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Darren Jones has joined as an Executive Partner. His career spans 20+ years in energy broking. He has a track record of developing and supporting international clients and has placed operational and construction programmes for many of the major energy companies around the globe. Prior to joining Gallagher, Darren held positions at Miller, Marsh and Lockton.
Ian Curtin is also joining as an Executive Partner later this month. Most recently he was Head of Energy Construction at Miller. Ian brings 50 years of energy and insurance experience having been in senior broking roles at Marsh, Lockton and Sedgewick.
Daniel Stobart joins as a Partner & Account Executive in early 2025. Daniel joins from Marsh where, for the last ten years, he has worked as an Account Executive developing, placing and servicing energy programmes for international oil and gas companies and contractors. Before this he worked for at JLT for over 20 years as a Partner in its Marine and Energy practice.
Gallagher employs over 300 energy specialists globally and has one of the most experienced groups of upstream energy insurance practitioners in the market, operating across all of the key oil and gas regions globally.
Commenting on the appointments, Matt Byatt, Managing Partner of upstream energy at Gallagher Specialty, said: “We are thrilled to welcome Darren, Ian and Daniel to Gallagher. We have recently had some major new business wins and these new recruits, alongside our established existing team, will be pivotal to supporting these clients as well as helping to further develop our client base. The insurance and risk management needs of energy businesses are highly complex and at Gallagher we focus on providing clients with a team that fully understands the risks and opportunities facing them and can deliver unrivalled advice, support and market leading risk transfer solutions.”
