The Hartford Names Christopher Lewis SVP of Capital Planning and Chief Risk Officer, P&C

The Hartford Financial Services Group (Hartford) has appointed Christopher Lewis senior vice president to the newly created role of capital planning, and as chief risk officer of property and casualty operations. Lewis will report to Robert Paiano, senior vice president and enterprise risk officer, according to a press release from The Hartford.

As senior vice president of capital planning, Lewis will be responsible for capital planning and analysis enterprise-wide. He will be responsible for further streamlining capital planning infrastructure across the organization and will be responsible for capital projections, capital attribution and other analyses of capital supporting The Hartford's business operations. In his capacity as chief risk officer of The Hartford's P&C operations, he will be responsible for enterprise risk management initiatives and implementation within the P&C operations. He will also support the P&C senior leadership team on matters related to risk management.

Lewis was most recently chief financial officer of The Hartford's Personal and Small Business Insurance (P&SBI) unit. In that role, Lewis provided financial perspective and analysis in the development of strategy, management of operations and execution of key initiatives designed to improve performance and enhance the capabilities of P&SBI. Lewis joined The Hartford in 2004 as vice president of property and casualty capital management and director of alternative market solutions, where he helped establish The Hartford's risk-linked securities program and oversaw various capital management initiatives within the property and casualty organization.

Prior to joining The Hartford, Lewis served as managing director and global head of advisory services for Fitch Risk Management, where he managed a risk management consulting practice serving financial services firms in all areas of market, credit and operational risk. From 1990-1995, Lewis was a senior economist at the Office of Management and Budget and a member of the White House Working Group on Natural Disasters.

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