Andrew Kendrick
Senior Vice President, ACE Group
President, ACE European Group
Andrew Kendrick is President of ACE European Group. He is responsible for the company’s property and casualty (P&C), accident and health (A&H), life and specialty personal lines insurance operations in 19 countries and territories across the region. He is also responsible for ACE Global Markets, the company’s global wholesale business headquartered in London. Mr. Kendrick assumed his current role in 2004 and was appointed Senior Vice President, ACE Group, in March 2014.
Mr. Kendrick joined ACE in 1996 when the company acquired Ockham Underwriting Agency, bringing with him almost 20 years of insurance industry experience. Prior to his current role, he served as Division President, ACE Bermuda and, before that, as ACE's Director of Underwriting and Active Underwriter of Syndicate 2488 at Lloyd’s, which forms part of ACE Global Markets. Mr. Kendrick started his career at Sturge Syndicate 210 in 1978 and subsequently held various positions within the syndicates managed by Sturge Group and subsequently by Ockham Underwriting Agency.
Mr Kendrick is a well-known figure and speaker in the London market and European insurance industry. He has served as a non-executive director to the Lloyd’s Franchise Board since 2007. He has been a director of the London Market Association (LMA) since 2005, and was its Chairman for the 2006-2007 period. He was also a member of former UK Chancellor Gordon Brown’s London Insurance Market Review Group, tasked to help build London’s position as the number one wholesale market for global (re)insurance. Additionally, he has served as a non-executive director of reinsurer Russian Re since 2007.