Paul Barrett
Assistant Director, Financial Regulation and Taxation, ABI

Paul Barrett is Assistant Director, Financial Regulation and Taxation at the Association of British Insurers (ABI). Paul's team lead on a number of strategic risk and regulatory issues including Solvency II, developing proposals to support the UK and European industry agenda, in partnership with the CEA and with other stakeholders. Paul co-ordinates the ABI's regulation priority work and was responsible for producing the Industry Guide to the ICA process and the ABI's unit linked guide of good practice. Previously he worked at the Financial Services Authority where he had responsibility for retail and consumer issues, working on the FSA's Handbook rules and policy governing mortgage endowments.

Gary Bass
Claims Consultant, Lloyd's Market Association

Gary is responsible for ensuring that Lloyd's claims activity is coordinated and consistent with London market requirements. He chairs the London Market Claims Strategy Group which has equal representation from companies, brokers and managing agents and reports into all three associations and he chairs the ECF user Group. Gary also engages in market liaison with the claims community and deals with market issues as they arise.

Lex Baugh
Managing Director, AIG UK

Alexander R. Baugh is Managing Director of AIG UK Limited and Regional President of Foreign General's UK/Ireland Division. He is responsible for the general insurance operations of American International Underwriters (AIU) in the UK and Ireland, based in London. AIU is AIG's international property-casualty insurance organization. He succeeds Daniel S. Glaser, who has left to pursue another opportunity.
Mr. Baugh joined AIU in 1983 as a financial lines underwriter. He subsequently held a succession of positions with AIU in New York, London and Paris and was most recently President of AIG Europe, S.A., and President of AIU's Continental European Region. He has also held various positions in AIG's Domestic Brokerage Group. Mr. Baugh is a graduate of the University of Virginia.

Tony Boobier
European Insurance Leader, IBM Performance Management and Business Intelligence

With a deep knowledge of the insurance industry gained over 25 years, Tony is well placed to comment on the topic of claims, especially property and flood in which he is a recognised international specialist. His expertise and knowledge particularly extends in the application of business and location intelligence to the insurance claims process, including claims cost reduction and service improvement.

Tony Brooke-Taylor
Head of Department Wholesale Insurance, FSA

Tony began his career in the General Insurance practice of Bacon & Woodrow and remained there through its absorption into Deloitte in 2001. In his ten years of consulting he performed a range of actuarial work and provided broader business advice, before taking the lead in developing Deloitte's Dynamic Financial Analysis (DFA) capability. In 2003 he moved to Aviva plc to lead their Risk Based Capital (RBC) project, and took responsibility for regulatory economic capital for the Aviva group. He has been at the FSA since March 2006, initially as Chief Actuary (General Insurance) and has been Head of Wholesale Insurance Firms since October 2007.

Stephen Catlin
Chief Executive and Deputy Chairman, Catlin Group Limited

Stephen Catlin began his insurance career in 1973 joining BL Evens & Others on Syndicate 264 at Lloyd's. In 1982 he became deputy underwriter, specialising in the excess of loss and energy accounts where he was supported as a market leader. He founded Catlin Underwriting Agencies Limited in 1984 and was the active underwriter of Syndicate 1003 and later Syndicate 2003 until May 2003. From September 1996 to January 2002, he was the Lloyd's nominated Director of Equitas Holdings Limited. He served as Chairman of the Lloyd's Market Association, the trade association representing the interests of Lloyd's underwriters and underwriting agents, from May 2000 until January 2003. He was a member of the Council of Lloyd's from 2002 to 2004 and a member of the Lloyd's Franchise Board from January 2003 until December 2006.

Kent Chaplin
Head of Claims, Lloyd's

Kent Chaplin qualified with honours as a barrister and solicitor in New Zealand, specialising in insurance and commercial litigation.
Relocating to the United Kingdom in 1996, Kent practised as an insurance solicitor for leading London law firm Herbert Smith, before his appointment as Claims Director for Aon Limited's Professional Risks division, specialising in financial institutions, professional indemnity and directors & officers' liability.
Kent joined Lloyd's in October 2004 as the Head of Claims to implement Lloyd's claims management strategy and to provide leadership on market-wide claims issues. In this role, he is responsible for defining and implementing the performance management framework for the Lloyd's market, including claims management principles and minimum standards and all aspects of claims operational reform, including, but not limited to the successful introduction and ongoing management of the electronic claim file initiative.

