Isabelle Cadignan

Since joining Howden in 2013, Isabelle has held a number of roles. Most notably, building the Howden One network, which extended the Group’s global reach to 100+ territories. In 2022 Isabelle was appointed Chief of Staff and Head of Planning for the Howden Broking Division.  During that period, Isa focused on aligning and organising strategic priorities with other members of the senior leadership team.

In October 2023 Isa joined the Climate Risk & Resilience team as Chief Commercial Officer, to promote our CRR team and embed its proposition across Howden internationally. 

Prior to joining Howden, Isabelle has held a number of positions at KPMG (9 years, Paris, London and NYC) and Marsh Mclennan (6 years) where she was first appointed as Financial Controller for EMEA and then C.O.O for the UK Affinity Division.   Subsequently she spent 3 years at an Insurance provider start-up (Asurion Europe) as Launch Director responsible for the full implementation of business solutions including IT.

Isabelle is both a French and British national, originally from the island of Martinique in the French Caribbean.