Senior appointments at First United Insurance

First United Group recently appointed Jean Pierre Portelli and Julian Boffa managers of First United Insurance Brokers Ltd and First United Insurance Management Ltd respectively.

A graduate of the Maastricht School of Management and the Malta International Training Centre, Mr Portelli, who holds diplomas in general business management and applied insurance studies, brings plenty of experience to the company, having been actively involved in the insurance industry for the past 16 years.

He has served in senior positions within the insurance agency and insurer networks until the end of 2007 and later within the broking sector. In the past 10 years he headed a number of units managing the claims operations of both the motor and corporate portfolios.

Mr Boffa also holds a diploma in applied insurance studies with the Chartered Insurance Institute in the UK. A specialist in the marine and aviation insurance sector for the past 15 years, he has held previous posts as commercial and marine underwriter at Middlesea Insurance and manager of the marine and aviation department at a leading insurance broking firm, working both in the local and international markets. In the past two years he has been heading the marine, international and management arms of First United.

First United insurance brokers provides a complete range of insurance broking services, including risk analysis, broking in the local market and the London international markets, claims handling and linked long-term personal financial planning.

First United Insurance Management provides insurance management services to insurers operating in or from Malta and to brokers handling non-Malta risk business.

One of the first management companies to be licensed in Malta, it has the skills and experience to help its clients exploit the insurance opportunities available in the European Single Market.