Cowbell names Denise Pagliarulo CFO, promotes Eric Biderman to common counsel

Cowbell, a supplier of cyber insurance coverage for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and middle-market companies, has appointed Denise Pagliarulo, a finance veteran previously with AXIS Capital and Deloitte, to guide its finance crew.

On this new function, Pagliarulo will oversee international finance operations as the corporate expands its merchandise, providers, and geographic presence.

Pagliarulo joins Cowbell after a 12-year tenure at AXIS Capital, the place she most lately served as senior vice chairman and head of finance for North America. Earlier than becoming a member of AXIS, she held the function of vice chairman of inner audit at American Security Insurance coverage and served as a senior supervisor in insurance coverage at Deloitte.

Along with this new appointment, Cowbell has promoted Eric Biderman to common counsel. Biderman will proceed to handle the corporate’s authorized and regulatory compliance capabilities whereas supporting efforts to scale operations and enhance market penetration.

Biderman has been with Cowbell for 3 years and beforehand spent over 16 years in non-public observe, together with a task as counsel within the Insurance coverage and Reinsurance Observe Group at an AmLaw Prime 100 agency.

Biderman, who has been with Cowbell since its inception, has helped develop the corporate’s operations to the UK and India, and led the institution of risk-bearing entities, together with a surplus traces insurance coverage provider and a reinsurance captive.

Cowbell’s founder and CEO, Jack Kudale, stated that Pagliarulo brings over 20 years of expertise within the insurance coverage business and is well-positioned to assist the corporate navigate its subsequent section of progress.

“We’re thrilled to welcome Denise to Cowbell as we scale up our choices in assist of our imaginative and prescient to handle industrial digital danger for international SMEs,” Kudale stated.

Kudale additional famous that 2023 has been a 12 months of progress for Cowbell, marked by the closing of its Sequence C funding spherical, a 12 months of operations within the UK, and the enlargement of its US providing to companies with as much as $1 billion in annual revenues.

“As we enter this subsequent chapter of our journey and look to develop our policyholder base, I’m assured that each Denise and Eric’s management will speed up that speedy progress,” he stated.

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