Gryphon Group Holdings appoints new CEO

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The board of Gryphon Group Holdings Limited has announced that Simon Davis, Co-Founder and former chief operating officer, has been appointed as CEO.

  Daniel Pender, former CEO, has left the business.  Before co-founding Gryphon, Simon Davis, was previously former Chief Risk Officer at Guardian and Corporate Services Director at Admin Re. Simon Davis, CEO of Gryphon Group Holdings Ltd, said: "We remain focused on building a protection business dedicated to creating greater consumer trust and an effortless adviser experience. We look forward to sharing more about our launch plans in due course." In June the start-up protection insurer revealed that it raised £180m in funding to design and build a protection 'insurance challen...

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