PRESS RELEASE LIBERTY MUTUAL APPOINTS GARETH REES AS GLOBAL LINES LEADER, GTS
LONDON (08 July 2026) – Liberty Mutual Insurance Group has appointed Gareth Rees as Global Lines Leader for its Global Transaction Solutions (GTS) business, effective 1 July 2026. He reports to Thomas Leahy, Global Product Leader – Financial Lines, Liberty Mutual and is based in London.
Rees has been fundamental in shaping GTS’ global business. He was most recently CUO for six years, having held senior roles since joining in 2015. He will work closely with GTS’ leadership team across EMEA, APAC and the Americas to maintain its market-leading transactional liability offering.
A former corporate lawyer, Rees brings extensive experience in M&A across a variety of industry sectors. In his new role, he will be responsible for driving GTS’ strategic priorities in the next chapter of its evolution.
Leahy said, “We are delighted to announce Gareth’s new role as leader of GTS. He has spent the past decade helping to build out our global team of industry-leading transactional risk experts. Under his leadership, we are confident GTS will continue to provide specialist expertise and agile solutions to its clients and brokers in an increasingly complex transactional risk environment.”
Rees succeeds Rowan Bamford who has left the business to pursue new opportunities.
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