Tom Rutter has been appointed chief executive officer of North P&I Club’s subsidiary Sunderland Marine, an international insurer of fishing vessels, small craft and aquaculture risks.
Rutter succeeds Geoff Parkinson, who retired in June this year after 19 years at the helm. Parkinson played a major role in negotiating Sunderland Marine’s acquisition by the 170 million GT ‘A’ rated North in February 2014.
Rutter has been with Sunderland Marine for over 35 years, having joined as a claims assistant in 1979. He later moved into marine underwriting and in 1992 transferred to the aquaculture department. He rose to become an associate director, later a director and the department’s managing director in 2010.