1 ROGER TAYLOR, CHAIRMAN
Aged 63. Chairman of the Nomination Committee. Appointed a non-executive Director and Chairman in 1998. He was a member of the Remuneration Committee until 31 December 2003. He is nonexecutive Deputy Chairman of Helphire Group plc, non-executive President of Yura International Holding B.V. and a non-executive director of White Ensign Association Limited. He was formerly Chief Executive of Sun Alliance Group plc and, until 1998, Deputy Chairman of Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Group plc. He was Chairman of the Association of British Insurers from 1997 to 1998.
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2 CHARLES PHILIPPS, CHIEF EXECUTIVE
Aged 46. Appointed Group Chief Executive in 1999, having joined the Board as Group Finance Director in 1997. Chartered Accountant. He has represented Amlin Corporate Member Limited on the Council of Lloyd's since its election with effect from February 2001. He was a member of the Lloyd's Market Board for 2001 and 2002. He has been a director of the Lloyd’s Market Association since 2003 and a Vice Chairman since January 2004. He was also Chairman of its Capital Committee for 2002 and 2003. He was elected to the Council of The Insurance Institute of London in 2004. He was previously a director of NatWest Markets Corporate Finance Limited until 1997, having been employed there from 1983. Whilst at NatWest Markets he was responsible for the formation and flotation of Angerstein Underwriting Trust PLC (which became Amlin plc) on the London Stock Exchange.
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3 RAMANAM MYLVAGANAM, INDEPENDENT NON-EXECUTIVE
Aged 55. Chairman of the Remuneration Committee since May 2004. Appointed a Director in 1998, having previously served as an independent non-executive director of Amlin Underwriting Limited, of which he remains a nonexecutive director. He is principal partner of CMS Ltd, a management consultancy firm specialising in marketing and strategic business planning and development, and a director of ProZone Holdings Limited and Sports Info Services Limited.
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4 TOM KEMP, NON-EXECUTIVE (NON-INDEPENDENT SINCE JANUARY 2004)
Aged 64. Appointed a Director in 1998. Member of the Remuneration Committee until January 2004. He was a director of White Mountains Insurance Group Ltd from 1994 until March 2004. He served that group as President from 2001 to 2003, Deputy Chairman from 2000 to 2001, and President and Chief Executive Officer from 1997 to 2000, having joined in 1990. He is a nonexecutive director of Montpelier Re Holdings Ltd and was seconded to that company by White Mountains as its Chief Financial Officer from July 2002 to September 2004. Amlin’s Syndicate 2001 has had qualifying quota share arrangements and currently has material reinsurance contracts with Montpelier Re. He is a former President and Chief Executive Officer of Resolute Reinsurance Company and former Vice President for Corporate Finance and Development at GEICO Corporation. He is a US citizen.
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5 ROGER JOSLIN, INDEPENDENT NON-EXECUTIVE
Aged 68. Appointed a Director in 2001. He has been a non-executive director of Archer Daniels Midland Company since 2001. Until he retired in December 2002 he was Vice Chairman of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company and a director of State Farm Fire and Casualty Company and State Farm Life Insurance Company, serving on the executive and investment committees of these three principal companies in the State Farm Insurance Group. He is a US citizen.
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6 BRIAN CARPENTER, UNDERWRITER
Aged 54. Appointed a Director in 1998, having previously served as an independent non-executive director of Amlin Underwriting Limited. He is principal partner of CMS Ltd, a management consultancy firm specialising in marketing and strategic business planning and development, and a director of ProZone Holdings Limited and Sports Info Services Limited.
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7 TONY HOLT, UNDERWRITING DIRECTOR
Aged 53. Appointed a Director in 2000. He has been Director of Underwriting of Syndicate 2001 since 1999. He was appointed head of Syndicate 2001's non-marine division in 2000. He joined the Group in 1980 and was active underwriter of marine Syndicate 40 (now part of Syndicate 2001) from 1995 to 2000. He has been a member of the Advisory Committee to the Franchise Board of Lloyd’s since 2003, having previously served on the Committee of the Lloyd’s Underwriting Association and its Joint XL Committee.
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8 LORD STEWARTBY, DEPUTY CHAIRMAN AND SENIOR INDEPENDENT NON-EXECUTIVE
Aged 69. Chairman of the Remuneration Committee. He has been a Director of Amlin since 1993, having served as non-executive Chairman from 1996 to 1998 until its merger with ML (Bermuda) Limited, the latter being the part of the Group from which the major part of the present business originates. He is a non-executive director of the Nuclear Generation Decommissioning Fund Limited and was formerly senior partner of City solicitors, Allen & Overy and, until 2000, Chairman of The Law Debenture Corporation p.l.c.. He is a former director of the Financial Services Authority and a past Chairman of the Lloyd’s Market Association.
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9 NIGEL BUCHANAN, INDEPENDENT NON-EXECUTIVE
Aged 61. Appointed a Director in March 2004. Chartered Accountant. He is a non-executive director of Butterfield Bank (UK) Ltd and a trustee of the Outward Bound Trust. He retired as a senior client partner of PriceWaterhouseCoopers in 2001, where he specialised in financial services clients. He joined a predecessor firm in 1968 and was appointed a partner in 1978. He was a member of the Ethics Standards Board of the Accounting Foundation until it was superseded in 2002.
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10 RICHARD HEXTALL, FINANCE DIRECTOR
Aged 36. Appointed Group Finance Director in 1999 on joining from Deloitte & Touche, where he was a director specialising in the insurance and financial services sector. Chartered Accountant. He has been Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Lloyd's Market Association since January 2005, having been a member since 2002. He has been a member of the Lloyd's Investment Committee since 2003.
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