Swiss Re Shared Services (India) has appointed Alok Kumar as its head, the re-insurer said in a statement today. The appointment is effective from October 1, 2012.
He will succeed Paula Patel, who has been heading the company since May 2007.
Kumar joined Swiss Re in 2001 as a property pricing specialist in Calabasas, US and has worked in Zurich in Switzerland as a natural perils specialist. He also had assignments in Seoul in South Korea as a treaty underwriter before taking up responsibilities for the Cat Perils India Hub in 2007.
He became the head of risk management in March, 2011 and was working from Bangalore. Kumar has a bachelor of engineering degree from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee and a MS from Texas Tech University.