{"id":5261,"date":"2026-03-26T09:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T10:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xinetica.com\/?p=5261"},"modified":"2026-03-26T14:32:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T14:32:48","slug":"industry-veteran-chris-jones-joins-pinion-insurance-as-group-cfo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.xinetica.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/industry-veteran-chris-jones-joins-pinion-insurance-as-group-cfo\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry veteran Chris Jones joins Pinion Insurance as Group CFO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pinion Insurance, a newly-formed, technology-enabled specialty insurer, has announced the appointment of Chris Jones as Group Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective immediately.<\/p>\n

\"\"Jones is now part of a founding leadership team of Chief Executive Officer, Neil McConachie, Group Chief Underwriting Officer, Philip Vandoninck, and Group Chief Technology Officer, Laura Baird.<\/p>\n

He has also become a member of Pinion\u2019s Executive Committee and will be based in London.<\/p>\n

Jones, who has over three decades of experience in finance and accountancy, joined Pinion from Aspen Insurance Group, where he most recently served as UK Chief Financial Officer.<\/p>\n

Prior to that, he held finance leadership roles at Beazley Furlonge and Liberty Syndicates. He started his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant.<\/p>\n

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Commenting on Jones\u2019 appointment McConachie said: \u201cChris is an excellent addition to the Pinion founding management team. He has enjoyed a sterling career in the insurance industry, and his expertise will be invaluable as we build out the business.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jones stated: \u201cI am excited to have the opportunity to join such an innovative business as Pinion, a business that will be built using modern technology for operational efficiency. We have strong financial backing, and I am looking forward to working with Neil, Philip and Laura.\u201d<\/p>\n

The appointment follows the recent addition of Kyle Selvig as US Chief Underwriting Officer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pinion began operations in February 2026.<\/a> Incorporated in Bermuda and headquartered in London, the launch included a preferred equity commitment of up to $180 million from Barings, a global asset manager.<\/p>\n

The new insurer is built on data-driven foundations of Pinion Risk Consulting (PRC). Pinion will offer insurance capacity and proprietary technology-driven underwriting insight for MGAs in the US, UK, and Europe.<\/p>\n

Additionally, the firm targets binding business in the US in the second quarter of 2026, and plans to underwrite in the EU and UK in 2027, pending regulatory approval.<\/p>\n

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Pinion Insurance, a newly-formed, technology-enabled specialty insurer, has announced the appointment of Chris Jones as Group Chief Financial Officer (CFO), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xinetica.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5261"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xinetica.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xinetica.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xinetica.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xinetica.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5261"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.xinetica.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5265,"href":"http:\/\/www.xinetica.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5261\/revisions\/5265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xinetica.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xinetica.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xinetica.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xinetica.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}