AXIS names chief financial officer

PEMBROKE, Bermuda—AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd. said Monday that Albert Benchimol will join the company as its chief financial officer effective Jan. 17, 2011.

He succeeds David Greenfield, who has resigned effective at the end of this month.

Mr. Benchimol will join AXIS from PartnerRe Ltd., where he has been executive vp and CFO since 2000. In 2007, he took on the additional role of CEO of PartnerRe’s capital markets group.

He is retiring from PartnerRe effective Dec. 31 and will join Bermuda-based AXIS in mid-January.