Northbridge Insurance announces leadership for Quebec region
Jean-Francois Béliveau is joining the Northbridge Insurance team as Executive Vice-President,Quebec, effective October 3, 2011.
Béliveau joins Northbridge from AXA Insurance where he led Commercial Lines since 2005.
“Jean-Francois joins our group at a very exciting time,” said Fabian Richenberger, Northbridge Insurance president.
In June, Northbridge announced that the existing subsidiaries of Lombard, Markel and Commonwealth – would be operating under one brand – Northbridge – at the beginning of 2012.
“In his new role, Jean-François will be responsible for developing growth strategies for our business inQuebecand to create strong relationships with our key brokers partners to address the needs of our mutual customers in a pro-active and competent manner,” Richenberger added.
Marc Duguay has also been promoted to Vice-President of Underwriting at Northbridge. Richard Lapierre, who announced his retirement plans earlier this year, will support Jean-Francois and Marc in the transition into their expanded roles and then retire by year-end.
