Dual announces US CEO succession

Jim O’Connor, the CEO of U.S. operations for Dual Group, the underwriting arm of London-based brokerage Howden Group Holdings Ltd., has left the company “to pursue other opportunities,” the company said Tuesday.

Dual said John Johnson, president of Align Financial Holdings, a San Diego-based general agency and underwriting management group, whose acquisition has just been completed, will become Dual North America CEO, the company said in its statement. 

The $800 million deal was announced in August.

Align CEO Kieran Sweeney will become Dual Group’s executive chairman and join the Howden Group’s executive committee.