Howden aligns global broking regions to be closer to clients

London, 16 March 2026 – Howden today announces leadership appointments and regional structure changes to better serve clients and insurer partners. The changes will more closely align expertise and shape the business to bring all of its growing capabilities and talent to clients across regional borders.  

Howden’s International Growth Markets (IGM) division, led by Sonia Caamaño since 2023, has built and scaled fast-growing businesses, delivering 16% p.a. average organic growth over the past three years and preparing them for integration into their regional structures.  The success of this approach means that Howden will now align the IGM businesses with their respective regions to serve clients and insurer partners even more effectively.

The following changes take effect from 1 April:

Strengthening Howden’s business in the Americas

• With significant opportunity to align more closely for clients in the Americas by ensuring all Howden’s expertise and capabilities are available to them, Mike Parrish becomes CEO, Americas. 
• Sonia Caamaño will lead Latin America and Caribbean as CEO, reporting to Mike, to bring Howden’s capabilities to meet the ever-increasing demand for specialty expertise and the need to serve clients seamlessly across borders in the region’s fast-growing economies. Sonia will lead the delivery of this to clients as well as driving collaboration with Howden’s newly established US retail business, also led by Mike.
• Sonia will be supported by José Ignacio Lathrop, when he takes up his position as Executive Chairman, Latin America, bringing deep sector expertise and longstanding relationships to support regional acceleration.

Creation of EMEA broking region

• Howden’s MEA businesses – including the UAE, Bahrain, Oman, Tanzania, South Africa, and its newly launched operation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia – will align with the Howden Europe business to create a single EMEA broking region led by Luigi Sturani, CEO EMEA.
• Richard Mockett, CEO, MEA, will report to Luigi, unlocking further opportunity through closer collaboration and sharper connectivity across the regions.
• Paul Redgate will be Chairman, MEA, alongside his role as Chairman, Specialty.

Howden India becomes part of Howden Asia region

• Howden’s business in India, led by Amit Agarwal, will be aligned with the Asia region, led by Rohan Bhappu, CEO Asia. The combined team will be ideally positioned to collaborate for clients, and to continue attracting the best talent in the market.  
• Paul Redgate will also take the role of Chairman, Howden India.

David Howden CBE, CEO, Howden, said: “As we continue to attract talent, aligning them to deliver to our clients is our priority. These changes reflect our continued commitment to get into the right shape, with the right talent in the right places for where clients need us today, and where they will need us next.” 

“Howden Americas, under Mike’s leadership, will bring together the exciting new retail broking operations in the US with our fast-growing business in Latin America. IGM has been a trailblazer in fast-growing markets for the past three years thanks to Sonia’s leadership, and I am delighted that she will now lead Latin America and Caribbean in this next phase.  Luigi has significant experience of working in MEA and his leadership and experience will help Richard Mockett and his team as they move into a new growth phase. And Rohan has worked in India and knows many of the Howden team from his previous roles.  These appointments are testament to the strength of our leadership group and together, they position us strongly for the next phase of growth.”