Paris:
SCOR announces the appointment of Ian Kelly, currently Head of Investor Relations, as chief financial officer, with effect from October 2, 2020. Ian Kelly will join the group executive committee on this date.
He will succeed Mark Kociancic,who served as group chief financial officer since 2013, is leaving the group after 15 years to join Bermuda-based Everest Re Group.
Mark Kociancic has decided to pursue a new direction in his career, having successfully
Denis Kessler, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of SCOR, comments: “I am delighted that Ian Kelly is joining SCOR’s Executive Committee as CFO. His promotion bears witness to the depth of the Group’s talent pool. Ian has spent a large part of his career at SCOR. He knows the Group extremely well and has a strong command of the financial mechanisms of both Life and P&C (re)insurance. He has successfully fulfilled his role as head of investor relations and his great professionalism is appreciated by everyone he deals with. Along with the entire team, Ian will actively pursue all the finance transformation projects initiated by Mark, which rest in particular on the use of new technologies.Given Ian’s intellectual and human qualities, we are confident that he will be successful in this new key role. The Executive Committee and I look forward to working with Ian as part of his new responsibilities.