Paul Corver
Managing Director, ARC

Paul was co-opted onto the Board of Directors for ARC in November 2007, and appointed Chairman in November 2008.
Paul is Claims Director of KMS Ltd, now part of the Randall & Quilter group. Prior to co-founding KMS in 2006, he was Head of Claims at KWELM Management Services having been one of the core team which helped the provisional liquidators for the KWELM companies develop and implement the scheme of arrangement. He worked closely with the administrators and realised significant reserve reductions by pursuing commutations and buyouts, culminating in the finality of all KWELM claims under the bar date process.
He started his career in 1985 when he joined HS Weavers (Underwriting) Agencies(whose participants included the KWELM companies). He worked closely with the North American Casualty and Treaty underwriters. When Weavers went into run-off in 1990, he was involved in various attempted rescue packages and corporate projects before moving into claims.
Paul has travelled extensively throughout the US negotiating multimillion dollar settlements with policyholders and cedants. He has also spoken at a number of seminars and conferences in both the US and UK.

Christopher Croft
Head, Market Reform Office

Christopher Croft became Head of the Market Reform Office at the turn of the year. He joined MRO in February 2007 with primary responsibility for the MRO Communications and for supporting MRG. Prior to joining MRO Chris was practice leader for an outsourcing service provider, and before that worked in financial service regulation at the PIA and subsequently FSA.

Georg Daschner
Member of the Board of Management, Munich Re Group

Georg Daschner began his chartered insurance traineeship with Munich Re in 1965, following which he worked as an underwriter in the Regional Department: Latin America, Spain, Portugal and completed periods of work experience in Argentina and Venezuela.
In 1977, Georg Daschner was appointed initially deputy head and then head of Munich Re's business unit in Caracas. During that time he was to a great extent instrumental in developing the company’s reinsurance business in South America and in establishing Munich Re in the newly opened Chilean and Peruvian markets. On returning to Munich in 1988 he became head of the Latin America Market Department. His duties involved coordinating and developing business in the region together with management of the five Latin American business units. In 1996 Georg Daschner helped set up and became head of the new Divisional Unit: Latin America, the first to take the form of a profit centre. In 2000 Georg Daschner was put in charge of the business unit in Madrid.
In 2001 this unit was made a branch with profit responsibility for business in Spain and Portugal. He remained in this position until appointed to the Board of Management in 2003. In his capacity as Board member, he is responsible for Europe and Latin America Division.

John Davies
Managing Director, Marsh UK

John Davies leads the Marsh Risk Optimisation team which delivers risk finance solutions for multinational clients. Part of our Global Risk Management client group, he is a highly experienced insurance and risk management professional with twenty-two years practical client experience managing multinational insurance programmes and complex risk consulting engagements for global corporations. He has worked with clients throughout Europe and the Middle East, the United States, South America and Australasia.
He started his career as an insurance underwriter and joined Marsh in 1997. John has held several roles within the group, including; sales, management and delivery of enterprise risk management engagements, requiring the co-ordination, integration and implementation of MMCs broad risk management capabilities. His team has been recognised by industry through winning the Insurance Day Award for Broking Team of the Year in 2006 and also supporting a client for recognition at the International Risk Management Awards for the success and innovation of a complex risk consulting project.

Toby Esser
CEO, Cooper Gay & Co Ltd

Toby joined Cooper Gay in 1984 as a non marine property broker and led the team that launched and ran Cooper Gay's New York office in 1988.
He has been a board director since 1997 and was appointed as Group Chief Executive Officer in 2001. Since his appointment Cooper Gay has expanded rapidly both organically and through a number of strategic transactions, including the acquisition of Junge & Co. in Germany and various asset purchases in the UK.
Under his stewardship the revenue of the company has increased from £20 million to £83 million across 30 offices worldwide, profit has continued to increase each year and the number of shareholders grown above 100.

