Aviso Specialty has added three senior hires to its M&A Insurance Practice as the Ardonagh Group-backed broker continues to build out its specialty platform in Australia.
The broker announced on Thursday that Dmitry Yatsenko has joined in Melbourne, Kurt Michl in Sydney and Peter Gold in Brisbane, adding capability across warranty and indemnity, tax liability, due diligence and claims. This brings together several executives with prior experience across Marsh’s transactional risk, specialty and M&A-related businesses.
Yatsenko joins from Marsh McLennan, where he served as senior transactional risk adviser for private equity and M&A in Melbourne. His broader career has included roles at The Australian Financial Review, Genascent, Credit Suisse, Jaguar Land Rover, Hannes Snellman Attorneys, DLA Piper, and PwC.
Michl most recently served as senior adviser for transaction and contingent risks at Bellrock in Sydney. Before that, he held several roles at Marsh, including transactional risk broker, M&A and surety executive, and analyst. His career has also included roles at KPMG Australia and Project Everest Ventures.
Gold joins after more than 13 years at Marsh, where he most recently served as head of growth for specialty and portfolio in the Pacific. He previously held private equity M&A and business development roles at Marsh and earlier worked at One Solution Group in the UK.
In addition to his role within the M&A Insurance Practice, Gold will support the growth of Aviso Specialty’s M&A, credit and financial lines capabilities.
The appointments follow the launch of the practice under Kane Sim’s leadership and extend Aviso Specialty’s broader recruitment push, which has seen the business bring in senior market talent across several specialist lines.
In February, Aviso Specialty announced 21 appointments in one sweep, including new leaders across growth, mining, people risk, care, and services-to-industry. That earlier move included a raft of senior hires from Lockton and marked one of the more significant single recruitment announcements in the Australian broking market this year.
