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Neville has spent over 20 years in financial services including life insurance general insurance and wealth management. In that time he worked at Lloyds, St James’s Place, AEGON and RSA including roles as General Counsel and Chief Risk Officer

Neville has spent over 20 years working in insurance, previously at Lloyds, St James’s Place and AEGON before moving to RSA in 2005.

Before qualifying as a lawyer, Neville spent 10 years in the Army, finishing as a Captain in the Royal Engineers.  He is a keen sailor with 3 children and lives on the Suffolk coast, where he can indulge his passion for being on the water.

Julian Enoizi is the CEO of Pool Re, the Government backed UK terrorism reinsurance mutual. He joined Pool Re in September 2013, with the mandate to bring a fresh perspective to an company that had changed little since its formation in 1993. Since then he has presided over the re-positioning of the organisation and a series of significant advancements. These include the renegotiation of Pool Re’s relationship with HM Treasury, introduction of a more sophisticated underwriting proposition and the purchase of third party retrocession cover. In addition, Pool Re is becoming a central sponsor of thought leadership initiatives and international collaboration with similar national level terrorism (re)insurance arrangements.

Julian has occupied executive roles in the insurance industry for the past 17 years, eleven of which have been as CEO. His experience spans the Lloyd’s and London, UK Regional and Continental European markets, and has been focused on businesses undergoing important strategic transitions, often under challenging circumstances. Julian believes in a fast-paced, results-oriented and collaborative approach, encouraging his team to share his vision and commitment to success.

Julian is a qualified lawyer and practiced in London, Milan and Brussels before embarking on his insurance career. He joined Chubb Insurance Company of Europe in 1995 and AIG Europe in 2000, before moving to CNA in 2002 as President of its Continental European Division based in Paris. He was made President and CEO of CNA Europe in 2005. In 2009 Julian became President and CEO of Argo International and most recently was CEO of ProSight at Lloyd’s between 2011 and 2013.

Julian sits on the Advisory Board of the OECD International Network on the Financial Management of Large-scale Catastrophes, and the Steering Group of the Cass Business School Global Future Worlds Project. He was Chairman of the City Forum (2010/11 Season) and Chairman of the Princes Trust Insurance Leadership Group from 2008 to 2011. In 2010 he was awarded Freedom of the City of London and became a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Insurers. He is active on the international speaking circuit, participating at industry conferences.

Julian was born in 1967 and grew up in Surrey. He is a graduate of the Universities of Birmingham and Limoges, France, holding an LLB (Hons) degree in Law and French Law and a Diplome D’Etudes Juridiques Francaises. He is fluent in French and Italian, and also speaks Spanish. An avid golfer, Julian is a member of the Royal Automobile Club as well as the Lloyd’s Golf Club. He is also an Associate Member of Glyndebourne.

Shirine Khoury-Haq joined Lloyd’s in July 2014 as Chief Operating Officer, with responsibility for global operations, information technology, property services, and data management. Shirine is also the sponsor of the London Market Target Operating Model (TOM) Programme, on behalf of the London Market Group.

Shirine joined Lloyd’s from Catlin, where she was Group Head of Operations and UK Chief Operating Officer, and prior to this, Shirine was an Associate Partner at IBM, specialising in large systems and business transformation projects as well as post merger/acquisition integration. She also had responsibility for Finance and Operations for several regions while employed at McDonald’s Corporation.

Shirine holds an MBA from Ohio State University and is a US Certified Public Accountant.

Emma advises insurance clients on all commercial and contractual issues.

In addition to her general expertise as a commercial lawyer for the insurance sector, she specialises in consumer law, data protection and advertising and marketing.

Emma has spent over 12 months on secondment at various insurance businesses, covering both general and life business and domestic and international. She was most recently working as the senior legal adviser for an international insurance business.

Emma lectures frequently on topics such as Data Protection, Unfair Contract Terms law, and general principles of contract law.

