Everest Insurance® Adds Shaun Safi to US Property Team

NEW YORK, New York – February 15, 2018 – Everest Re Group, Ltd. (NYSE: RE) announced today that Shaun Safi has joined the Everest Insurance^® U.S. Property team as Vice President based in Chicago. In this role, Shaun will be responsible for overseeing the retail property portfolio in the central region as well as the continued development of trading partner relationships throughout the region.

Commenting on the addition, Jason Ventling, Head of Retail Property at Everest Insurance^® stated, “Shaun is a great addition to the Everest Insurance^® team. He has shown consistent success in his career and will bring a strong focus to the brokerage community in the central region, which is a very important market for us. We are very pleased he has joined the Everest team in Chicago.”

Shaun joins Everest from Zurich Insurance, where he most recently served as a Property Team Leader for Zurich Global Corporate, overseeing a large international property portfolio. Prior to his role at Zurich, Shaun held underwriting roles of increasing responsibility at AIG.  Shaun is a graduate of Northern Illinois University.

Everest Re Group, Ltd. is a Bermuda holding company that operates through the following subsidiaries: Everest Reinsurance Company provides reinsurance to property and casualty insurers in both the U.S. and international markets. Everest Reinsurance (Bermuda), Ltd., including through its branch in the United Kingdom, provides reinsurance and insurance to worldwide property and casualty markets and reinsurance to life insurers. Everest Reinsurance Company (Ireland), dac. provides reinsurance to non-life insurers in Europe. Everest Insurance^® refers to the primary insurance operations of Everest Re Group, Ltd., and its affiliated companies which offer property, casualty and specialty lines insurance on both an admitted and non-admitted basis in the U.S. and internationally. The Company also operates within the Lloyd's insurance market through Syndicate 2786. In addition, through Mt. Logan Re, Ltd., the Company manages segregated accounts, capitalized by the Company and third party investors that provide reinsurance for property catastrophe risks. Additional information on Everest Re Group companies can be found at the Group’s web site at www.everestre.com.