Cover-More Group appoints Ernesto Suarez as CEO UK

London, UK, Wednesday 30 October 2019: Global travel insurance, medical and employee assistance provider, Cover-More Group, has appointed Ernesto Suarez to the newly-created position of Chief Executive Officer, UK.

The appointment demonstrates Cover-More’s ambition in the UK and plans for growth across the travel insurance, rental car insurance and travel services businesses.

As UK Chief Executive Officer, Ernesto will be responsible for all aspects of the business and specifically on accelerating the growth of the Cover-More brand, launching new travel insurance and related services.

Cover-More CEO, Europe, Middle East & Africa, David White, said: “We are thrilled to promote Ernesto into this new role. He is the ideal leader to grow our UK market presence further. Ernesto founded Halo Insurance in 2009 and his entrepreneurial expertise and in-depth knowledge of this market will be invaluable to support our ambitions of this key market. As a group, we have launched several market-leading innovations to travellers across Asia, Latin America and North America and Ernesto will be embedding these offerings and identifying new opportunities to deliver innovation and value to our customers and partners, as we look to 2020 and beyond.”

On his promotion, Ernesto said: “I’m delighted to be leading our exceptional UK team into their next phase of growth. As a business we have many exciting opportunities ahead of us, while internally we are developing more innovations to bring to market.”

Ernesto will report into David, who joined Cover-More Group in 2018 from Zurich Insurance Group. They are both based in London.

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For further information, please contact: Angela Cross, Pilot PR +61 412 929 397 or angela@pilotpr.com.au

About Cover-More Group
Cover-More Group is one of the world’s leading global specialist, integrated travel insurance and assistance providers. Cover-More has operations in 22 countries across five continents with leading market positions in Australia, Ireland (with Blue Insurance), India, New Zealnd, in the USA where the group owns Travelex Insurance Services, and in Latin America with Travel Ace Assistance and Universal Assistance. In the United Kingdom, Cover-More also owns Halo Insurance Services. Cover-More Group was acquired by Zurich Insurance Group in 2017.