KAI BOCKELMANN

Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

Kai Bockelmann is the CEO of our firm. He joined HiSV in 2010. Before Kai joined HiSV, he spent ten years with a large industrial broker, responsible for their sports business in the EMEA region.

He holds a commercial law degree and has comprehensive knowledge in the fields of complex liability and sports personal accident programmes. Kai has also extensive experience in major event related risks and insurance solutions and specialises in the handling of complex claims.

Kai Bockelmann was also appointed to the Board of Howden Deutschland AG, Munich, with effect from October 1st, 2023.

CAREER

1999 – 2001 SportSecure Insurance Brokers AG, Hamburg / Triagon Versicherungsmakler GmbH, Hamburg
2001 – 2010
Aon, Hamburg – Managing Director Sport, Recreation & Entertainment Practice Group (EMEA Region)
since April 2010 Himmelseher Sports Insurance
Registered Manager (2010 – 2012)
Member of the Management Board (2012 – 2019)
Chief Executive Officer (since October 2019)
since October 2023 Board Member of Howden Deutschland AG

EDUCATION

Studies of Commercial Law Lüneburg University
Degree: Commercial Lawyer (1999)

Thesis: Tortious Liability Risks of the Sports Event Organiser and their Insurability

MEMBERSHIPS

Stiftung Sicherheit im Sport [Foundation for Safety in Sports]: Member of the Supervisory Board

Freunde der Nationalmannschaft des Deutschen Fussball-Bundes e.V. [Friends of the National Team of the German Football Association]: Member of the Management Board

Stiftung des Württembergischen Landessportbundes [Foundation of Württembergischen Landessportbund]: Member of the Management Board

PUBLICATIONS

Bockelmann, Kai: Versicherungsmanagement im professionellen Sportbereich in Sportmanagement [Insurance Management in the Professional Athletic Field in Sports Management] (Galli/Elter/Gömmel/Holzhäuser/Straub (publ.), 2012, pp. 259 – 275

Bockelmann, K. and Prehn, J.: Profifußball – Mehrkosten als offene Flanke [Professional Football – additional costs as open flank], in: VW 10/2004, pp. 44 – 46

Bockelmann, K. and Görling, J.: Profifußball im Fokus der Versicherer [Professional Football in the Focus of Insurers], in: Finanzierung des Sports [Sports Financing], 2002, publ. Heinz-Dieter Horch, pp. 80-88

Bockelmann, K.: Sportinvalidität im Profifußball: Auf Messers Schneide [Permanent Disability from Sports in Professional Football: pushing the edge], in W 2/2002, pp. 112 – 116

Bockelmann, K. and Walther, M.: Die gesetzliche Haftpflicht bei Sportveranstaltungen [Statutory Liability for Sports Events], in : VW 10/99, pp. 715 – 718

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