Carl Blake is Head of Legal at Bupa Global, the division of Bupa that provides international health insurance, travel insurance and medical assistance worldwide to individuals, small businesses and global corporate customers. Carl has a corporate and commercial background, having trained and been a senior associate at Clifford Chance in the Corporate and Private Equity teams, before then becoming General Counsel, Central and Eastern Europe and the Middle East at RSA Insurance Group, one of the world’s longest standing general insurers. Carl’s non-negotiable is to leave at a “reasonable hour” on a Friday, and he has a passion for collecting retro videogames.

Dan started his legal career at CMS Cameron McKenna in 2000 in the Insurance & Reinsurance practice group.  He handled a wide-range of insurance and reinsurance disputes, and acted for insurers as well as brokers.

In 2008 Dan joined Aon.  Dan has headed up the litigation team since 2013, and advises on contentious aspects of Aon’s role as an insurance and reinsurance broker.

Frances heads the non-contentious legal team at Towergate Insurance, Europe’s largest independent broker.  Prior to joining Towergate, she was responsible for advising Tesco’s Group Food division, covering the UK, Ireland and Central Europe.

Before going in house, Frances was a corporate and M&A specialist at Clifford Chance and Latham & Watkins in London, Dubai and Abu Dhabi, including a secondment acting as sole legal counsel for Mondelez International’s Middle East and North Africa business.

John joined Travelers in 2012, and heads a team of in-house lawyers as well as a compliance department. He also acts as Company Secretary.

John’s legal career in London began at Barlow Lyde & Gilbert, where he qualified as a solicitor in the firm’s aerospace insurance department.  He eventually moved to the London office of the US law firm LeBoeuf, Lamb Greene & MacRae (latterly known as Dewey & LeBoeuf) where he specialised in aviation claims, as well as large scale international insurance and reinsurance dispute resolution.

In 2002, John moved in-house to AIG as Regional Counsel for Central Europe and CIS, and in 2010 was appointed Deputy General Counsel for the Greater Europe region.

John studied English literature at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and law at the London School of Economics.

Brendan has been the Senior Legal Counsel for the UK Branch of Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE for 8 years and previously worked in private practice in London with RPC and BLM dealing with insurance litigation. His current role involves responsibility for all UK matters as well as Nordic, Holland and Dubai branches. He was involved in the IUA working party consulting with the Law Commission for the Insurance Act and is currently working with underwriters in discussions with brokers and clients about the implementation of the new law and its practical impact.

Nicholas Berry is a Senior Associate in Norton Rose Fulbright’s corporate and regulatory insurance team in London.

He specialises in advising on corporate and regulatory issues in the global insurance sector.

His experience includes mergers and acquisitions, private equity, insurance linked securities, capital raising, restructurings, portfolio transfers and joint ventures, including in the Lloyd’s and life insurance sectors.

Nicholas is a regular contributor to publications, including on topics such as the disruptive effect of FinTech on the insurance market and the UK government’s proposals to make London a global ILS centre.

He acts for clients such as: Prudential plc, AXA, QBE, Friends Life, HSBC, Aquiline Capital Partners, XL Catlin and AIG.

Kirsty Cooper heads the Office of the Chairman at Aviva and is the Group General Counsel, Company Secretary and a member of the Executive Committee. Kirsty leads the Legal and Secretarial function for Aviva globally and is also responsible for running the Office of Chairman, ensuring that the post-holder has all the support and assistance required.

Since her appointment as General Counsel and Company Secretary Kirsty has created Aviva’s first global legal leadership team and commenced a series of initiatives to ensure that Aviva has a strong and effective global legal function.

Kirsty graduated in Law from the University of Glasgow in 1987.

Hilary has been a Partner in Clifford Chance’s Corporate practice since 1997, specialising in non-contentious insurance matters. Hilary has experience of all aspects of corporate and commercial work, including mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures, focusing on financial institutions, including life and non-life insurers, reinsurers and reinsurance intermediaries.  In addition to transactional work Hilary has considerable experience in advising on regulatory and governance related matters.

