The Imagine group has announced that co-founder Tom Gleason has left the company and Brad Huntingdon who was formerly co-chief executive with Mr. Gleason, has taken over as sole president and chief executive officer.

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Platinum Underwriters Holdings, Ltd. has appointed Justin Cressall as treasurer.

Mr. Cressall joins Platinum from KPMG LLP, where he has held various positions serving the firm's insurance, reinsurance and financial services clientele.

As part of his responsibilities as Treasurer, Mr. Cressall will lead Platinum's investor relations function.

William Robbie, chief financial officer of Platinum, said: "We are pleased to welcome Justin to the Platinum finance team.

Many of us have worked with Justin in the past and we have been consistently impressed with his financial acumen and professionalism.

We believe that he will make many Mr. Cressall is a qualified chartered accountant in Canada and Bermuda.

He received a BA in economics from Tufts University and an MBA from the University of Toronto."

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Independent Consulting Solutions has appointed Edward Flynn to the newly created position of business development manager.

Mr. Flynn will be responsible for spearheading growth across specific market sectors including insurance/reinsurance, banking, retail, utilities companies, distribution, shipping and law, introducing clients to a number of new services the company will be launching over the coming months.

President and chief executive officer Robert Salmon said: "Ed has an impressive track-record in sales and sales management across data networking, telecommunications and Professional Services.

"Before coming to Bermuda he was equipment specialist/channel manager for AT&T in Canada.

"In this post he was responsible for driving revenues from sales of voice equipment, including VoIP and PBX applications and data hardware such as FRADs, routers, LAN and WAN switches and VPN appliances."

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W.P. Stewart & Co., Ltd. has announced that Barton H. Buxbaum has been named president and chief executive officer of W.P. Stewart Asset Management (NA), Inc., (WPSAM) the company's North American marketing and client service subsidiary

He replaces Robert D. Rosenthal as chief executive.

Mr. Buxbaum has almost 20 years experience in the investment and wealth management business including a senior management position at Citigroup Asset Management where he served a global client base and managed over $500 million in US equity investments.

He holds a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.

W.P. Stewart announced that Mr. Rosenthal is returning to Long Island and will continue as a director of WPSAM and provide marketing and client service advice to the group.