The Board
1 Roger Taylor, Chairman
Aged 66. Chairman of the Nomination Committee. Appointed a non-executive Director and Chairman in 1998. He is non-executive Deputy Chairman of Helphire Group plc, non-executive President of Yura International Holding B.V. and of Yam Invest N.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 the Chairman of the Association of British Insurers from 1997 to 1998.
2 Charles Philipps, Chief Executive
Aged 49. Appointed Group Chief Executive in 1999, having joined the Board as Group Finance Director in 1997. Chartered Accountant. He represented Amlin Corporate Member Limited on the Council of Lloyd’s from 2001 to January 2007. He was a director of the Lloyd’s Market Association from 2003 and a Vice Chairman from 2004, in each case until May 2007. He is Deputy President of The Insurance Institute of London since September 2007, having served on its Council since 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 on the London Stock Exchange of Angerstein Underwriting Trust PLC (which became Amlin plc).
3 Nigel Buchanan, Independent Non-Executive
Aged 64. Appointed a Director in 2004. Chartered Accountant. Chairman of the Audit Committee since 2005 and senior independent director since 2006. 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 He was a member of the Ethics Standards Board of the Accounting Foundation until it was superseded in 2002.
4 Brian Carpenter, Underwriter
Aged 50. Appointed a Director in 2000. He is head of the Amlin Insurance Services division of Syndicate 2001, which comprises the Group’s UK motor, property and liability businesses. He has been a member of the Lloyd’s Market Association’s Motor Committee since 1989 and was a member of the Lloyd’s Market Board from 2000 to 2002 and of the Business Development Unit Board at Lloyd’s from 1997 to 2000. Prior to joining the Group in 1989 as active underwriter of motor Syndicate 887 (now part of Syndicate 2001) he worked as a broker with Sedgwick and Marsh.
5 Richard Davey, Independent Non-Executive
Aged 59. Appointed a Director in 2005. He is a non-executive Vice Chairman of the Yorkshire Building Society, senior independent non-executive director of Severn Trent Plc and, since May 2007, Chairman of London Capital Group Holdings PLC. He is a former non-executive director of Freeserve plc (until 2001) and of Scottish Widows Life Assurance Society (until 2000). The majority of his executive career was spent in investment banking at N M Rothschild & Sons Limited, where he served in various roles, including Head of Investment Banking and Chairman of its Executive Committee, until his retirement in 1999. A financial services sector specialist, he advised Lloyd’s of London, and then Equitas, on the Reconstruction and Renewal proposals of the early 1990s.
6 Marty Feinstein, Independent Non-Executive
Aged 59. Appointed a Director in December 2007. He is a non-executive Director of Reynolds American Inc and GeoVera Insurance Ltd. He was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Farmers Group Inc from 1997 to 2005, when he retired after 35 years' service with that group. By 2005, Farmers was the third largest property and casualty insurance group in the US. Whilst Farmers was owned by BAT and then by Allied Zurich, between 1997 and 2000 he served in turn as a director B.A.T. Industries p.l.c. and of Allied Zurich p.l.c.. He is a US citizen.
7 Richard Hextall, Finance Director
Aged 39. Appointed Group Finance Director in 1999. Chartered Accountant. He has been a director of the Lloyd’s Market Association since May 2007 and a member of its Finance Committee since 2002, serving as Chairman of the committee from 2005 to December 2007. He was a member of the Lloyd’s Investment Committee from 2003 to May 2007. He has been an independent non-executive director of The City of London Investment Trust PLC since November 2007. He joined Amlin from Deloitte & Touche, where he was a director specialising in the insurance and financial services sector.
8 Tony Holt, Underwriting Director
Aged 56. Appointed a Director in 2000. He has been Director of Underwriting 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 was a member of the Underwriting Advisory Committee to the Franchise Board of Lloyd’s from 2003 to 2006, having previously served on the Committee of the Lloyd’s Underwriting Association and its Joint XL Committee.
9 Roger Joslin, Independent Non-Executive
Aged 71. Appointed a Director in 2001. He is retiring from the Board at the Annual General Meeting in April 2008. He was a non-executive director of Archer Daniels Midland Company from 2001 to November 2007. Until he retired in 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.
10 Ramanam Mylvaganam, Independent Non-Executive
Aged 58. Appointed a Director in 1998, and first elected by shareholders in July 1999, having previously served as an independent non-executive director of Amlin Underwriting Limited. Chairman of the Remuneration Committee since 2004. He is principal partner of CMS Ltd, a management consultancy firm specialising in marketing and strategic advice, and a non-executive director of Dobson Lyle Limited, Bern Aqua bv and Apollo Medical Information Systems Limited.
11 Sir Mark Wrightson Bt, Independent Non-Executive
Aged 57. Appointed a Director in 2006. He retired as Co-Chairman of Close Brothers Corporate Finance Limited, a subsidiary of Close Brothers Group plc, in 2006. He was formerly Chairman of the London Investment Banking Association Corporate Finance Committee and a member of the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers. He is a nonexecutive director of Domino Printing Sciences plc and of Tees Valley Regeneration Limited and was a non-executive director of British Vita plc from 2004 until its sale in 2005.