<SEC-DOCUMENT>0001214816-14-000023.txt : 20140327
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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001214816-14-000023
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	8-K
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		3
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20140321
ITEM INFORMATION:		Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
ITEM INFORMATION:		Financial Statements and Exhibits
FILED AS OF DATE:		20140327
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20140327

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			AXIS CAPITAL HOLDINGS LTD
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001214816
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	FIRE, MARINE & CASUALTY INSURANCE [6331]
		IRS NUMBER:				000000000
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		8-K
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-31721
		FILM NUMBER:		14722219

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		92 PITTS BAY ROAD
		CITY:			PEMBROKE
		STATE:			D0
		ZIP:			HM 08
		BUSINESS PHONE:		(441) 496-2600

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		92 PITTS BAY ROAD
		CITY:			PEMBROKE
		STATE:			D0
		ZIP:			HM 08
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<a name="s258967B096D245130179F926CD0AC61F"></a><div></div><br><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:14pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:14pt;font-weight:bold;">UNITED STATES</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#32;<br></font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:14pt;font-weight:bold;">SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#32;<br></font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;font-weight:bold;">Washington, D.C.  20549</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;"><div style="padding-left:0px;text-indent:0px;line-height:normal;padding-top:10px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;width:18.128654970760234%;border-collapse:collapse;text-align:left;"><tr><td colspan="1"></td></tr><tr><td width="100%"></td></tr><tr><td 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style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;text-indent:48px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"></font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">On March 21, 2014, Dennis Reding, Chief Operating Officer of AXIS Capital Holdings Limited (the &#8220;Company&#8221;) provided notice to the Company of his retirement from his position effective April 1, 2014.&#160; John Gressier, currently the Chief Executive Officer of the Company&#8217;s AXIS Insurance segment, will be appointed Chief Operating Officer to succeed Mr. Reding,&#160; effective April 1, 2014.&#160; Peter Wilson, currently President of U.S. Insurance for the Company, will succeed Mr. Gressier as Chief Executive Officer of AXIS Insurance, also effective April 1, 2014.&#160;&#160;&#160; </font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"><font 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Contact</font></div></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;"><div style="text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;">Linda Ventresca</font></div></td><td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;"><div style="text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;">Michael Herley</font></div></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;"><div style="text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;">AXIS Capital Holdings Limited</font></div></td><td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;"><div style="text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;">Kekst and Company</font></div></td></tr><tr><td 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style="line-height:120%;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;padding-left:48px;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:14pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;font-weight:bold;">AXIS CAPITAL ANNOUNCES MANAGEMENT TRANSITIONS</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:12.5pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.5pt;font-weight:bold;">&#160;&#160;</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;">-- Jack Gressier named AXIS Capital Chief Operating Officer --</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;">-- Dennis Reding to retire as Chief Operating Officer, appointed Senior Advisor -- </font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;">-- Peter Wilson Named Chief Executive Officer of AXIS Insurance -- </font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:12.5pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.5pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;padding-left:48px;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:180%;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;color:#003366;font-weight:bold;">Pembroke, Bermuda, March 25, 2014</font><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;color:#003366;">&#32;</font><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;">&#8211; AXIS Capital Holdings Limited (&#8220;AXIS Capital&#8221; or &#8220;the Company&#8221;) (NYSE:  AXS) announced today that John (&#8220;Jack&#8221;) Gressier, currently the Chief Executive Officer of AXIS Insurance, will become Axis Capital&#8217;s new Chief Operating Officer effective April 1, 2014. Mr. Gressier will assume the responsibilities of retiring Chief Operating Officer Dennis Reding.</font></div><div style="line-height:180%;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:180%;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;">In his new role, Mr. Gressier will oversee the Company&#8217;s global insurance operations, including broker relationships and distribution management, reinsurance purchasing and corporate risk protection activities. In addition, he will also have responsibility for the Company&#8217;s growing Accident &amp; Health business, which provides accident, specialty health and travel-related insurance and reinsurance solutions on a worldwide basis. 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Mr. Wilson will continue to be based in New York and will report to Mr. Gressier.</font></div><div style="line-height:180%;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:180%;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;">Commenting on the appointments, Albert Benchimol, President and CEO of AXIS Capital, remarked, &#8220;Having worked closely with Jack for several years, I have developed tremendous confidence in his management prowess, leadership skills and underwriting expertise.   His contributions as an architect of our international insurance platform have been invaluable to the growth and success of our organization. He is exceptionally well-suited to assume this critical role at AXIS Capital and take on responsibility for some of our most important strategic initiatives.