As the specialty insurer works to become more modern, American Modern’s CEO is settling into his home in America—the latest stop in a 20-plus-year journey that has taken him around the world to lead other divisions of Munich Re.

A civil engineer by education, after a few years working in the design field, Andreas Kleiner joined Munich Re Group back in 1993 in an industrial insurance role doing loss‑control engineering, he reported. Rising through the ranks, the next step was a functional move (into underwriting) and a geographic one (from Munich to Singapore). In Kleiner’s last role in Singapore, comparable to a chief operating officer, he oversaw IT, risk management, strategic planning, corporate communications, HR and other activities.