Accountability

Executive Biographies

Kevin Allchorne
Head of Reinsurance

Kevin joined Amlin in 1992 after graduating from Liverpool University in Economics and Maths. He began work on both the Direct Property and Casualty accounts before moving across to the treaty account to underwrite the Risk Excess of Loss and the North American Catastrophe XL classes of business in 1996. Kevin assumed responsibility for Amlin’s reinsurance classes in February with his appointment confirmed in June 2008.

Kevin is a member of the Lloyd’s Non-Marine business panel.

Experience
Amlin: 16 years
Market: 16 years

Simon Beale
Underwriting Director, Amlin London

Simon has specialised in marine hull business since joining Lloyd’s in 1984 and is recognised as an international leader in this field. In addition to heading the Marine business unit, Simon was promoted to Underwriting Director of Amlin London in June 2008. Simon is a previous chairman to both London’s Joint Hull Committee and the Ocean Hull Committee of the International Union of Marine Insurance. During 2008 he also represented the London market on IUMI’s Executive Committee. Simon is an elected member of Lloyd’s Market Association Marine Committee, a member of Lloyd’s Register General Committee and a Trustee of the London Maritime Officer Cadets Scheme.

Experience
Amlin: 14 years
Market: 24 years

Chris Brittain
Claims Manager, Amlin Bermuda

Chris began his career as a non-marine claims broker with RTC in 1980. From 1984 onwards, he worked for several underwriting agencies including Drysdale, Bankside, Whittington and Murray Lawrence, before the latter became part of Amlin in 2000. His wide experience of non-marine and reinsurance claims resulted in his appointment to the new role of Claims Manager for Amlin Bermuda in October 2008.

Experience
Amlin: 15 years Industry: 25 years

Andrew Churchill
General Manager, Amlin UK

Andrew graduated in Maths from Imperial College and trained as a chartered accountant with Deardon Farrow. Following three years as an insurance auditor with Neville Russell, Andrew joined BPC underwriting agencies working on financial reporting and syndicate monitoring. He moved to Amlin Insurance Services in 2000 and is currently General Manager of the UK commercial business.

Experience
Amlin: 21 years Industry: 24 years

Duncan Dale
Head of Property & Casualty

Duncan started out in the insurance industry in 1982, in the London company reinsurance sector, before entering Lloyd’s in 1989. Duncan assumed responsibility for Amlin’s insurance and specialty classes in February with his appointment confirmed in June 2008. Duncan is an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute and Chairman of the LMA Casualty Reinsurance Business Panel.

Experience
Amlin: 14 years
Market: 21 years

Rod Dampier
Head of Aviation

Rod began his underwriting career with Royal Insurance marine department in 1967, moving to the aviation department in 1971. He then joined Aviation and General in 1985, which merged with most other UK composite insurer aviation departments to form British Aviation Insurance Group (now Global Aerospace) in 1991. Rod joined Amlin in 1997, as the Divisional Underwriter for the Aviation Division. Rod is a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute, Associate Member of the Royal Aeronautical Society and a member of the Lloyd’s Market Association Aviation Committee.

Experience
Amlin: 11 years
Market: 41 years

Phil Ellis
Group Actuary

Phil graduated in Mathematics from Cambridge University and trained as an actuary with Bacon & Woodrow, while working in the pensions and general insurance sections. In 1990 he was appointed Partner in Hazell Carr Training, the leading training firm for UK actuaries, where he specialised in writing and teaching general insurance, pensions, investment, statistics and general actuarial principles. In 1995 he joined actuaries English Matthews Brockman as a consultant to various general insurance clients. Phil joined Amlin as Group Actuary in 1999, where he manages both the central team and actuaries working within the underwriting divisions. Amlin were the inaugural winners of the Insurance Day In-house Actuarial Team of the year in 2006.

Experience
Amlin: 10 years Industry: 22 years

Mark Farrow
Human Resources Director

Mark joined Amlin in 2001, having previously served as HR Director with AXA PPP Healthcare. There he worked on major re-structuring programmes to prepare the PPP Healthcare business for sale and subsequently managed two integration programmes following the acquisitions by Guardian Royal Exchange (1998) and AXA (1999). Prior to AXA PPP Healthcare he worked in a variety of senior HR and Personnel roles with ICI and Kimberly- Clark. Mark is a Chartered Member of the Institute of Personne & Development.

Experience
Amlin: 12 years Industry: 20 years

David Harris
Managing Director, Amlin Underwriting Limited

David graduated in law and joined Royal Insurance in 1985 where he became the Multinational Claims Manager with worldwide accountabilities. Following the merger between Royal and Sun Alliance, he became the Operations Manager for the London Market Division of RSA, managing Human Resources, Information Technology, Marketing and Divisional Expenses. He joined AXA Insurance in 2000 and became their UK Claims Director and moved to Amlin in 2003 as Operations Director. He was promoted to Chief Operating Officer in 2007 and to his current role in November 2008. David plays an active role in London market reform, serving on various LMA and Lloyd’s committees and worked on a six-month secondment to Lloyd’s to help drive the market reform process.

Experience
Amlin: 6 years
Insurance: 25 years

James Illingworth
Chief Risk Officer

James spent eight years as a reinsurance broker with Greig Fester (which became part of Benfield) before joining Stace Barr Underwriting Agencies, and two years later becoming Managing Director of the new advisory company, Stace Barr Insurance Capital. He became a Director of Angerstein Underwriting Trust plc in 1997 and, following its merger with the Murray Lawrence Group, was elected Chairman of Amlin Underwriting from July 1999 to April 2000. James is a member of the LMA Risk Management Committee and was elected to Lloyd’s Underwriting Agents Association in July 2000.

