Universal Insurance Holdings announced the appointment of Arash Soleimani as Chief Strategy Officer and promoted Rob Luther and Gary Ropiecki to Chief Investment Officer and Principal Accounting Officer, respectively. Mr. Soleimani will oversee the strategy and investor relations functions and Mr. Ropiecki will oversee Universal's enterprise-wide accounting and reporting functions. Mr. Soleimani was previously Executive Vice President and Director of Investor Relations at Heritage Insurance Holdings, Inc., a property and casualty insurer.

Before Heritage, Mr. Soleimani was a Director in the equity research division of Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, a financial services investment bank, where he focused on the property and casualty insurance industry. Mr. Luther previously served as the Vice President of Corporate Development, Strategy & Investor Relations for Universal. Prior to this, he served in the Corporate Strategy and M&A group at L3Harris Technologies where he supported transformational acquisitions, developed strategic growth plans, and led inorganic portfolio shaping optimization efforts.

Mr. Ropiecki previously served as the Senior Vice President and Corporate Controller at Universal and continues to serve as Corporate Secretary. Mr. Ropiecki started his career at Deloitte and his experience includes roles at Hannover Re, Torus Insurance, KPMG and E&Y.