has most recently serves as president of ACE Casualty Risk. Prior to that, he held a senior leadership role with Chubb Insurance Company of Europe.

Steve Pottle, a risk manager at York University, has accepted the role of president for the Risk and Insurance Management Society’s Ontario chapter (ORIMS).
Erin Magilton-Morneau, ORIMS’ immediate past president, resigned because she is “moving on to another chapter in her career which excludes her from continuing her role as president under the chapter by-laws,” an ORIMS release says.
Melissa Chrystian, Sun Life Financial, will assume the role of vice-president.