Karim Hirji was appointed Executive-Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of RSA UK & International in February 2025. In this role, he oversees the financial affairs and strategic implementation for the business. Previously, Karim was Senior Vice-President, Integration where he led the transfer of the DLG brokered business into RSA. He created and led Intact Ventures, the corporate venture capital division of Intact Financial, as the Managing Director from 2015 to 2025. He began his career at Intact in 2001 and has worked in underwriting, commercial research and development, distribution, and created the Intact artificial intelligence lab in Hong Kong in 2019 before assuming the CFO Canada position in 2021.
Karim is a Chartered Insurance Professional and holds an Executive MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario, as well as a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours in Finance) from the University of British Columbia.