Experience
Amlin: 18 years
Insurance: 26 years

Stuart Laird
Claims Manager, Amlin UK

Stuart’s career in insurance claims began in 1971 when he joined United Standard/Vigilant, a Provident Life Group company. In 1976, he joined Summit Motor Policies and has since worked for J H Minet, BVC and Amlin predecessor, Murray Lawrence. Stuart was appointed Assistant Claims Manager in 1980 and promoted to Claims Manager in 1992. Stuart is a member and past Chairman of the Lloyd’s Market Association Claims Committee, represents Lloyd’s on the ABI High Level Group, the ABI/AUI Rehabilitation Working Party and several other market working parties.

Experience
Amlin: 32 years Industry: 37 years

Stuart MacKellar
Managing Director, Amlin Bermuda

Stuart trained as a chartered accountant with BDO Stoy Hayward in London before moving to Bermuda in 1995 as a senior auditor in the insurance practice of KPMG Peat Marwick. He joined Alea in 1999 and, from 2004 onwards, he was Chief Financial Officer and Head of the Bermuda operations of Alea (Bermuda) Ltd and Alea Group Holdings (Bermuda) Ltd. Stuart was appointed to his current position in 2006, where he is responsible for all non-underwriting activities for Amlin Bermuda.

Experience
Amlin: 3 years
Insurance: 14 years

Fran¸ois Martinache
Chairman, Anglo French Underwriters

Fran¸ois began his insurance career in 1981 at CECAR, a subsidiary of insurance broker Marsh. In 1983 he moved to Stewart Wrightson as a Director, before joining Anglo French Underwriters in 1987 as senior Director. In 1990, Fran¸ois Martinache was appointed Chairman of AFU.

Experience
Amlin: First year Insurance: 28 years

Steve McMurray
Finance Director, Amlin Underwriting Limited

Steve is a Cambridge graduate and Chartered Accountant. In 1995 he began his career with PricewaterhouseCoopers, becoming senior manager specialising in the banking and capital markets sector. In 2003 he moved to the Bank of England as Chief Financial Accountant before joining Amlin as Head of Finance in 2007. Steve was promoted to his current role in November 2008.

Experience
Amlin: 2 years Industry: 13 years

Elizabeth Murphy
Chief Financial Officer, Amlin Bermuda

Elizabeth qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Coopers & Lybrand in London and moved to work for them in Bermuda. She continued her career with ACE Tempest Reinsurance Ltd as Chief Financial Officer from 1993 to 2000 and as Treasurer of ACE Limited for the next two years. From April 2002 to March 2006 she worked for Scottish Re Group Limited, as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President. A Bermuda resident, Elizabeth Murphy was most recently a non-executive director of Kiln Limited (until May 2007), Chair of the Compensation committee and Member of the Audit committee. She was appointed to her current role in January 2009.

Experience
Amlin: First year Industry: 29 years

Jayne Styles
Chief Investment Officer

Jayne was previously Head of International Equities at Halifax Fund Management Limited, where she established and ran a wide range of portfolios. For two years prior to joining Amlin, Jayne worked as an independent management consultant advising a number of blue chip companies, whilst completing an Executive MBA at Cranfield University School of Management. Jayne is a Member of the UK Society of Investment Professionals, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers, an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Management.

Experience
Amlin: 7 years Investments: 24 years

David Turner
Claims Manager, Amlin London

David began his career at broker Willis, joining Amlin in 1988 as a claims adjuster on the reinsurance portfolio. In 1995 he became Deputy Claims Manager for Harvey Bowring and in 2000, he became Amlin Group Claims Manager.

David has had wide exposure to all Syndicate 2001 business lines and has been involved in the year end reserving process since 1990. David was appointed Amlin London Claims Manager in June 2008 and, in addition to leading our response to major claim events and liaising with the underwriting and legal teams, he is active in Lloyd’s market claims and process initiatives.

David is a member of the Lloyds Market Association Claims Committee and sits on the Claims Service Review Board.

Experience
Amlin: 21 years Industry: 26 years

Andrew Wright
Deputy Head of Marine

Andrew began his career working for the Lloyd’s Corporation in 1987 before joining a specialist Bloodstock broker, Hall Ropner, in 1988. He joined Amlin in 1989 working on both the Bloodstock and Marine Energy accounts as an underwriting assistant. Andrew became assistant underwriter on both classes in 1993 before assuming the role of class underwriter in 1998, again in both classes. In 2003 Andrew relinquished the bloodstock role to focus solely on the Marine energy account.

Experience
Amlin: 20 years Lloyd’s: 21 years

Rob Wyatt
Underwriting Director, Amlin Bermuda

Rob has worked in the Lloyd’s market since 1982. He began his career at Guy Carpenter as a North American Treaty Broker and was seconded to the Fireman’s Fund in San Francisco in 1987/8. His underwriting career began in 1989 when he joined the Hardy Syndicate, moving to Harvey Bowring & Others Syndicate 362 in 1992.

In 1996 he moved to Bermuda, with Terra Nova, as Senior Vice President of Underwriting before returning to Harvey Bowring and Amlin in 2000 as an international catastrophe underwriter. In 2001 Rob was appointed the leading class underwriter for Amlin’s direct and facultative property account. He transferred to Amlin Bermuda in April 2008 and was appointed Underwriting Director in August 2008.

Experience
Amlin: 12 years
Insurance: 27 years