Henna A. Karna and John J. Gauthier have been appointed to the board of directors of Hamilton Insurance Group Ltd.

Dr Karna has more than 25 years of experience leading innovation across digital/data in high-tech, consumer packaged goods, risk management and financial services/insurance industries.

She has led businesses and advised Fortune 50 companies on digital strategies and product innovation and has designed and developed patent-pending technology and applications in the fields of artificial intelligence, genetic algorithms, behavioural analytics, deep neural nets and advanced data technologies.

Most recently, Dr Karna served as the general manager, managing director, global insurance & risk management solutions at Google Cloud.

Prior to Google, she served as global chief data officer at Axa XL.

Over the course of her career, she has served as president of Verisk Digital Services and vice-president of Customer Success at Verisk Analytics. Prior to that, she was vice-president, customer strategy.

Previously, Dr Karna served as the managing director & global actuarial CIO for AIG across Life and P&C, consumer and commercial insurance.

Earlier in her career, she held positions at Affinnova, John Hancock Insurance and held government cryptology-related roles.

Dr Karna currently serves on the boards of Essent Group and AtSign Company.

Mr Gauthier served as chief investment officer of Allied World Assurance Company Holdings AG from 2008 to 2018. He also served as president of Allied World Financial Services Company Inc from 2012 until his retirement in 2018.

Before joining Allied World, Mr Gauthier was a managing director with Goldman Sachs Asset Management.

Prior to Goldman Sachs, he was a managing director at Conning Asset Management where he led Conning’s property-casualty asset management practice.

Mr Gauthier also previously held positions with General Reinsurance/New England Asset Management and The Travelers.

He serves on the boards of the Reinsurance Group of America, where he chairs the investment committee, The Hartford Funds and Middlesex (CT) Health Systems.

Hamilton board chair David A. Brown said the new directors bring significant leadership experience and industry expertise and will be excellent additions to the board.

Hamilton chief executive Pina Albo said: “They bring impressive track records and salient knowhow, and I look forward to their leadership and contributions.”