&#8221; </font></div><div style="line-height:180%;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:180%;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;">Mr. Benchimol continued, &#8220;I am also very happy to announce Peter&#8217;s new role, and have every confidence in his ability to lead our insurance team globally in continued profitable growth. We are fortunate to have such a deep bench of talented executives such as Jack and Peter, who have the insurance expertise and track record of success that enables them to step into these roles and ensure the continued high performance.&#8221;  </font></div><div style="line-height:180%;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:180%;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;">Commenting on Mr. Reding&#8217;s new role upon his retirement as COO, Mr. Benchimol stated, &#8220;Dennis Reding&#8217;s contributions during his tenure at AXIS Capital cannot be overstated.  He established our Company&#8217;s U.S. operations and has been an integral part of our growth since he joined AXIS in 2002. We are fortunate for the time he served as our Chief Operating Officer, and more fortunate that we will have his continued presence at AXIS Capital as a Senior Advisor and member of our Executive Committee. I look forward to his ongoing counsel and support.&#8221;</font></div><div style="line-height:180%;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:180%;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;">John "Jack" W. Gressier Background:</font></div><div style="line-height:180%;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;">John "Jack" W. Gressier is currently Chief Executive Officer of AXIS Insurance.  Mr. Gressier has retained management responsibility for AXIS Capital&#8217;s international insurance operations since early 2002, shortly after the Company&#8217;s founding, and all insurance operations since 2007. Mr. Gressier has over 27 years of experience in the insurance industry. Prior to joining AXIS Capital, he served as an underwriter at Charman Underwriting Agencies from 1989 until 1998, when ACE Limited acquired that entity. At ACE, Mr. Gressier served as Deputy Underwriter of Syndicates </font></div><br><div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;">2</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;"><br></font></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><a name="s6A964FFEA14803BF25AAFA240D048C72"></a><div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:right;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font></div></div><br><div style="line-height:180%;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;">488/2488, Director of ACE Global Markets Underwriting Limited, Director of Marine and Specialty Lines for Syndicate 2488 and a member of ACE Global Markets Executive Underwriting Committee. In February 2001, Mr. Gressier was appointed Joint Active Underwriter of Syndicate 2488 and director of the ACE Agency Board, where he served until joining AXIS in 2002.</font></div><div style="line-height:180%;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:180%;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;">Peter Wilson Background:</font></div><div style="line-height:180%;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;">Peter Wilson joined AXIS Capital in May 2013 as President of U.S. Insurance.  Prior to this, he served as President and Chief Operating Officer for CNA Specialty, a unit of CNA Financial Corporation, which is focused on professional and management liability, healthcare, surety and other specialized insurance products and services. During his more than 20 years with CNA Financial Corporation, Mr. Wilson served in a number of leadership positions and had management responsibility for a diverse group of business units operating both in the U.S. and internationally. At the time of his departure from CNA, the Specialty Lines operation produced annual net premiums of $3 Billion. Prior to CNA, he served as an Executive Vice President at AIG, where he managed AIG&#8217;s commercial public D&amp;O business in the U.S. </font></div><div style="line-height:180%;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:180%;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;">Dennis B. Reding Background:</font></div><div style="line-height:180%;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;">Dennis B. Reding has served as Chief Operating Officer of AXIS Capital since January 2007. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Reding served as Chairman of AXIS Insurance since January 2005 and, from January 2003 until December 2004, he served as Chief Executive Officer of AXIS U.S. Insurance. Mr. Reding has 44 years of industry experience. Mr. Reding was President and Chief Executive Officer of Westchester Specialty Group from 1992 to 1998. He then served as President and Chief Executive Officer of ACE USA, Inc. from 1998 to 2001 and President of ACE INA Holdings, Inc. from 2001 to 2002. Mr. Reding was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Combined Specialty Group, Inc., an Aon subsidiary, in 2002.</font></div><div style="line-height:180%;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:180%;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;">About AXIS Capital</font></div><div style="line-height:180%;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;">AXIS Capital is a Bermuda-based global provider of specialty lines insurance and treaty reinsurance with total shareholders&#8217; equity attributable to AXIS Capital at December 31, 2013 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 &#8220;A+&#8221; (&#8220;Strong&#8221;) by Standard &amp; Poor&#8217;s and &#8220;A+&#8221; (&#8220;Superior&#8221;) by A.M. Best.  AXIS Capital and AXIS Specialty Finance LLC have been assigned senior unsecured debt ratings of A- (stable) by Standard &amp; Poor&#8217;s and Baa1 (stable) </font></div><br><div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;">3</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;"><br></font></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><a name="s6A964FFEA14803BF25AAFA240D048C72"></a><div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:right;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;"><br></font></div></div><br><div style="line-height:180%;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;">by Moody&#8217;s Investors Service.  For more information about AXIS Capital, visit our website at www.axiscapital.com.</font></div><div style="line-height:180%;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:180%;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;">###</font></div><br><div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;">4</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;"><br></font></div></div>	</body>
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