Exclusive: Everest US cyber liability head Golden exits Bermudian after six years

By James Thaler

June 30 - (The Insurer) - Everest’s U.S. head of cyber liability, Tim Golden, is leaving after six years with the company, multiple cyber sources told Cyber Risk Insurer.

The reasons for Golden’s departure or his destination could not immediately be confirmed. A spokesperson for Everest did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Golden had been Everest’s U.S. head of cyber liability for the last two years, having previously spent about a year as U.S. head of retail cyber. He joined Everest in 2019, after spending around seven years with Chubb.

His departure marks additional turnover within Everest's professional liability ranks after a run of exits in 2024 that included private company and not-for-profit D&O head Mike Truehart, global head of cyber liability Ayesha West and Joshua Kranz.

Other notable exits at the company recently have included chief human resources officer Gail Van Beveren, who retired after nearly 40 years with the company, and head of excess casualty national accounts Jake Sokol.

In January, Everest CEO Juan Andrade surprised the market and left the business to take the helm at USAA.

Jim Williamson, having initially held the CEO role on an interim basis following Andrade’s departure, was then appointed to the position on a permanent basis in late January.

In March, Everest announced long-serving chairman Joseph Taranto’s more than three-decade association with the company would conclude in May, with former independent board member John Graf his successor.

Senior arrivals include Ashleigh Sears, who joined as head of alternative risk and head of national accounts excess casualty from USQRisk, and Pamela Guerrero, who arrived from AIG’s Lexington unit as head of wholesale casualty as its Everest Evolution platform.