Mike’s career began in 1988. He is accomplished in underwriting and broking principles and practice having gained extensive experience from roles within a large composite insurer and both Lloyd’s and independent insurance brokers. Mike has worked in specialist areas with niche market experience gained in the entertainment, leisure, film and event sectors. Mike joined BIBA in January 2013 as Technical Services Manager and was promoted to his present position of Head of Technical Services in May 2014. His role involves overseeing BIBA’s schemes and facilities, working with BIBA committees on Property, Liability, Motor and Trade Credit, publication of technical bulletins, responding to Government consultations and member queries and working with other stakeholders including Law Commission, DEFRA, ABI on matters of interest to the insurance industry.

Richard is widely regarded as one of the world’s top IT lawyers”

With over thirty years’ experience at the leading edge of technology law practice, Richard is widely recognised as one of the world’s top IT lawyers.  He has built an outstanding reputation for advice that combines commerciality and client service with innovative legal solutions to the business challenges of technology development, deployment and regulation.

As a law firm leader, Richard has a track record of achievement and innovation.  He set up Kemp & Co in 1997 as a sole practitioner and led the practice:

• as Kemp Little LLP, to become the first UK law firm LLP in 2001
• as the only specialist firm to be ranked in the Financial Times’ prestigious ‘FT Law 50’ of innovative European law firms each year from 2006 to 2012
• into the top band of UK IT law firms in Chambers’ UK Directory in 2011.

This track record continues with Kemp IT Law’s nomination for ‘most innovative use of office environment’ in The Lawyer’s Business Leadership Awards 2015.

As an IT lawyer, Richard has won numerous industry awards for legal service over the past twenty years.  He has been top ranked individually for IT law in the UK legal directories since 1997 and in the ‘Expert Guide to the World’s Leading Lawyers – Best of the Best’ series since 2001.

Bruce Love is UK General Counsel at Ageas. In the UK Ageas is a leading provider of personal and commercial lines insurance, sold through brokers, affinity partnerships and directly under its own brands.

Prior to joining Ageas, Bruce worked at Legal & General, where he was Head of Legal for its insurance, savings and retirement businesses.

Bruce started his career in private practice at Allen & Overy and then Clyde & Co.

Simon Mitchley is Director of Governance & Company Secretariat at Prudential Insurance UK&E, where he is responsible for setting the direction for and leading first line governance and the Company Secretariat teams.  Simon has spent the last 15 years guiding boards through the evolution of corporate governance and regulation.  Before joining Prudential, Simon was Group Company Secretary of Royal London, where he transformed the Company Secretarial function and lead governance reviews in implementing more efficient decision-making in the business.  Prior to Royal London, Simon held Company Secretary positions in Resolution, dealing with major M&A transactions and business integration.

Charles is recognised as a leading corporate and regulatory adviser with over 20 years’ experience in the insurance industry.   His practice covers domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and corporate reorganisations as well as insurance business transfers under Part VII of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.  He is also the editor of “A Practitioner’s Guide to the Regulation of Insurance” (Sweet & Maxwell, 2014).  Charles became a partner in a predecessor firm of Hogan Lovells in 2001.

Robert Robinson is the Group General Counsel of Amlin plc where he has overall responsibility for all legal matters involving the Amlin group. Amlin plc is a FTSE 250 company based in London that participates in the global reinsurance and specialty insurance sectors. The group has offices in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Bermuda, Singapore and the US. Until 2011 Robert also was the Head of Legal & Compliance for Amlin Underwriting Ltd, the Amlin group’s Lloyd’s managing agent. He joined Amlin in 2007 from Liberty Syndicates where he served as the first Syndicate Counsel. He joined Liberty from the Chicago-based law firm Lord Bissell & Brook where he was an equity partner and partner in charge of their London office.

Robert has extensive experience as an advocate, having acted as lead trial counsel in numerous insurance and reinsurance litigation and arbitration proceedings both in the US and abroad. He also has acted in a wide variety of non-contentious matters including: M&A and corporate finance transactions; corporate governance; commercial contract negotiations; insurance licensing and regulatory matters; sanctions, anti-corruption and competition law advice; and insurance product development.

