Aurenity Appoints John Woie as EVP to lead entry into E&S Property market


John Woie
EVP
WEST HARTFORD, CT, August 18th, 2025 – Tech-enabled E&S MGA Aurenity is pleased to announce the appointment of John Woie as Executive Vice President of its new property business. This strategic hire underlines Aurenity’s ongoing commitment to building a fully diversified E&S platform, marking its fifth program since launch in 2022.
John Woie brings nearly 20 years of E&S underwriting experience with a proven ability to build and scale property portfolios. Most recently, he served as Head of U.S. Property at Kemah Capital, where he built the division from the ground up into a sustainable, profitable program for blue-chip capacity partners through disciplined underwriting, targeted market expansion, and robust national wholesale relationships. Earlier in his career, John held senior underwriting roles at Everest Re and Partner Re, specializing in large, complex risk underwriting and management of automatic facultative facilities.
“We are thrilled to welcome John to our leadership team,” said Nick Davies, CEO of Aurenity. “His deep property underwriting expertise and demonstrated success in establishing profitable, scalable platforms will be accretive as we broaden our reach into property. We continue to marry market leading talent with differentiated pricing technology to deliver underwriting discipline, best in class service and healthy returns for our partners and investors.”
Douglas Trainor, CUO of Aurenity, added: “John’s strategic vision and passion for leveraging technology are a natural fit with our underwriting culture. His ability to pair risk selection with an entrepreneurial talent for building high-performing teams makes him the ideal leader to drive our diversification into short-tail segments.”
In his new role, John will build a portfolio targeting mid-large market E&S property on both primary and low excess layers for national clients with exclusive wholesale distribution.
About Aurenity
Aurenity is blending market leading talent with cutting edge underwriting analytics, bringing a different MGA approach to the E&S market. Founded by underwriting experts with a common interest in innovation, our team shares over a century of experience at top tier carriers. Harnessing our sophisticated ‘Augment’ risk models, our underwriters have access to better data and smarter analytics to deliver cross cycle profit for our partners.
Aurenity, where expertise meets innovation.
Learn more at www.aurenity.com.



