Corporate

Charles Philipps
Chief Executive

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 2007, was a Vice Chairman of the Lloyd’s Market Association from 2004 to 2007 and President of The Insurance Institute of London 2008 to 2009, having served on its Council since 2004. He was 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).

Richard Hextall
Finance Director

Chartered Accountant. He has been a director of the Lloyd’s Market Association since 2007 and was a member of its Finance Committee from 2002 to 2009 (Chairman from 2005 to 2007). He was also a member of the Lloyd’s Investment Committee from 2003 to 2007. He has been an independent non-executive director of The City of London Investment Trust plc since 2007. He joined Amlin from Deloitte & Touche, where he was a director specialising in the insurance and financial services sector.

James Illingworth
Group Chief Risk Officer

James spent eight years as a reinsurance broker with Greig Fester Ltd 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 Chairman of Amlin Underwriting Ltd from July 1999 to April 2000. James was elected to Lloyd’s Underwriting Agents Association in July 2000 and was Chairman of the LMA Risk Management Committee in 2009.

Simon Beale
Underwriting Director, Amlin London

Appointed a Director in May 2011. Simon has been Underwriting Director of Amlin London since June 2008. His background is as a specialist Marine Hull Underwriter since joining Lloyd’s in 1984 and he is a recognised international leader in this field. He joined Amlin in 1994 as Marine Hull Leading Class Underwriter and headed Amlin’s Marine business from 2001 to 2009. Simon is a previous chairman of both London’s Joint Hull Committee and the Ocean Hull Committee of the International Union of Marine Insurance. He has also represented the London market on IUMI’s Executive Committee and been an elected member of Lloyd’s Market Association Marine Committee. He is currently a co-opted member of the LMA Underwriting Committee.

Brian Carpenter
Underwriting Director, Amlin UK 

Appointed a Director in 2000. Brian heads Amlin UK, which underwrites the Group’s UK motor, property and liability business. He has been a member of the Lloyd’s Market Association’s Motor Committee since 1989 and has also served on the Lloyd’s Market Board and the Business Development Unit Board at Lloyd’s. 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.

David Harris
International Development Director, Amlin plc

David was appointed as International Development Director in June 2011 and is a member of the Group Executive. He is currently also acting as Interim Executive Vice President Marine for Amlin Corporate Insurance. From 2008 he was Managing Director of Amlin Underwriting Ltd. He joined Amlin in 2003 as Operations Director, promoted to Chief Operations Officer in 2007. David has held various senior positions in AXA, RSA and Royal Insurance.  He is a law graduate and a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute. He is currently a Non Executive Director of the Lloyd’s Market Association. David has played an active part in London Market Reform and International Development serving on various market bodies and committees. He was previously Chairman of the CII Examiners Committee and a former Non Executive Director of Thatcham.

Andreas Luberichs
Group Head of Underwriting, Amlin plc

Andreas was appointed in March 2011 as Group Head of Underwriting and member of the Group Executive Management team of Amlin plc.
Since graduating with an insurance business school degree, he spent seventeen of the past twenty years with Chubb Europe. Prior to that he worked in both a German domestic brokerage and a composite insurance group. Initially trained as a commercial property underwriter, he developed broad experience across a variety of business classes, managing both business and staff development, integration and restructuring across all European locations. In 2000, Luberichs was appointed at Chubb Europe Vice President and from 2001 onwards, held various senior positions across the business.

Andrew Grant
Group Operations Officer

Andrew graduated in Monetary Economics from LSE in 1990 and joined Accenture, where he worked with clients in insurance and retail banking, focusing on operational effectiveness and platform improvement. In 1997 Andrew joined UBS where he helped lead the global integration of UBS and SBC, managed the Euro transition and subsequent business transformation of its global foreign exchange and short term rates business, and the development of its Wealth Management proposition and operations. From 2005-2007, he was a business unit Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer. Prior to joining Amlin in June 2009, Andrew worked for RBS, where he developed and implemented the separation and integration strategy for the RBS share of ABN AMRO.

Mark Farrow
Group 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 Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development.

Kim Hvirgel

Appointed Chief Executive Officer of ACI on 1 June 2011. Kim, a Danish national aged 51, was previously the CEO of Codan Forsikring Ltd, Royal & Sun Alliance’s Danish subsidiary, where he had worked since 2001. His previous roles at Codan included Head of Commercial Underwriting for Denmark and the Nordic Divisional Director for commercial lines. From 1993 - 2001, he worked for Tryg for eight years, latterly as Assistant General Manager and prior to that, for the Danish Insurance Association.

François Martinache
Chairman, Amlin France

François 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, François was appointed Chairman of Anglo French Underwriters, which was renamed Amlin France in May 2010.

Philippe Regazzoni
Chief Executive Officer, Amlin AG

Philippe joined Amlin in 2010 as CEO of Amlin AG and Amlin Re Europe, the newly created Zurich based reinsurance business. Philippe previously spent 12 years at Swiss Re, firstly working in various roles in strategy, planning and financial control before taking a number of underwriting and management roles in Switzerland and the UK. Before joining Amlin, Philippe was responsible for the UK / Ireland P&C Market Unit of Swiss Re and was CEO of Swiss Re UK.

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.

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 and an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators.

 Current member of Group Executive Committee
 Current member of Group Management Committee