Katherine Letsinger has been appointed group finance director of Wellington Underwriting plc. She will take up the post on 16 September.
Letsinger, 40, will join the board of Wellington Underwriting plc and Wellington Underwriting Agencies. She qualified as a certified public accountant in the State of Florida, USA and worked for 12 years for Price Waterhouse Insurance Services where her experience covered auditing, consultancy and litigation services to US insurance companies. She was made a partner in 1995.
She joined GeneralCologne Re in 1996 as chief financial officer of the london direct operations, in which role she has had responsibility for finance and IT services to various global units.