1 ROGER TAYLOR,
CHAIRMAN
Aged 62. 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 non-executive President of Yura International Holding B.V., non-executive Deputy Chairman of Helphire Group plc and a nonexecutive 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 45. Appointed Group Chief Executive in July 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 June 2003 and Chairman of its Capital Committee since 2002. He was previously a director of NatWest Markets Corporate Finance Limited until 1997, having been employed there from 1983.
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3 RICHARD HEXTALL,
FINANCE DIRECTOR
Aged 35. Appointed Group Finance Director in November 1999 on joining from Deloitte & Touche, where he was a director specialising in the insurance and financial services sector. Chartered Accountant. He has been a member of the Finance Committee of the Lloyd’s Market Association since 2002 and of the Lloyd’s Investment Committee from 2003.
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4 TONY HOLT,
UNDERWRITING DIRECTOR
Aged 52. Appointed a Director in January 2000. He has been a director of underwriting of Syndicate 2001 since 1999. In 2000, he was appointed head of Syndicate 2001’s Reinsurance & non-marine division. He joined the Group in 1980 and was active underwriter of marine Syndicate 40 (now part of Syndicate 2001) from 1995 to 2000.
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5 ROGER JOSLIN,
NON-EXECUTIVE
Aged 67. Appointed a Director in September 2001. Appointed to the Audit Committee from 1 January 2004. 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 RAMANAM MYLVAGANAM,
NON-EXECUTIVE
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 BRIAN CARPENTER,
UNDERWRITER
Aged 46. Appointed a Director in January 2000. He is head of the UK Commercial division of Syndicate 2001. He was a member of the Lloyd’s Market Board from 2000 to 2002. He is Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Lloyd’s Motor Underwriters Association and of the Lloyd’s Training and Advisory Group. He was a member of the Business Development Unit Board at Lloyd’s from 1997 to 2000. Prior to joining the Group in 1989, he worked as a broker with Sedgwick and Marsh.
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8 JOHN KENNEDY,
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 LORD STEWARTBY,
DEPUTY CHAIRMAN AND DESIGNATED SENIOR INDEPENDENT NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Aged 68. Chairman of the Audit Committee. Appointed a non-executive Director and Deputy Chairman in October 1995. He has non-executive appointments as Chairman of the Throgmorton Trust PLC, Deputy Chairman of Standard Chartered PLC and a director of Diploma plc and companies in the Framlington group. He was an Amlin nominated alternate director of Stace Barr Angerstein PLC from July 2001 to May 2003, having previously been an Amlin nominated director. He was formerly non-executive Deputy Chairman of the Portman Building Society and a director of the Financial Services Authority. He also formerly spent more than 20 years in merchant banking and held a number of Government offices, including Economic Secretary to the Treasury.
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10 JOHN STACE,
VICE CHAIRMAN
Aged 55. Appointed Vice Chairman in September 1999, having joined the Board in 1997. He moved from a full time to a part time executive basis in November 2001 and retired from executive office on 31 December 2003, continuing as non-executive Vice Chairman until the 2004 Annual General Meeting when he will leave the Board. He was Chief Executive of Amlin from 1997 to 1998 and Deputy Chief Executive from 1998 to 1999. He was a member of the Lloyd’s Regulatory Board and of the Lloyd’s Business Conduct Committee from 2000 to 2002 and was Chairman of the Lloyd’s Members’ Services Unit (MSU) from 2001 to 2002. He has been Chairman of the Lloyd’s Charities Trust since 2001. He is an Amlinnominated non-executive director of Stace Barr Angerstein PLC and was formerly a founder and chairman of Stace Barr Limited, a Lloyd’s members’ agency. He is a non-executive director of Frontiers Group Limited and a trustee of The Tank Museum at Bovington. He has also previously served on the Council of Lloyd’s, including as a Deputy Chairman. He is a New Zealand citizen.
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11 JOHN SANDERS,
NON-EXECUTIVE
Aged 61. A Director of Amlin since 1993, including prior to its merger in 1998 with ML (Bermuda) Limited, the latter being the part of the Group from which the major part of the present business originates. He is non-executive Deputy Chairman of Austin Reed Group PLC, non-executive Chairman of Star Energy (Kakap) Limited, and a non-executive director of BoE International Holdings Limited. He is a Barclay Fellow of Templeton College, Oxford. He was a managing director of NatWest Markets until 1998 and is a former Chairman of Orion Royal Bank and of Royal Bank of Canada Europe.
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12 THOMAS KEMP,
NON-EXECUTIVE
Aged 63. Appointed a Director in 1998. Member of the Remuneration Committee until January 2004. He has been a director of White Mountains Insurance Group Ltd, which is in the same group as One Beacon Insurance Company (a disclosable shareholder of over 3% of the Company’s shares until February 2003), since 1994. He served that group as President from 2001 to June 2003, Deputy Chairman from 2000 to 2001, and President and Chief Executive Officer from 1997 to 2000, having joined the group in 1990. Since July 2002, he has been seconded in an executive capacity as a director of Montpelier Re Holdings Limited with which Syndicate 2001 has had qualifying quota share arrangements and currently has material reinsurance contracts. 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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