Matthew Fosh
CEO, Novae Group plc

Matthew Fosh joined Novae Group plc, a property and casualty insurance company, as Chief Executive in November 2002.
After leaving Cambridge University in 1979 he began his career in the UK stock market in the early 1980's. In 1988 he co-founded Seagray Fosh Futures Ltd, an equity and fixed income derivative trading business. He was Chief Executive of this business for 14 years, including three years in partnership with Chase Manhattan Bank, before selling the business in 2002 to ICAP plc, in London.
He is a former professional sportsman, having played cricket for three years for Essex in the late 1970's, and having played both cricket and rugby for England at Under 19 and Under 23 age group level.
Novae Group is an insurance company, with a premium income of approximately £350m. It undertakes the insurance and reinsurance of both property and liability classes, both in the UK and overseas.

Bob Foster
Group Director of Claims, Brit Insurance

Currently the Group Director of Claims for Brit Insurance, Bob Foster is the founder of founder of a Claims Consultancy Practice and was involved in major international insurance claims. As well as being former CEO of Thomas Howell Group (UK) Bob also has experience as a Chartered Loss Adjuster, responsible for the handling of insurance claims submitted by commercial entities and multi-national corporations, and as a Chartered Valuation Surveyor, involved in the valuation of company fixed assets for insurance and accounts purposes.
Bob represented the United Nations in Kuwait and European Governments in Palestine and was appointed Chairman of the LMA Claims Committee / Member of the Claims Services Review Board in 2008.

Hans-Peter Gerhardt
CEO, Paris Re Group

Hans Peter Gerhardt was appointed CEO of the Paris Re Group following the acquisition of the reinsurance business of AXA Re from the AXA Group. Hans-Peter Gerhardt had joined the AXA Group in 2003 as C.E.O of AXA RE and in addition served as Chairman of AXA Liabilities Managers (run-off operations). From 1988 to 2003 he held both underwriting and management functions for the Cologne Re Group which merged into General Cologne Re where he finished as a member of the group Executive Committee and as C.E.O of various underwriting divisions. His career in reinsurance began in 1981 with Hannover Re, upon his return from the United States where he had worked in management administration for the Astronautics Corp. of America.

Rob Gillies
Head of Market Processes, Lloyd's Market Association

Rob Gillies was appointed Head of Market Processes at the Lloyd's Market Association (LMA) in February 2007, following three years as Head of Communications. He joined the Non Marine Association (NMA) in March 1998 as technical executive and helped steer the NMA towards the merger with five other trade associations in 2001 to form the Lloyd's Market Association (LMA). He managed the LMA's non-marine activities during this transitional period.
As Head of Market Reform Policy at the LMA, Rob is primarily responsible for managing the LMA's contribution to market reform work across the market.
Prior to joining the NMA, Rob worked at a number of Lloyd's Broking firms dealing with a broad cross-section of non-marine classes of business. He held the position of Technical Director at Inbro Citygate.
Rob holds a degree of Master of Business Administration from Henley Management College. He is a member of the Institute of Management and enjoys skiing, cycling and other outdoor pursuits in his spare time. He lives in Kent.

Ewen Gilmour
CEO, Chaucer Holdings Group plc.

Ewen Gilmour is Chief Executive Officer for Chaucer Holdings Group plc. He is a chartered accountant and joined Chaucer in 1998. Formerly a corporate financier with Charterhouse Bank from 1980 to 1993, he joined the Corporation of Lloyd's to help facilitate the introduction of corporate capital to the Lloyd's market in 1993. He is a Deputy Chairman of Lloyd's, a member of the Council of Lloyd's and Chairman of the Lloyd's Market Association Market Processes Committee.

David Gittings
CEO, Lloyd's Market Association

David Gittings was appointed Chief Executive of the LMA in December 2006. From 1995 to 2002, David was Director of Regulation at Lloyd's of London. He was a founding director of the General Insurance Standards Council, where he served in a non-executive capacity from 1999 - 2002, and is currently a director of the Financial Services Skills Council. David served as the first chairman of the Lloyd's Market Association's Professional Standards Committee from November 2004 and in November 2006 was appointed chairman of the London Market Faculty Board of the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII). He has an honours degree in Law from London University and was called to the bar at Middle Temple.

