AXA XL - the property & casualty and specialty risk division of French re/insurance group AXA - announced the promotion of Charlotte WILSON to global head of portfolio solutions, with responsibility for developing and executing the global strategy for portfolio solutions.

She will be part of Philippe GOURAUD's Global Strategic Distribution team and will take up her new role on 1 May. She will be based in London.

"Portfolio solutions continues to be a key focus for AXA XL as increasingly brokers are looking to group a set of similar risks together and place them with a selected panel of insurers following a market tender process", as the company informed in a statement.

Charlotte WILSON brings 17 years' experience in insurance, having joined SEDGWICK Insurance Brokers in 1996 as a graduate trainee. She went on to become a terrorism and political risk insurance broker, leaving SEDGWICK (now MARSH) in 2002 to join CATLIN Underwriting Agencies as an underwriting assistant in the Fine Art and Specie team. Most recently, as underwriting manager, Charlotte WILSON has overseen the continued growth of profitable business at AXA XL. Over the coming months, Charlotte WILSON will work to ensure a smooth handover and transition of her current responsibilities and client relationships.