BMS makes trio of senior hires to form new energy division
BMS Group Limited (“BMS”), the independent specialist insurance and reinsurance broker, today announces the formation of a new energy division with the appointment of three senior energy brokers.
Leading industry figures James Chicken and Charlie Bowring become managing director and chairman of the new division respectively, and Sebastian Graham joins as a director.
James Chicken joins from Price Forbes where, as a director, he has spent the last 15 years specialising in power & utilities. He is a proven leader and producer with extensive experience in the global energy market. As leader of Price Forbes’ downstream energy, power and renewables practice he developed and managed a global wholesale account heavily focussed on the US. In recent years Chicken expanded the geographic footprint of the account beyond the US to EMEA and Asia Pacific markets.
Charlie Bowring has been in the insurance markets for over 40 years and has, for the last 20, specialised in the downstream energy and power markets. He began his career as a broker with CT Bowring Reinsurance Brokers, worked in London and New York with Marsh McLennan, was a founder member of Agnew, Higgins & Pickering and has, since 2010, been a director of Price Forbes.
Sebastian Graham gained his master’s degree in mechanical engineering in 2009 and joins from Miller Insurance Services where he specialised in power & utilities, renewable energy, midstream and downstream energy.
The division will report to Ian Gormley, board director of BMS Group and the three appointees will join upon completion of contractual obligations.
Ian Gormley, director of BMS Group said: “BMS has an established presence in the energy reinsurance market and we have had ambitions to make the logical step towards the direct energy markets for some time, but were determined to do so only with the right people. BMS’s reputation for independence has been a key factor in our ability to attract three of the market’s most respected professionals to our team. I look forward to welcoming them and working together as we build this new division, which will be heavily focussed on US and international growth.”
Nick Cook, chief executive officer of BMS Group added: “The development of a new energy division led by some of the market’s leading practitioners is a strategic investment for BMS as we continue to achieve significant growth in our core markets in the US and internationally. We fully expect the division to expand in the relatively near term as we invest further to bring additional expertise on board for the benefit of our growing client base.”
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BMS Group Limited, the UK headquartered broking arm of Minova Insurance, is a leading independent specialist insurance broker with teams of experts in the fields of reinsurance, wholesale and direct insurance. For more than 30 years, BMS has provided comprehensive, customised solutions in the fields of wholesale, reinsurance and direct insurance, and capital advisory. Today, this experience and expertise, served with a spirit of creativity, allows BMS to offer a full range of integrated services. Designing individual, tailored solutions makes BMS the risk and capital management advisor clients want to work with time and again.
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