Philip Grant
Chairman, Ambant Limited

Philip is Executive Chairman of Ambant Limited, which he set up in 2007, having run his own strategic legacy management consultancy since 1999. In 1995 he bought PanFinancial Insurance Company Limited, one of the first purchases of an insurance company in run-off to be sanctioned by the UK regulator. Prior to this he worked for 17 years in senior management positions for the Skandia Group, including establishing and managing its London Market run-off operations.
He sat on the Association of Run-Off Companies (ARC) board for the past seven years, and was Chairman for the last three, stepping down at the recent AGM. He holds non-executive directorships in City General Insurance Company Limited, of which he is Chairman, and Highlands Insurance Company (UK) Limited (in administration). He is a barrister by qualification.

Stephen Haddrill
Director General, ABI

Stephen Haddrill took up his post as the new Director General of the ABI on 3 May 2005.
Previously, Stephen was Director General, Fair Markets Group at the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), where he was responsible for the development of the framework within which business operates, including the competition and consumer framework, employment relations, company law, women and equality issues, and also trade and European issues. He held this position from January 2002.
Prior to this, from 1998 until Spring 2002, he held other positions within the DTI, including Director of Employment Relations, and Consumer Affairs. From 1994 to 1998 he was a director of the DTI's Competitiveness Unit, a central policy team reporting directly to the Secretary of State.
From 1990 to 1994 he left the UK civil service to work for the Hong Kong Government as a member of the Governor's Central Policy Unit.
Stephen studied history and economics at Oxford University and joined the Department of Energy in 1978 where he held a number of posts, principally on nuclear issues and as Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Energy.
In October 2007, Stephen was appointed Vice President and Chair of the Board of the Institute for Employment Studies, the UK's leading employment and human resources experts.

Simon Harris
Team Managing Director, Moody's Investors Service

Simon Harris is Team Managing Director with Moody's EMEA Insurance team, based in London. The team is responsible for maintenance of insurance financial strength and debt ratings across a wide variety of markets and insurance companies, including life, non-life, reinsurance and Lloyd's entities.
Mr. Harris joined Moody's in 1998 from the Co-Operative Insurance Society, and worked initially on analysis of UK and German life and non-life insurance Groups. In his position as Team Managing Director he is now responsible for the management and development of Moody's insurance business in the EMEA region.
Mr. Harris holds a B.A. in Economics from Leeds University, and is a Fellow of the UK Institute of Actuaries (FIA).

Robert Hiscox
Chairman, Hiscox

Robert Hiscox joined Hiscox in 1965 and has been Chairman of the main holding company of Hiscox since its incorporation in 1973. He was Deputy Chairman of Lloyd's between 1993 and 1995. He is a Non Executive Director of Grainger Trust plc.

John Hurrell
CEO, AIRMIC

John Hurrell took over as chief executive of the UK's risk management association Airmic in January 2008 Prior to becoming chief executive of Airmic, John Hurrell was head of Marsh Risk Consulting (Europe, Middle East and Africa). He had spent 29 years with Marsh, where he held senior leadership roles in both the risk consulting and insurance broking operations. He joined Sedgwick in 1978, and previously was with Royal Insurance, based in London.

Sebastian Hüskes
Managing Director, Munich Re Group

Born in 1958, Sebastian Hüskes studied law in Heidelberg (Germany), Toulouse (France) and Munich from 1978-1984. This was followed by a legal clerkship (1985-1987) in Munich and Sydney (Australia). He then joined the Munich Re as an underwriter for the Casualty Facultative Department for Asia in 1989. After a six-year delegation to Milan (Italy) from 1992 -1998 as a facultative casualty underwriter he joined the Facultative Casualty Unit for the UK, Northern and Eastern Europe in 1999 and in 2001 took on the position of Head of Facultative Department (all classes of business) for all Nordic Countries. Since January 2006 he has been Managing Director and General Manager of Munich Re's UK General Branch in London. Sebastian speaks German (native), English, French & Italian and is married with two sons.

