The Hartford has named Shekar Pannala chief information officer (CIO) for Property & Casualty, effective March 13. In this newly created role, Pannala will lead technology across the company's Personal Lines, Small Commercial and Middle & Large Commercial businesses. He will report to The Hartford's Chief Information Officer Deepa Soni, who leads technology, data, analytics and cyber security across the enterprise.

Pannala's broad technology experience was built over a 30-year career of increasing responsibility. Most recently, he served as the global CIO of Chubb where he was responsible for technology across the enterprise. Before Chubb, Pannala was chief technology officer at S&P Global.

He also held senior management roles at BNY Mellon, where he was executive vice president and divisional chief information officer responsible for asset servicing technology.