MS Frontier Reinsurance Ltd announced the hiring of two Bermudians and the promotion of four more.The Bermuda-based re/insurer has appointed Sean Belton as international underwriter and Chuck Morgan as associate underwriter.Meanwhile George Masters has been promoted to corporate technology executive, Kimberley Brough to associate underwriter, Jessie Masters to assistant underwriter and Jalila Smith to senior underwriting assistant.Mr Belton joined MS Frontier Re in October 2010, assuming responsibility for the underwriting and continued development of the International property catastrophe portfolio. He has accumulated more than 20 years of experience in the reinsurance industry.Most recently, Mr Belton was senior vice-president at Pulsar Re, where he underwrote and managed a multi-line short tail treaty reinsurance portfolio. In Bermuda he has also held positions at LaSalle Re and Endurance Specialty where he underwrote international property catastrophe business.Mr Morgan joined the company in November 2010 as part of the North American treaty team.Having started his career in the insurance industry as a business analyst at BF&M in Bermuda, in 2005 he moved into the reinsurance business as a risk analyst gaining invaluable experience in US and International property catastrophe modelling and underwriting.Mr Morgan was most recently with Ironshore Insurance Ltd as a senior risk analyst where he was responsible for overseeing the roll-up of the property aggregations for Pembroke Managing Agency as well as various day-to-day corporate risk management functions.Mr Masters, who joined Ms Frontier Re in December 2006, is responsible for global management of all the company’s information technology systems and services.He started his technology career in 1999 with Grey Data in Toronto Canada where he worked in various areas of computer networking, programming and information technology administration.Between 1999 and 2003, Mr Masters expanded his knowledge of computer programming and database analytics through developing accountable marketing systems for several large advertising agencies in Canada.In 2004, he transitioned from marketing into reinsurance as network administrator/programmer for Ram Reinsurance Ltd Bermuda. There he developed the key skills that allowed him apply his extensive computer knowledge to reinsurance systems and platforms. Ms Brough joined MS Frontier Re in July 2009 as part of the international treaty team.Starting her career in insurance as a trainee broker with the BMS Group, gaining experience in both the London and Bermuda markets, she then moved on to JLT Park as an assistant property broker in 2008.Ms Masters joined the company in October 2008 as an underwriting assistant and has since moved to the international treaty team.She started her career in the insurance industry with HSBC Insurance Solutions before moving to MS Frontier Re.Ms Smith joined MS Frontier Re in November 2007 and is now a member of the North American treaty team.Having started out in insurance as a receptionist at Marsh Management Services (Bermuda) Ltd. in 2001 and shortly thereafter moved to the insurance department as a trainee insurance technician, she joined Endurance Specialty Insurance (Bermuda) Ltd as a technical assistant in the direct property department in 2003, and later moved to the business services department as a junior reinsurance analyst.Previously Ms Smith worked with Everest Re (Bermuda) Ltd as a technical assistant prior to being promoted to the role of risk analyst.Masataka Kitagawa, president and CEO of MS Frontier Re, said: “MS Frontier Re has for many years strived to recruit and develop a highly skilled team of Bermudian staff and these appointments and promotions underline our commitment to that long-term goal.“