Julian James
CEO, Lockton International

Julian James joined Lockton International in May 2007 as Executive Chairman, International Operations. In March 2008 he became Chief Executive Officer.
Prior to that, Mr James worked for Lloyds of London as Director, Worldwide Markets. He was appointed to that role in December 2000 and was responsible for all Lloyd's commercial activities outside the UK, including the management of its 74 trading licences and its international network. In addition he oversaw Lloyd's global branding and market development including Communications, media relations and Government affairs. Also he was member of the Executive Committee of Lloyd's. Mr James joined Lloyd's in December 1997 as Head of the North America Business Unit.
Previously he was Development Director of Sedgwick Energy and Marine and a member of the division's Executive Management Committee. Prior to that, he spent five years working in senior positions with Sedgwick in North America. He joined Sedgwick in 1981.
Mr James is an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute and is a Chartered Insurance Practioner. He gained an MBA from the Cranfield School of Management in 1991 and is also a graduate of the London Business School's Senior Executive Programme. He graduated in 2003 at the University of Oxford's Senior Executive Finance Programme.
He is a board member of the Lloyd's Community Programme and up until January 2005 was a board member of the General Insurance Standards Council. Also, he is Vice President of the Chartered Insurance Institute in the UK and a Vice President of the London Insurance Institute.
Mr James is married with two children and lives in West London.

Henry Johnson
Head of Market Risk and Reserving Unit and Lloyd's Actuary, Lloyd's

Henry Johnson has been Head of Lloyd's Market Reserving and Capital (MRC) since March 2001 and the Lloyd's Actuary since June 2002. The MRC carries out capital modelling for Lloyd's and was responsible for the Risk Based Capital system which was used to set capital requirements for members of the Society based on the riskiness of their portfolios. With the introduction of the ICAS regime, the emphasis in capital modelling work has shifted to one of setting standards, analysing syndicates’ ICA work and providing a system to set member capital requirements using ICAS as a basis. Other capital modelling tasks include measuring the overall risk to the Central Fund and providing management with advice on the effect of different capital structures.
Before joining Lloyd's, Henry was Head of Actuarial Services at Swiss Re UK, the reinsurer's London Market non-life operation.

Andrew Keefe
Casualty Broker - RMP Placement, Marsh

29 years in London Market, underwriting multi-line programmes for UK based multi-national and large corporate clients with Royal and later RSA before joining Marsh
Programme design & broking for Marsh since 1997
Specialising in Casualty classes
Handling UK based Global & large Corporate risks for clients in the Engineering, Chemicals, Retail, Food & Beverage, Technology & Power and Utility sectors
Client experience includes Airbus, Babcock ,BOC, Burberry, De Vere, G4S, GEC, Honeywell, International Power, Invensys, EDF Energy, John Wood Group, Ladbrokes, National Grid, QinetiQ, Ready Mix, RWE, Scottish & Newcastle, Shanks Waste, Shell, Southern Electric, Tesco, United Biscuits.

Andrew Kendrick
CEO & Chairman, ACE European Group

Andrew Kendrick was appointed to the position of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, ACE European Group in November, 2004. In his role he oversees the operations of over 2000 ACE employees in 19 European countries, in addition to ACE's expanding presence in Russia and the MENA region. Prior to his appointment, he served as President & Chief Executive Officer, ACE Bermuda.
Mr Kendrick joined ACE in 1996, bringing with him almost 20 years of insurance industry experience. Originally working in London, Mr Kendrick's previous position at ACE was as Director of Underwriting and Active Underwriter of Syndicate 2488 at Lloyd's, which forms ACE Global Markets.
Mr Kendrick started his career at Sturge Syndicate 210 in 1978. With a focus on underwriting the Financial Institutions account, Mr Kendrick held various positions within that syndicate and other syndicates owned by the Sturge Group. Mr Kendrick has worked at ACE since ACE purchased Ockham Underwriting Agency (previously known as Sturge Underwriting Agency).
Beyond ACE, from January 2006 until April 2007 Mr Kendrick was Chairman of the London Market Association (LMA) and he remains a Director of the LMA. Mr Kendrick was re appointed to the Lloyd's Franchise Board as a Non-Executive Director in February 2007. Mr Kendrick was also a member of the London Insurance Market Review Group, led by the Chairman of Lloyd's and tasked by the former Chancellor, Gordon Brown, to determine what steps could be taken in order to help ensure that London remains the number one wholesale market for global (re)insurance.

