John Darin has been appointed chief executive at Catalina General, the Bermudian-domiciled reinsurance company.

Mr Darin was previously chief financial officer at CatGen.

He joined the Catalina group in 2015 as controller of Catalina’s US insurance companies.

Mr Darin has vast experience in the insurance industry, and particularly with P&C.

Over his career, he has held progressively more senior roles, which began in commercial underwriting, reinsurance accounting, controllership and within public accounting, where he was a manager of large public filer insurance and asset management companies.

Mr Darin, who is a certified public accountant, holds a master’s degree in business administration from the Yale School of Management with a concentration in asset management.