Big Gun Peter Wedge Joins Testudo as General Counsel

Testudo is pleased to announce the appointment of Peter Wedge FCII as General Counsel, effective 1 November 2025.

Wedge brings nearly four decades of experience in insurance and reinsurance. He was recently Director of Cyber Wordings at Gallagher Re in addition to chairing the Cyber Insurance Association and the Reinsurance Wordings Expert Forum and holding committee positions across BIBA, the IUA, AIDA Europe, and the Insurance Institute of London.

His career includes twelve years at Swiss Re Zurich, including ten years as Reinsurance Contracts Counsel, alongside Global Head of Claims Solutions roles at SCOR/Converium in New York and Zurich.

Wedge is a published author. His most recent work, Digital Assets & Insurance (Insurance Institute of London, 2025), builds on award-winning contributions such as Cyber Risks Insurance (Sweet & Maxwell 2022, BILA Book Prize 2023) and technical publications for the Chartered Insurance Institute and Singapore College of Insurance . He has lectured at UCL, Zurich University, and the AIDA international conference.

“AI brings both enormous potential and novel exposures,” said Wedge. “My goal at Testudo is to ensure that coverage keeps pace with innovation. When I first met George and Mark, I immediately felt their vision matched my own — pragmatic, technical, and ambitious. It’s an ideal partnership for defining the next chapter of AI risk insurance.”

George Lewin-Smith: “Peter brings 40+ years of best in class legal insurance experience to our team across specialist wordings, claims management and contract counsel. This is a crucial foundation for our business, especially as we are initially focussed on AI liability risk, and we couldn’t be more excited for him to be joining.”