Stephan Knipper
Executive VP & Deputy CEO, Axis Re

Stephan Knipper was appointed Executive Vice President of Underwriting and Deputy CEO for Axis Re Europe in October 2003.
Prior to joining Axis, Stephan was with Gerling Global Re Group. He served as Chief Underwriter for Casualty; Credit and Marine, Managing Director of Gerling Global General and Re London and later on Board member of Gerling Global Re Group. He has 20 years of reinsurance experience. Stephan began his career with an international law firm and accountancy firm. He has degrees in Law and Economics.

RT HON Lord Lamont of Lerwick
Former UK Chancellor

Lord Lamont (Norman Lamont) has been at the centre of British politics for many years and was the Conservative M.P. for Kingston upon Thames for 25 years. He was a Cabinet Minister under both Margaret Thatcher and John Major. He was heavily involved in the Thatcher reforms including privatisation that transformed the British economy.
Norman Lamont was Chancellor of the Exchequer from l990-l993 and introduced three Budgets; his staff included a young David Cameron. This was a difficult and controversial time with a deep recession and Britain's exit from the ERM on "Black Wednesday".
Despite all the criticisms made at the time, today many economists consider that the tough decisions taken laid the foundations for the boom that started in l992 and continued up until recently. Sir Alan Walters, economic advisor to Lady Thatcher, in a letter to the Times described Lord Lamont in his post ERM situation "to be not only the most effective but also the bravest Chancellor since the war".
Norman Lamont published a self-deprecating and amusing account of his time as Chancellor under the title "In Office". His book was described in the Independent newspaper as "Out of the top drawer of political memoirs". He was made a Life Peer in July 1998.
Prior to becoming a MP Norman Lamont was a Merchant Banker with NM Rothschild and Sons.
He is currently a director of Balli Group plc, and a director of a number of other financial companies.
Norman Lamont is a regular contributor to the financial media and a sought after commentator.

Sue Langley
Director of Market Operations & North America, Lloyd's

Sue Langley is Director of Market Operations and North America for Lloyd's. She was a member of the London Market Reform Group, a group of senior executives representing the market and chaired the Market Reform Executive Group. Sue formally chaired and was spokesperson for the 'G6' - a group of six Lloyd's managing agents formed in January 2004 to identify practical opportunities to streamline and improve Lloyd's market processes.
Prior to joining Lloyd's Sue was Chief Operating Officer (COO) for the Hiscox Group, a specialist insurer with one of the largest syndicates at Lloyd's. Her career began as a Principal Consultant with PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Sue specialised in change management and worked with a range of FTSE 100 companies. Before PWC Sue worked with Thomson Tour Operations, focusing on programme management.
Sue studied geography at Southampton University and then travelled solo around the world for a year and a half. During this time Sue worked both at the Stock Exchange in Australia and as an environmentalist on a program to protect the Great Barrier Reef.

Richard Lewis
Director of Underwriting, R J Kiln & Co Ltd

Richard Lewis joined Kiln as part of the graduate training scheme in 1984. In 1987 he joined the property underwriting team and was promoted to deputy underwriter of Syndicate 510's property and special lines division in 2001.
Richard was appointed deputy director of underwriting in 2005 and in 2007 he joined the R J Kiln & Co Limited board as director of underwriting. He is also a director of Kiln Trustees Ltd.

Neil Maidment
Head of Reinsurance, Beazley

Neil is the Chairman of the Group Underwriting Committee and Head of Beazley's Reinsurance division. After graduating from St Edmund Hall, Oxford, he began his career at Lloyd's in 1984, writing the Non-Marine Treaty account. He joined Beazley in 1990 and was appointed to the Board in 1993. Neil is a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute.

Dave Matcham
CEO, International Underwriting Association of London

Dave Matcham is Chief Executive of the International Underwriting Association of London (IUA). The IUA (www.iua.co.uk) is the market association representing insurance and reinsurance companies writing international business centred on London.
Prior to joining IUA at its formation on 31 December 1998, he worked for 18 years for the Institute of London Underwriters - a trade association for marine and aviation insurers in London originally established in 1884. ILU merged with LIRMA to form IUA on 31 December 1998 with Dave being appointed Director of Operations. He became Chief Executive of the IUA on 17 March 2005.
Dave became an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute in 1986 and obtained his Fellowship (specialising in aviation) in 1989. He still takes an active role in the CII, having served twice as president of one its regional institutes.
Dave also acts as Chairman of the Market Issues Committee, Insurance Institute of London and is a member of the London Market Faculty Board. He was made a Fellow of the Institute of Association Managers in October 2006.

