AXIS Capital Holdings Limited ("AXIS Capital") (NYSE: AXS) today
announced that the Company’s Board of Directors has elected Alice Young
as a director.
Michael Butt, Chairman of AXIS Capital, said: “We are very delighted
Alice has agreed to join our Board where the breadth and scope of her
international experience, particularly in the growth areas of the world,
will be a great addition to our deliberations. We look forward to her
contributions as an independent director.”
Since 1994, Ms. Young has served as a partner at the international law
firm Kaye Scholer LLP and as Chairperson of the firm's Asia Pacific
practice. In 2013, Ms. Young became Special Counsel of Kaye Scholer LLP
and continues to serve as Chairperson of the firm’s Asia Pacific
practice. She has extensive experience advising multinational entities
and entrepreneurs on their business and investment activities in the
United States and Asia. Ms. Young also serves as a member of the Board
of Directors and on the Executive and Examining Committees of Mizuho
Trust & Banking Co. (USA); as Trustee of the Aspen Institute, Asia
Foundation and Give2Asia; and Associate Fellow of Davenport College,
Yale University. Ms. Young is also a member of the Council on Foreign
Relations, Committee of 100, Deloitte & Touche Diversity External
Advisory Council, Asia Society, the US-China Business Council and Japan
Society.
Ms. Young received her Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude from
Yale College, in 1971, graduating with Distinction and Honors in East
Asian Studies. Following Yale College, she attended Harvard Law School,
from which she received her Doctor of Law degree, cum laude, in
1974.
AXIS Capital is a Bermuda-based global provider of specialty lines
insurance and treaty reinsurance with shareholders’ equity at December
31, 2012 of $5.8 billion and locations in Bermuda, the United States,
Europe, Singapore, Canada, Australia and Latin America. Its operating
subsidiaries have been assigned a rating of “A+” (“Strong”) by Standard
& Poor’s and “A” (“Excellent”) with a positive outlook by A.M. Best.
AXIS Capital and AXIS Specialty Finance LLC have been assigned senior
unsecured debt ratings of A- (stable) by Standard & Poor’s and Baa1
(stable) by Moody’s Investors Service. For more information about AXIS
Capital, visit our website at www.axiscapital.com.
