Chubb has expanded its commercial leadership team with the appointment of Ketan Vaidya as division president of North America Small Commercial Insurance.

Vaidya will report to John Lupica, vice chairman, Chubb Group and president of North America Insurance. He will also work closely with Chubb’s Digital Business teams with matrix reporting to Sean Ringsted, executive vice president, Chubb Group and chief digital business officer.

As part of this leadership expansion, Jeffrey Updyke has been appointed head of North America Lower Middle Market. He will report to Ben Rockwell, vice president, Chubb Group and division president, North America Middle Market.

Prior to joining Chubb, Vaidya served as chief digital transformation officer for Credit One Financial.

Updyke began his career with Chubb in 1991 as an excess casualty underwriter. Prior to this appointment, he served as division president of North America Small Business.

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Sompo International Holdings Ltd. has announced a strategic reorganization of its Insurance business. The following changes will be made effective April 4 to better support Sompo International’s insurance organization through the next phase of growth:

Michael Chang has been named global head of Customer and Distribution Management. In his new role, Chang will expand on the company’s customer focus and global key relationships and will report to James Shea, CEO, Sompo International.

Julian James will oversee the newly named EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) Region in addition to Commercial P&C oversight in Asia and Latin America and will continue to report to Chris Gallagher.

Daniel Neo will lead the Asia Pacific Region for all P&C Commercial and Consumer Insurance in the region and will report to James Shea.

Chris Sparro will oversee the newly created North America Region (Sompo North America), which will include all P/C Insurance in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Bermuda regions and will continue to report to Chris Gallagher.