Stephen May
Chief Executive Officer, Heritage London and Middle East

Stephen has over 28 years experience in the international insurance and reinsurance arena, specialising in Global Specialty lines including Aviation, Space and Retrocessional business.
Stephen joined Heritage in February 2006. He leads the London and Middle East Teams and is a member of the Holding Company Board.
Prior to joining Heritage, Stephen held numerous senior positions within the London broking market, including at Johnson & Higgins, Marsh and most recently as Team Leader of Global Specialty Reinsurance at Benfield Group.
Stephen is a regular speaker at international conferences, presenting on issues including captive insurance, risk management and the Middle Eastern insurance market.
Stephen is married, with five children.

Costas Miranthis
CEO, PartnerRe Global
CEO, Partner Reinsurance Europe Limited

As CEO of PartnerRe Global and CEO of Partner Reinsurance Europe Limited, Costas Miranthis is responsible for the executive management of all operations at PartnerRe Global and is a member of the PartnerRe Group Executive Committee.
Prior to his appointment to CEO, PartnerRe Global in July 2008, Costas Miranthis was Deputy CEO, PartnerRe Global responsible for the management for all business units at PartnerRe Global.
Costas joined PartnerRe in 2002 as Chief Actuary with responsibility for PartnerRe's Actuarial and IT functions. Prior to joining PartnerRe, Costas spent 16 years with Tillinghast - Towers Perrin in London U.K., most recently as Principal. His responsibilities included managing the European Non Life Practice and the Mergers and Acquisitions European Practice. He was also a member of Tillinghast Worldwide Non-Life Management Committee.
Mr. Miranthis holds a MA in Economics from Christ’s College, Cambridge University, U.K. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries.

Roger A Oldham BA (Hons), FCII, MCIArb, Chartered Insurance Broker
Head of Market Practice, HSBC Insurance Brokers

Eric Paire
MD, Guy Carpenter

Managing Director Eric Paire is a member of Guy Carpenter's Executive Sales Group and also leads the firm's European Global Clients group, a team comprising senior executives of the firm's key European clients, as well as capital market, market intelligence, sales, and specialty line representatives. In this role, he is responsible for developing and coordinating initiatives for enterprise risk management, capital management, and corporate finance advisory aimed at assisting Guy Carpenter's global clients in Europe. He is also a member of the firm's Continental European Executive Committee.
Eric joined the firm from NessPa Holding, a company he co-founded to manage reinsurance run-off. Prior to that, he participated in the creation and development of Nexgen Financial Solutions Ltd., which offered capital and risk management services to corporate and financial institutions, including derivatives, reinsurance and securitization. Eric also previously spent more than seven years in the AXA group where he held various underwriting and management positions within AXA Re, including Chairman of AXA Re Finance and CEO of the AXA Re Paris office.
Eric graduated from French Ecole Polytechnique, ENSAE (Ecole Nationale d la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique) and is a fellow of the French Institute of Actuaries.

Victor Peignet
CEO, Scor Global P&C SE

Victor Peignet, a Marine Engineer and graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Techniques Avancées (ENSTA), joined the Facultative Department of SCOR in 1984 from the offshore oil sector. From 1984 to 2001, he held various positions in underwriting Energy and Marine Transport risks at SCOR, first as an underwriter and then as Branch Director. He has led the Group's Business Solutions (facultative) division since it was created in 2000, as both Deputy Chief Executive Officer and then as Chief Executive Officer since April 2004. On 5 July 2005, Victor Peignet was appointed manager of all Property Reinsurance operations at SCOR Global P&C. He is currently Chief Executive Officer of SCOR Global P&C SE.

