Chubb announced the appointment of Chris Collins as Head of Airline for Chubb Global Markets, the company's London Market wholesale and specialty business including its Lloyd's platform. In this role, Collins will be responsible for leading the development and management of the CGM Airline portfolio. He will be based in London and report to Simon Abbott, Product Head Aviation for CGM.

The appointment will be effective from July. Collins joins Chubb from AIG where he was International Head of Airline and Deductible since March 2022. Previously he was the insurer's UK Head of Aerospace for three years.

Collins has more than 25 years' experience in aviation insurance, working on both the broker and insurer side in a variety of roles. This latest appointment is another step in the wider growth and development of the Aviation team within CGM which also announced the hire of Olivia Clark as General Aviation Underwriter. She was previously Aviation and Space Underwriting Analyst at Nexus Group.

Her appointment is effective in June. Clark joins Martin Audis, whose role as Senior Underwriter General Aviation was announced last August.