Arab Insurance Group announced the retirement of Mr. Andreas Weidlich (General Manager - Reinsurance), Mr. Nagarajan Kannan (General Manager - Finance & Administration) and Mr. Salah Al Maraj (Assistant General Manager - Reinsurance) effective December 31, 2016, all having attained the retirement age. As part of its planned succession, Arig appointed Mr. Firas El Azem as the new General Manager -Reinsurance, Mr. Samuel Verghese as Deputy General Manager - Finance & Administration and Mr. Rachid Mechouet as Assistant General Manager - Reinsurance. All the appointments will take effect from January 1, 2017. Mr. El Azem, a graduate in Business Administration from the University of Cologne, brings over 25 years of experience in insurance and reinsurance. Mr. Verghese joined Arig in 1997 and has been heading the Finance Department since 2008 as Director and has more than 25 years of reinsurance experience having worked with CCR (Algeria), Arig (Tunis) and Med Re (London) before coming back to Arig in 2010 as Director - Claims & Technical Accounts.