+8 Partners appoints Wendy Kao deputy chair

Kao remains Taiwan chief representative for Rare Earth Insurance Partners.

+8 Partners, an ecosystem of associated insurance businesses, appointed Wendy Kao as deputy chair.

Kao has served as Chief Representative, Taiwan, for Rare Earth Insurance Partners since August 2018, and will continue in that role whilst assuming her new position. 

She brings more than three decades of experience in the (re)insurance industry, having built her career as insurer, reinsurer, and broker. 

She began her career as a reinsurance underwriter at Taiwan Fire and Marine Insurance Company, where she spent nearly two decades developing deep expertise in outward reinsurance and all-lines treaty business. 

She earned a reinsurance underwriting licence from the Swiss Insurance Training Centre (SITC) in Switzerland and holds an underwriting licence from the Non-Life Insurance Association of the ROC.