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Ecclesiastical appoints Matthews as new Risk Management Director
15 October 2014 – Specialist insurance group Ecclesiastical has this week appointed Mark Matthews,
FIRM, AIOSH, ACII, Chartered Insurer into the role of Risk Management Director in its UK general
insurance business. In his new role, Mark will report to Ecclesiastical’s Deputy Group Chief Executive
and UK Managing Director, Jacinta Whyte.
Mark joins Ecclesiastical from Zurich where he most recently held the role of Head of Risk Engineering.
With more than 32 years’ experience in the UK insurance industry, Mark began his career at
Commercial Union Assurance and spent the first seven years of his career in the commercial lines
underwriting arena. Mark has spent the last 25 years of his career with Zurich in a number of key
leadership and risk engineering roles.
His appointment as a member of the UK leadership underlines the vital role that the risk management
function plays in the delivery of expertise and service to the company’s customers. It also builds on the
company’s surveying and risk control capability, moving this vital function towards providing an
enhanced risk management service for customers.
Commenting on Mark’s appointment, Ecclesiastical’s Deputy Group Chief Executive and UK Managing
Director Jacinta Whyte said: “Mark’s appointment as a key member of our UK General Insurance
leadership team underlines the vital role we believe the risk management function plays in the delivery
of expertise and service to our customers. Our in-house risk control and valuation teams are a real
differentiator for us in the UK market. Their unrivalled expertise in our specialist sectors is highly soughtafter and valued by our customers. I am confident that this combination of an existing strong team and a
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new Director with extensive knowledge and experience in the area of risk management will greatly
benefit our existing and new customers.”
Mark Matthews added: “I am delighted to be heading up a risk function that already has such an
excellent reputation for specialist expertise in its chosen market segments and I am very much looking
forward to building upon this strong platform to develop the depth and breadth of our technical capability
and customer proposition even further.”
Mark joined Ecclesiastical on 6 October 2014.
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About Ecclesiastical
Owned by a registered charity, Allchurches Trust, Ecclesiastical is a unique financial services
organisation. With its main operations and headquarters in the UK, Ecclesiastical also operates in
Australia, Canada and Ireland.
Ecclesiastical is a specialist insurer of charities, the education and faith sectors, heritage buildings and
fine art.
Founded in 1887 to provide insurance for the Anglican Church, the company now offers a wide range of
commercial insurances, as well as home insurance, selling through brokers and directly.
Ecclesiastical also offers a range of ethically screened investment funds through its award-winning
investment management business, Ecclesiastical Investment Management.
Ecclesiastical is one of UK’s Top Company Donors to Charity according to the 2013/2014 UK Guide to
Company Giving.
Ecclesiastical is the winner of the 2013 and 2014 UK Claims Awards and the 2013 British Insurance
Awards.
Ecclesiastical’s Group vision, launched in January 2014, states that the Group intends to give £50m to
charity between 2014-2016. To date the company has donated or committed to donate a total of
£15.5m towards the £50m goal.
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