Shortlist announced for the Captive Review European Awards 2025

Captive Review has revealed the shortlist for its European Awards 2025 award categories, celebrating firms that have delivered outstanding performance, innovation, and service excellence across the captive insurance landscape.

The awards are designed to reward, celebrate and recognise those making waves in the European Captive insurance industry, the awards and serve to showcase top innovations and talent from across the sector.

The shortlisted individuals and companies are:

Individual Categories

Captive Risk Manager
Cyril Lelarge, Global Head of Insurance, Sanofi
Francesco Capraro, Reinsurance Captive Operations Manager, Sigurd Rück (Saipem’s captive)
François Beaume, SVP Risks and Insurance, Sonepar
Heiko Ditzel, Senior Director Risk Finance & Transfer, adidas AG (parent company)/adidas International Re dac (Captive)
Martin Smyth, Head of Insurable Risk, Group Insurable Risk, Jaguar Landrover
Matthias Helmbold, VP Global Risk Benefits, Health and Wellbeing at DHL
Robert Eigenheer, Chairman of the Board of Directors at SBB Insurance AG - the captive of the Swiss Federal Railways
Tracey Williams, Captive Interface Lead for bp and Director at Jupiter (bp’s captive)

Captive Service Professional of the Year

Adriana Scherzinger, Group Head of Captives, Zurich Insurance
David Vigier, Chief Commercial Officer & Head of Captives Strategy, HDI Global SE France
Marine Charbonnier, Head of Underwriting, Captives and Facultatives, APAC Europe, AXA XL
Neil Campbell, Consultant, Strategic Risk Solutions
Neil Moore, Team Leader & Senior Underwriter, Willis Towers Watson Management (Guernsey) Limited
Stephen Portelli, Regional Leader for Europe & IMEA Captive Solutions, Marsh
Thomas Keist, Chief Commercial Officer, SRS Altitude
Tom Nicholls, Customer Development Manager, Generali Employee Benefits Network

Emerging Talent

Caterina Robba, Senior Account Executive, Generali Employee Benefits
Evelin Hinestroza, VP Finance & Accounting, Marsh
Géraldine Bollinger, Head of Insurance, Emil Frey AG
Mariame Vasquez, CEO and Director, Helykon Group, S.A
Maxine Dekoning, Global Client Leader, Generali Employee Benefits Network (GEB)
Meryl Bermond, Business Developer Manager, Descartes Underwriting
Rodrigo Gebrim Doria, Head of the International Desk, Care Plus Part of Bupa

Company Categories

Accountancy, Audit and Tax Firm
EY
PWC
Forvis Mazars

Actuarial Firm

Barnett Waddingham
Dynamo Analytics | Psicle
PRS Prime Re Solutions
Strategic Risk Solutions
Tendanz
WTW

Excellence in Captive Broking & Advisory

Guy Carpenter
Howden
McGill & Partners
Wide IB
WTW

Captive Consultancy Firm

EY Luxembourg
Hylant
RISCS CWC
Strategic Risk Solutions
Sigma 7

Captive Launch of the Year

Jaguar Land Rover Insurance Company Limited
TDK Group (Strategic Risk Solutions)
Steel Plow Insurance Limited

Captive Manager Firm

Artex
Davies Group
Howden
Risk & Reinsurance Solutions
Strategic Risk Solutions
WTW

Captive Programme of the Year

AstraZeneca (Allianz, Munich Re and Swiss Re)
Jupiter Insurance Limited (WTW)
STMICROELECTRONICS Re S.A. (STReSA)
Knauf (Strategic Risk Solutions)
TenneT Reinsurance N.V. (McGill and Partners)

Employee Benefits Specialist Firm

Allianz Partners
Care Plus, Part of Bupa
Generali Employee Benefits Network
IGP
MAXIS Global Benefits Network

European Domicile

Guernsey
Isle of Man
Luxembourg
Malta

International Domicile

Bermuda
Cayman Islands
Hong Kong
Oklahoma
State of Hawaii
State of Vermont

Investment Firm

Mercer
Oppenheimer
Titan Wealth
W1M

Feasibility Study Firm

Aon Global Risk Consulting UK
EY
Hylant Global Captive Solutions
RISCS CWC
Risk & Reinsurance Solutions (2RS)

Fronting Partner Firm

Achmea
Allianz Commercial
AXA XL
Care Plus, Part of Bupa
Chubb
Descartes Underwriting
Generali Employee Benefits Network
HDI Global SE
MSIG EUROPE SE
RSA Europe

Legal Services Firm

Appleby
Ganado Advocates
Ogier

Technology Solution

Big Ticket
Delonia Software
Intersys
Noria
Reserv
Strategic Risk Solutions
Zurich Insurance Company

Third Party Administrator / Claims Specialist Firm

Charles Taylor
Crawford
Sedgwick

Underwriting Solution of the Year

Allianz Commercial - Alternative Risk Transfer
Allianz Partners - Virtual Captive Concept
Generali Global Corporate and Commercial
HDI Global
Jupiter Insurance Limited
SCOR
SRS Altitude
Swiss Re Corporate Solutions

There will be one winner and one highly commended entrant for each of the 20 categories who will be decided by our independent panel of expert judges. In order to ensure each category is judged fairly, not all judges will judge every category. A select panel is chosen for each category.

The 2025 judging panel includes -

Stephane Pardo, Head of P&C, EB, and ReIns, Airbus
Laurent Nihoul, Group Head of Insurance, ArcelorMittal
Kevin Steed, Head of Group Insurance, AstraZeneca
Marine Charbonnier, Head of Underwriting, Captives and Facultatives, APAC Europe, AXA XL
Matthew McEwan, Director, Risk Management, Coca-Cola Europacific Partners PLC
Matthias Helmbold, VP Global Risk Benefits, Health and Wellbeing, DHL Group
Philippe Cotelle, FERMA & AMRAE Board Member, Head of Insurance Risk Management, Airbus Defence & Space
Rogier Bouwman, Director Global Pensions and Benefits, Heineken
Ersida Ago, Head of Insurance, Orano
Santiago Gomez, Head Officer, PEMEX
Camel Sekkai, Group Insurance Director, Petit Forestier Group
Harald Schuster, Head of Corporate Insurance, Mercedes Benz
Carl Leeman, Chief Risk Officer, Katoen Natie International
Holger Kraus, Head of Insurance, Siemens
Bart Smets, Head of Insurance and Risk, Umicore
Tibor Boettcher, CEO and Executive Director, Volkswagen Insurance Company dac
Françoise Carli, CEO, Zakubo Consulting

The winners and highly commended entrants will be announced at a glittering evening awards ceremony on 4 November in Luxembourg held prior to the European Captive Forum on 5-6 November.

Tables at the awards ceremony are available to purchase. Contact Will Sutton wsutton@newtonmedia.co.uk for further details.

For table and partnership enquiries contact: Will Sutton, Commercial Manager, Captive Review at: wsutton@newtonmedia.co.uk

For General enquiries contact: Gina Baillie, Senior Researcher & Producer, Captive Review, at: gbaillie@newtonmedia.co.uk

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