100 influential women in re/insurance


“The highlight of my career so far was being promoted to chief underwriting officer of Lancashire UK, and being invited to join the board. It finally felt as if the years of graft had paid off.”


Name:


Hayley Johnston


Company: Lancashire Job:


Chief underwriting officer and reinsurance manager


Timeline: 2014—Chief underwriting officer, Lancashire 2011—Deputy chief underwriting officer, Lancashire Insurance 2011 to date— Reinsurance manager, Lancashire


2007—Underwriting team, marine and aviation, Lancashire


2002—Underwriting manager and outwards reinsurance manager, Europe, Axis Specialty Europe


Hayley Johnston joined Lancashire in September 2007 as a member of the underwriting team. In May 2014 she was appointed chief underwriting officer for Lancashire Insurance (UK), in addition to her outwards reinsurance manager role. Previously she was responsible for the underwriting of the marine and aviation accounts and from May 2011 acted as the deputy chief underwriting officer for Lancashire Insurance (UK). Johnston previously worked for AXIS Specialty Europe where she was the underwriting manager and outwards reinsurance manager for its European headquarters based in Dublin, Ireland.


Why did you choose to work in this industry initially? In all honesty I did not specifically choose this industry—I knew I wanted to be in financial services, so started off in the claims department for a small Lloyd’s syndicate, where I developed an interest in the industry, found myself in the right place at the right time, and the rest is history.


What has been the highlight of your career so far? The highlight of my career so far was being promoted to chief underwriting officer of Lancashire UK, and being invited to join the board. It finally felt as if the years of graft had paid off.


56 | INTELLIGENT INSURER | 2015 What has been the biggest challenge you have


encountered? The biggest challenge I have encountered professionally was trying to renew a property cat reinsurance programme, pretty much immediately post Hurricane Katrina. We got there in the end, and it was then that I fully appreciated the value of long standing relationships with the traditional markets.


If you had chosen a different profession/career path, what would it have been? I would have been a lawyer.


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