FM Global says James Thompson has been appointed Senior VP APAC Division Manager with responsibility for the oversight of all the US mutual insurer’s operations in the Asia Pacific, taking over from Ziad Alex S. Tadmoury.

Mr Tadmoury has a new role as Senior VP AFM division manager, the insurer’s commercial property insurance unit for the middle market. AFM provides tailored underwriting expertise and property loss control engineering through a select international network of broker partners.

Mr Thompson, who is based in Melbourne, was previously VP, Manager, Global Sales in the APAC region.

He joined the business in 1993 as a risk consultant engineer in the company’s Melbourne office, and has since served in various engineering and leadership roles in client service, sales, and underwriting within the US, the UK and Australia. Prior to that, he was an environmental project engineer for a Mobil/Exxon joint venture.

FM Global announced his appointment today, along with other key executive moves in Australia and the region.

The insurer says Andrew Stafford has been appointed Operations Senior VP, Operations Manager, Australia and New Zealand.

In his new role, he will be based in Sydney and will assume responsibility for FM Global’s operations in Australia. He was previously Regional Senior VP AFM EMEA and Australia. He will report to Mr Thompson.

He succeeds Lynette Schultheis who now oversees FM Global’s Western division, based in Texas. She was previously Operations Manager based in Sydney, according to her LinkedIn.

Hian Hong Tan has been named Operations Senior VP, Operations Manager, Asia, and will assume responsibility for FM Global’s operations in Asia.

Mr Tan was previously VP, Division Underwriting Manager, responsible for Asia and Australia. He is based in Singapore and will report to Mr Thompson.