Jack Gressier

Jack is the former Chief Executive Officer of AXIS Insurance and former Chief Operations Officer of Axis Capital Holdings, the global insurer and reinsurer with c.$5bn revenues and total assets in excess of $20bn.

Jack has nearly thirty years’ experience in the insurance industry. He served as an underwriter at Charman Underwriting Agencies from 1989 until 1998, when ACE Limited acquired it.

At ACE, Jack served as Deputy Underwriter of Syndicates 488/2488, Director of ACE Global Markets Underwriting Limited, Director of Marine and Specialty Lines for Syndicate 2488 and a member of ACE Global Markets Executive Underwriting Committee.  In February 2001, Jack was appointed Joint Active Underwriter of Syndicate 2488 and director of the ACE Agency Board, where he served until joining AXIS in 2002.

Jack had management responsibility for AXIS Capital’s international insurance operations from 2002 and all insurance operations from 2007 onwards.