Andrew Horton

David A. Horton (born 14 March 1962) is the Group CEO of QBE Insurance (QBE), an Australian Insurance company. Prior, he was the chief executive of Beazley Group (BG) a European insurance company. He was appointed as Beazley CEO on 1 September 2008. Horton was born in Manchester and brought up in Bedfordshire where he attended Bedford School before reading natural sciences at Cambridge. He was appointed to the Man Group board in August 2013 as a non executive director. He was previously finance director of BG and has been on the board since June 2003. Prior to that, he was the UK chief financial officer at ING and was the deputy global chief financial officer and global head of finance for the equity markets division of ING Barings, having held various financial positions with the company since January 1997. He qualified as a chartered accountant with Coopers and Lybrand in 1987. In March 2021, Andrew Horton was announced as the next Group CEO of QBE Insurance.