Global executive search firm Odgers Berndtson have appointed executive search consultants Pat Corey and Paul Hanson to the firm’s US insurance practice as partners in the Chicago office.

Corey has more than 25 years’ experience as an executive recruiter specialising in the insurance sector. Before joining Odgers Berndtson, he was a senior client partner in the insurance and financial services practice at Korn/Ferry International. He had joined that firm from Heidrick & Struggles, where he was a partner, also focusing on assignments within the insurance sector.

Hanson has more than 15 years of insurance-specific executive search experience. Before joining Odgers Berndtson, he was a consultant at executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles, where he specialised in insurance-focused searches with an emphasis on the life, annuity, health, and property and casualty businesses.