Aventum names Butcher non-executive chairman

By Ryan Hewlett

Feb 27 - (The Insurer) – Aventum, the expansive international (re)insurance group that houses MGA Rokstone Underwriting and specialty broking business Consilium, has named Jonathan Butcher non-executive chairman.

Butcher, who has been a non-executive director at Rokstone since 2022, has 35 years’ experience in the Lloyd's and London market and latterly served as CEO and before that underwriting director at Novae Syndicates.

The industry veteran, who also joined the board of the Lloyd’s Market Association in 2015, was at Novae for 14 years and before that spent 13 years at Lloyd’s and 11 years at the Sturge Group in a variety of senior underwriting roles across multiple classes.

Butcher was CEO at Novae Syndicates when it was sold to Axis in 2017 for in excess of $600 million and led the syndicate through that process.