PSC Insurance Group says the appointment of former Allianz executive David Hosking to the new role of CEO Australia and New Zealand will help drive further expansion.

The company says Mr Hosking is well known in the insurance industry and also within PSC, having worked with the business for more than a decade in his previous roles with Allianz.

“David brings a long history and deep understanding of the insurance industry and particularly the insurance broking and intermediary markets,” PSC said last week.

“We believe the addition of David to the PSC team continues our efforts to be constantly growing our capabilities and will help us as we strive to double the size of the business again over the next four years.”

Mr Hosking’s responsibilities will include the Australian specialty and agency business, which remains under Adam Burgess and the Connect and Reliance network businesses, which will remain under Tony Walker.

The Australian broking business, led by Pat Miller, and areas such as IT, workers’ compensation and life broking will also fall within his mandate.

Mr Hosking left Allianz Australia in December, after most recently holding the role of Chief GM Broker and Agency, as a new operating model was introduced. Previously he was Allianz CFO, while he has also worked at IAG.