The Fidelis Partnership appoints David Woods as Ireland CEO
HAMILTON, BERMUDA — 29 April 2026 — The Fidelis Partnership (“TFP”) is today pleased to announce the appointment of David Woods as Ireland CEO.
David has been with the business for almost a decade, serving first in Bermuda and then in London, and is currently Group Head of Portfolio and Exposure Management. He will relocate to Dublin in May, with a start date as CEO of 1 July, subject to regulatory approval.
TFP is also pleased to announce today that Michelle Raine is to be appointed as Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO) for its Irish entity. Michelle joined TFP as a Senior D&F Property Underwriter in 2025 after more than two decades at AXIS Capital. In her new role, she will work closely with incoming Pine Walk MGA platform CUO, Peter Williams, to build on the platform’s significant momentum.
TFP transferred its primary European entity to Ireland from Belgium in December 2025, making Dublin the principal hub through which the business accesses the EU market. David will be responsible for the continued growth and development of this key operational and strategic location, which is central to TFP’s European growth ambitions and wider commitment to investment in Ireland, where TFP has grown its Dublin headcount to over 75.
Rob Kelly, TFP’s current Ireland CEO, will transition to the new role of Group Director of Finance, to further strengthen the group Finance function. Grahame Dawe, currently Group Financial Controller, will increase his focus on supporting Pine Walk’s growth in his role as UK CFO.
Alongside this TFP has made two senior hires in London:
· Marc MacGillivray will join as Chief Accounting Officer in May. Marc has been with Aspen Insurance Group since 2017, most recently serving as Group Chief Accounting Officer. Before Aspen, he was Head of US GAAP & IFRS Reporting for AIG’s Europe division.
· Marshall Viegas will join as Group Head of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) in June. Marshall joins from AmTrust International, where he has served as Head of Data & Analytics since 2024. He brings over two decades of experience across insurance, accounting and auditing, with prior roles at EY.
These appointments reflect TFP’s strategic momentum and build out of capabilities to further enhance execution of its risk allocator model and onboarding of new Pine Walk cells. In 2025, Pine Walk wrote $1bn of premium and recently announced the launch of its 17th cell, Mezura Capital.
Conor O'Riordan, Group Chief Financial Officer at TFP, commented: “I am delighted to be welcoming David to the role of Ireland CEO, where his deep familiarity with TFP’s strategic ambitions over the last decade and his core involvement in the execution of TFP’s capital light risk allocation model will prove invaluable to our continued growth in Ireland and Europe.
TFP’s Dublin office has rapidly expanded into both a key strategic hub for our European business and a home for some of Ireland’s leading underwriting, actuarial and data talent. David’s appointment reflects our commitment to building on this momentum and to the development of Dublin as a globally recognised European insurance hub. I would also like to thank Rob Kelly for his exceptional contribution to TFP’s growth in Ireland and look forward to collaborating closely with him in his Group Director of Finance role.”
David Woods added: “I am hugely excited by the growth that TFP has achieved in Ireland since opening our office in 2018 and delighted to be taking on this leadership position in the region, especially having grown up and studied in Dublin. We see enormous potential for Dublin to develop its profile as a globally recognised European insurance hub and as a destination of choice for insurance capital, especially across specialty lines. With our exceptional local talent and group-wide reputation for underwriting leadership and innovation, TFP is perfectly positioned to help drive this development while also delivering on our own strategic ambitions.”