2015 50 Bermuda:Re/insurance+ILS
high achiever and being passionate about what I do. When I bind a new piece of business, I am on a high. If I lose an account, a low. Being awarded 2015 Risk & Insurance Power Broker was huge for me. To win this meant that my clients had supported me. Serving my clients and getting them the best possible deal is what I love to do and what I do best
What has been the biggest challenge you have encountered?
I have reached a 25-year milestone at Aon Bermuda and thankfully, the insurance industry has changed for women during that time. It’s not always been easy for women in this industry. It made me work harder and more determined to succeed.
Annie Sousa
Job: Senior vice president, healthcare Company: Aon Bermuda Career path
2000—Senior vice president, healthcare, Aon Bermuda 1992—Brokerage division, Aon Bermuda 1989—Captives team, Frank B. Hall (Bermuda)
Annie Sousa heads up a team within Aon Bermuda, dedicated to the healthcare industry. She is also part of a team that coordinates multi-line integrated programmes, captive reinsurance and financial or finite insurance programmes.
Sousa joined Aon (Bermuda) in 1989 on the captive side of the Frank
B. Hall Bermuda operations. She joined the brokerage division in 1992 placing excess general liability for large, Fortune 1000 clients, with a large and varied book of business. In 2000, she became responsible for the placement of all healthcare risks that are placed into the Bermuda markets. These risks, include (but are not limited to) for profit and not for profit multi-hospital systems, university teaching hospitals, long- term healthcare, assisted living facilities, medical malpractice, hospital physicians liability, managed care E&O, pharmacies and medical product manufacturers.
Why did you choose to work in this industry initially?
Like most people of my generation, I didn’t choose to work in the industry, I just fell into it. I moved to Bermuda in 1986 and there weren’t many job choices. I applied to Aon as a secretary in the captive division and they saw something in me. If there were colleges offering degrees in insurance, I didn’t know about them. I was one of those people whose eyes would glaze over at the mere mention of insurance. In fact insurance was a dirty word to me. When I was 17, I wanted a car. I got it, an old one and the annual insurance premium cost more than the car did!
What has been the highlight of your career so far? My job is full of highs and lows. I put my success down to being a
If you had chosen a different profession/career path, what would it have been?
Something to do with protecting the world we live in. I am passionate about the environment, our planet, and the animals that live in it and always have been. Now we know “real time” what is happening. Animals on the brink of extinction, mass de-forestation, pollution, over-fishing, the list goes on. ■
“I have reached a 25-year milestone at Aon Bermuda and thankfully, the insurance industry has changed for women during that time.”
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