By James Thaler

Feb 5 - Resilience’s CUO and COO for global insurance ops Killian Brady has resigned from the company after only eight months in his post, and is joining Old Republic’s new cyber venture, along with longtime product director Sam Lisi, Cyber Risk Insurer can reveal.

Details on Brady and Lisi’s new roles with Old Republic could not immediately be confirmed.

Cyber Risk Insurer broke the news in early January that Old Republic International hired former Resilience and Beazley underwriting executives Charles “CJ” Pruzinsky and Kevin McGowan to work on its entry into cyber insurance.

Both executives had been with the cyber insurtech for around five years. Brady took up his most recent role in July 2024, having been promoted to the post following the departures of former global head of underwriting and sales CJ Pruzinsky and former CUO Kevin McGowan.

Brady had previously spent a little over a year as COO for underwriting, sales, and distribution, after earlier serving as SVP and VP. He joined Resilience in February 2020 following a short stint with Allianz after previously working at Beazley and AIG.

Lisi joined Resilience in December 2019 after previously working at Beazley.

Their exits mark the latest turnover at the insurtech, with other notable departures in the last year and a half including head of international Kyle Bryant who joined Coalition, chief claims officer Mike Phillips who joined CFC, and former North America claims head Linda Comerford.

In January, Cyber Risk Insurer reported that Resilience grew premiums by more than 40 percent to around $180mn and policy count by 57 percent in 2024, but that its top-line premium figure was about 90 percent to budget.

In an interview, Resilience co-founder and CEO Vishaal “V8” Hariprasad and president Mario Vitale doubled-down on plans to grow written premiums by 65 percent to $300mn in 2025, despite generally soft market conditions.

They also sought to dispel any notion that changes within its management ranks had anything to do with the missed premium target and defended the fact that the insurtech has “extremely lofty” targets it aims for, outside the range of what is commonly found across the insurance industry.

A spokesperson confirmed that Brady and Lisi would be departing the firm at the end of this week and highlighted the fact that it grew headcount by 40 percent in 2024 and has already hired 16 new staff in 2025.