David Russell
Director of Risk and Governance, Barbican Insurance

David has in-depth experience of risk, regulation and regulatory policy from all sides of the fence. He is Director of Risk and Governance at the Barbican Insurance Group. Prior to that he was Head of Regulatory Affairs at RSA Group, where he coordinated the group's activities on Solvency II, making an active contribution at European institutions and at industry working groups. With regulatory experience going back to the mid 80s, David joined the FSA at its inception where he was responsible for the supervision of Lloyd's, developing and implementing much of the new FSA regime for the market. He moved within FSA to develop and implement the prudential requirements for insurance intermediaries, before joining Lloyd's in a senior compliance role where amongst other things he helped oversee the introduction of ICAS.

Ian Summers
Director of Change Strategy, Aon Benfield
MD e-business and Market Reform, Aon Ltd

Ian has worked for Aon for over 20 years. Starting his career in the claims department of Alexander Howden he performed a number of operational roles before becoming the Managing Director of Reinsurance Operations.
Following on from this he then spent 18 months in Aon's Technology Divisions helping to develop Aon's "Aon Broking Connections" Client and Market applications.
He is an active participant in many of the Markets Reform Programmes and in his current role of Managing Director -eBusiness and Market Reform his primary focus is to enhance procedures, both within the Aon Network and in the market to constantly improve the service to Aon's Clients.

Harutoshi Tagaya
CEO, Tokio Marine Global Ltd.

Harutoshi has served Tokio Marine for nearly 30 years and during his tenure he was seconded to Lloyd's Japan for two years in its start up operation.
He has a wide range of experience in both domestic and international business including Branch Manager of San Francisco.
His academic background is Bachelor of Law at Hitotsubashi University and MBA Harvard Business School, Class of 1988.

Robert Van Gieson
Chairman, Arch Insurance Company (Europe)

Bob Van Gieson is a seasoned property and casualty executive with extensive international credentials; establishing strategic alliances, expanding products and markets, and negotiating complex agendas. Bob has significant experience integrating acquisitions, divesting non-strategic businesses and creating high performing teams. Bob joined Arch Insurance in 2003 to establish the European operation, and in just four years has led the company to produce profitable revenue of $500m in 2007. Bob began his insurance career with Chubb Corporation, culminating in his appointment as Chairman and Chief Executive of Chubb Europe. Prior to joining Arch, Bob was CEO Global Operations for CNA.

Richard Ward
Chief Executive, Lloyd's

Richard Ward joined Lloyd's as Chief Executive Officer in April 2006.
Previously, Richard worked for over ten years at the London-based International Petroleum Exchange (IPE), re-branded ICE Futures, as both Chief Executive Officer and Vice-Chairman.
Prior to the IPE, Richard held a range of senior positions at British Petroleum (BP) and was Head of Marketing & Business Development for energy derivatives worldwide at Tradition Financial Services.
Between 1982 and 1988, Richard worked as a Senior Physicist with the Science and Engineering Research Council, leading a number of research and development projects.
Richard Ward has a 1st Class Honours degree in Chemistry, and a PhD in Physical Chemistry from Exeter University. He is married with two children and lives in London.

David Watson
CEO & President, XL Re Europe Limited

David Watson is President and CEO of XL Re Europe Limited, the fully licensed European reinsurance platform of the XL Capital group of companies. Prior to his appointment in 2006 he was the General Manager for XL Re in London.
Before joining the XL Capital group of companies, he was Executive Director and Chief Casualty Underwriter of NAC Re, which he joined in 1993. David Watson commenced his business career with the Norwich Union Insurance Company, subsequently moving to reinsurance with Victory Re and NWRe.
He is a former Director of the IUA in London and a former Chairman of the Technical Underwriting Executive Committee of the IUA.
He is an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute in the UK.

Colin Whickman
Co-founder, Scyllogis Consulting

Colin co-founded Scyllogis Consulting in 2001 and is also the most senior consultant within the company. He has 22 years experience in insurance IT gained within supply side organisations. Before founding Scyllogis, Colin held managing board level roles within a significant insurance software and services company, where he had responsibility for managing software development and system implementation programs in Europe, North America, Bermuda and the Far East. In 1995 Colin ran the US region for this company and oversaw a 130% increase in business. In 1999 he formed a new European division that quickly won major system replacement programs for Winthertur International (Now XL Insurance), AXA and ACE.
Colin has a BSc in Chemistry from London University. He lives in London.