Consilium swoops on Ed Broking for cyber-interested financial lines specialists

Broker Consilium, which is part of the Aventum Group, has appointed six financial lines specialists from Ed Broking. 

The new appointments will join Consilium’s Professional Executive Risks team, managing professional & financial lines and cyber insurance globally for direct policyholder clients and retail and wholesale broking partners.

Neal Hughes and Nick Bachmann have been appointed managing partners. They were previously divisional directors at Ed. 

Josh Plummer has been appointed a partner at Consilium. He was previously a senior broker producer at Ed Broking.

Lee Rogalski, also a former senior broker at Ed, will join Consilium as an associate partner.

In addition, Duncan Childs, wording advisory manager at Ed, and Alex Atkinson, a divisional director at Ed have both been appointed partners at Consilium.

Josh Plummer, one of the new partners at Consilium, said: “I’m excited to be joining Consilium on its journey to be one of the best specialty lines international insurance brokers in the market. Consilium is built on a platform that is far ahead of its competitors, digitalising client experience as well as products, whilst also supported by in-house claims and expert legally trained wording and advocacy services.

“Drawing on the capabilities of the Aventum group, we’re more advanced in expertise, data and actuarial capability than any other broker, regardless of size.  As brokers, our knowledge, expertise and service is key – we are part of the ecosystems of the communities we serve.  With this team and with Aventum behind us I look forward to taking our client services to a new level. Exciting times indeed.”

David Bearman, Aventum’s chief executive officer, said: “I’m very excited to welcome these latest appointments to our ranks.  We now easily have the most experienced broking team working in the international financial centres and the investment management community. The team’s combined leadership skills and particular expertise in this market, together with our inhouse legal and exciting new actuarial capabilities, makes Consilium a world leader now in global financial lines broking.”