2023 Women to Watch Awards Americas EMEA
Jill Beggs Head of North America reinsurance
Everest Group Ltd
Warren, New Jersey
Jill Beggs returned to Everest in her current role in November 2021, after having started her career with the company in the early 1990s, then in the form of Prudential Financial Inc.’s reinsurance operations.
Prudential Re was interviewing on the campus of Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, where she majored in management with a concentration in finance and minors in math and Spanish.
Ms. Beggs knew she wanted to get into business and having studied abroad in Seville, Spain, she also had an interest in working for a global company such as Prudential.
Her initial role when she joined in 1992 was as a financial analyst supporting underwriting, which ultimately led to her move to that discipline.
“I wanted to see what underwriting was about, so I took a role in the international department,” Ms. Beggs said. That led her to South America, where she was given a territory encompassing Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay.
“I did that for a couple of years and was able to use my Spanish traveling down there,” she said.
She later left to join Munich Reinsurance Co., where she held various roles, including president of its excess and surplus lines insurance business, and returned to Everest two years ago.
Ms. Beggs said she loves being back on the reinsurance side.
“I always knew I wanted to get back into reinsurance because I really like the view that you have across the industry, across so many different companies and so many different lines of business,” she said.
Diversity and equity are important to her. “We’re being very intentional about getting diversity at the table” and “will make better decisions and be more successful if we have a diversity of thought,” she said.
“Jill has uniquely stuck out to me as someone that I can openly and effectively communicate with. She is an extraordinary listener and is extremely inclusive in her approach to managing,” said Russell Lewis, chairman, senior vice president, Canadian reinsurance operations, at Everest.
Matthew Lerner
