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the board hextall davey carpenter taylor philipps Bosse wrightson buchanan holt ramaman Feinstein

1 Roger Taylor, Chairman 

Chairman of the Nomination Committee. Appointed a non-executive Director and Chairman in 1998. He is 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 a non-executive director of Helphire Group plc from 2000 until November 2008. 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, Group 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 and was a Vice Chairman of the Lloyd’s Market Association from 2004 to 2007. 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).

3 Stine Bosse, Independent Non-Executive 

Appointed a Director in November 2008. She has been Group Chief Executive Officer of TrygVesta A/S, the largest general insurer in Denmark and second largest in the Nordic region, since 2001. She joined TrygVesta in 1987, serving in various roles prior to her appointment as CEO, including as head of both the underwriting and claims departments and as Human Resources Director, joining its Group Executive Management in 1999. She is a non-executive director of Nordea Bank, Grundfos Management A/S and the Poul Due Jensens Foundation and chairs the Supervisory Board of the Danish Insurance Association and the Danish Heart Child Disease Foundation (Hjertebarnsfonden). She is a Danish citizen

4 Nigel Buchanan, Independent Non-Executive 

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.

5 Brian Carpenter, Underwriter

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.

6 Richard Davey, Independent Non-Executive

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.

7 Marty Feinstein, Independent Non-Executive

Appointed a Director in December 2007. He is a non-executive Director of Reynolds American Inc and was appointed Chairman of its Audit and Finance Committee in May 2009.  He is also a non-executive Director of GeoVera Insurance Holdings, 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 BAT Industries plc and of Allied Zurich plc. He is a US citizen.

8 Richard Hextall, Group Finance Director

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.

9 Tony Holt, Non-Executive (Non-Independent)

Appointed a Director in 2000. He was Group Underwriting Director from 1999 until his retirement as an executive Director on 31 December 2008. He was re-appointed to the Board as a non-executive Director on 5 January 2009, when he was also re-appointed as a non-executive director of Amlin Underwriting Limited and Amlin Bermuda Ltd. He joined the Group in 1980 and was head of marine underwriting from 1995 to 2000 and of non-marine from 2000 to 2008. He was a member of the Underwriting Advisory Committee to the Franchise Board of Lloyd’s from 2003 to 2006.

 

10 Ramanam Mylvaganam, Non-Executive (Non-Independent) - 1 January to 13 May 2009

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 from 2004 to October 2008. 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.  Mr. Mylvaganam ceased to be a Director with effect from 13 May 2009.

11 Sir Mark Wrightson Bt, Independent Non-Executive 

Appointed a Director in 2006. Chairman of the Remuneration Committee since November 2008. 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.

 

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Current member of the Nomination Committee
Current member of the Remuneration Committee