Management Team

Giuseppe Pancucci

Giuseppe Pancucci

Chief Operating Officer

Giuseppe Pancucci is UnipolRe’s Chief Operating Officer (COO) since June 2022, he joined UnipolRe in 2017 as Chief Technology Officer (CTO). He will be a significant contributor now at Board level as well as in all other leadership fora. In his new role, he continues to retain responsibility for technology strategy and key deliverables including strategic delivery planning, ensuring best value for investment in IT, ensuring best practice IT security as well as management governance and risk within the function. He also now assumes a significant expansion of his corporate responsibilities to include Claims and Human Resources. Both functions will gain from the insight and sponsorship of Giuseppe’s including his previous ‘C’ level and board level experience in the continued development of UnipolRe. All of these responsibilities are in the context of the UnipolRe business strategy and the primacy of meeting and surpassing client expectations. Giuseppe also brings a wealth of experience from different companies and sector across various geographies. He has extensive experience working as a consultant both for Bain and Co, and Ernest and Young. In Italy he was employed by Arkymede in their significant and public sector and utility projects as well as having experience with AXA and MPS Group

Simone Zollia

Simone Zollia

Chief Risk Officer

Simone Zollia has been with UnipolRe for 5 years working in the Underwriting Department supporting UnipolRe Clients in areas such as telematics and parametric products. Simone has also assisted cedants in capital optimization. Prior to joining UnipolRe Simone worked at UnipolSai Assicurazioni in their Risk Management Team, providing valuable support during the Partial Internal Model approval. As an expert in the validation process, he was involved in the definition of Solvency II Validation Framework and in the presentation of the validation report to the Supervisor Authority in Italy (IVASS). Prior to this, Simone worked in the SAS Institute (Statistical Analysis System – Software House) within Risk Management Solutions for several years. Simone holds a Master’s in Economics and Finance from the Venice International University, Italy, and a Bachelor’s in Economics with a specialization in the stock market from Cá Foscari University, Venice, Italy

Tom Moran

Chief Financial Officer

Tom has a Bachelor of Commerce Degree and is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland. He started his career with a big 4 accounting firm and gained extensive audit and taxation experience with a large bank and a number of domestic insurance companies. He has over 30 years’ experience in senior management positions from employments with a large domestic insurance group and two international life assurance companies where he held the positions of Financial Accountant, Internal Auditor, Taxation Manager, Financial Controller and CEO.

John Sheehy

John Sheehy

Head of Claims

John joined Unipolre as Head of Claims in May 2023. John is an associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute and is a Chartered Insurer. John has almost 40 years insurance industry experience and had senior claims roles in Aviva and Head of Claims roles in both Travelers and Liberty insurance. John`s expertise is in Property and Casualty claims, Professional Indemnity and Medical Malpractice claims. John was also a former Director and Chairman of the Motor Insurers Bureau of Ireland.

Ajitesh Pareek

ajitesh.pareek@unipolre.com

Head of IT

Ajitesh Pareek is UnipolRe's Head of IT since 2021, he joined UnipolRe in 2017 as a Senior SAP Conultant - IT Systems Administrator. Later, he got promoted to Software & Business Platforms Manager and then Head of IT. In his new role, Ajitesh is leading the UnipolRe IT team. He is responsible for maintaining IT Security posture and overall IT Management of the company. Since being promoted to Head of IT, he is also part of the management Committee and also holds Head of Data Governance position. Ajitesh is an empowering leader with over more than 12 years of experience in the IT industry.  He brings extensive experience from various companies and clients across multiple geographies. Ajitesh also worked with Cognizant Technology Solutions and Mphasis Limited, serving numerous clients and supporting them in different sectors, including Aviation, Automobile, Utilities, pharmaceutical and retail. Ajitesh holds a Master's degree in Management from Trinity College Dublin and many certifications in IT. Since joining UnipolRe, Ajitesh has gained significant business knowledge and technical understanding in the Financial, Technical Accounting and Reinsurance sector.