He has been involved in various London insurance market groups including the Lloyd’s Market Association (LMA). Robert was the founder of the LMA Binding Authority Claims Group and is also a past chairman of the LMA Counsel Forum. From time to time he acts as an arbitrator in reinsurance disputes.

Fergus is General Counsel & Company Secretary at Royal London, the UK’s largest mutual life insurance company. Fergus sits at the ExCo and his career has included holding senior roles in compliance and company secretariat in businesses across life and general insurance, asset management and broker dealing.

Jonathan Teacher is a Senior Legal Counsel in the Swiss Re Group Legal team. Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading reinsurance groups. Jonathan’s experience includes building out and embedding the legal function’s franchise with diverse parts of the business, managing legal risk and functional responsibilities through transformational environments, governance design and review, leading complex transactions, advising on regulatory matters and strategy, and providing advice on a wide variety of general legal issues encountered by the business and its management. Jonathan was previously in private practice at Norton Rose Fulbright advising on corporate, regulatory and capital markets/ILS matters primarily for the insurance industry, having begun his career in investment banking.

Gillian Tomlinson is the Chief Data Officer of RSA for the  UK and Western Europe. Reporting into the COO her primary remit is to optimise the companies data, MI, insights and analytics capabilities with a core focus on improving customer experience, growth and driving operational efficiency. Gillian goal is to support RSA in becoming an innovative data- driven organisation.

Gillian is a seasoned data and insight professional with over 15 years  of experience . She has fulfilled multiple data related roles globally across the finance services industry . Most notably Gillian was Vice President of Dun and Bradstreet for the EMEA region, Head of Change for Credit Risk Data at RBS, Head of Data Quality at Lloyds Commercial Bank and more recently Chief Data Officer of Whitbread.

In 2015 Gillian recieved an accolade by the Information Age as one of the UKs top 50 data leaders and she has been a key note speaker at several industry and global data related events.

Gillian is originally from South Africa and moved to England 7 years ago where she lives in Hertfordshire with her family.

Peter is Standard Life’s Head of Conduct and Compliance, reporting directly to the Chief Risk Officer.  He has overall responsibility for the Conduct, Compliance Assurance, Regulatory Advisory and Regulatory Environment teams based within the Risk function.  Prior to his current role, he was Standard Life’s Head of Legal Services, with responsibility for the teams providing legal advice and support to the Standard Life’s business areas.  Peter holds an MBA from Edinburgh University Business School and joined Standard Life in 2002, following a few years in private practice as a corporate lawyer, specialising in M&A and corporate finance work.

Colin Wallace is Partnership Director at Towergate Insurance Brokers, the largest independent broker in the UK.

Prior to joining Towergate, Colin worked at Bristol based broker Brightside Insurance, where he was Distribution Director.

Colin started his career at General Accident and has spent the majority of his time working in sales, distribution and account management roles.

Amanda Fetto has been legal counsel to Swiss Re’s Reinsurance EMEA division for six years and previously has held positions at a Lloyd’s managing agent and at an insurance broker.  Amanda has a particular interest in product and distribution innovation, the Insurance Act and technology solutions.

Joanne Howie is Deputy General Counsel (Global) and Head of UK Legal & Compliance for AXA Corporate Solutions. The role involves providing legal advice to all of AXA CS’s offices around the world, and covers a broad range of topics including regulatory, compliance, wordings, product development, claims and company secretarial. Jo is also on the UK Board. Before joining AXA in 2012, Joanne was a Senior Associate in the Insurance & Reinsurance team at Allens Arthur Robinson in Australia and trained and qualified at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London.

Prior to establishing Intelligent Real Estate Due Diligence Limited (IREDD), Robert spent over 28 years as a solicitor and partner in a number of major City legal firms where he specialised in real estate and real estate finance transactions. IREDD was established as an independent FCA regulated advisor to offer a disruptive, insurance backed approach to transacting interests in real estate. Robert chairs the British Property Federation, Insurance Working Committee, and is a member of the Investment Property Forum.

Cheryl Sweeney is a senior US/UK qualified lawyer with 25 years’ experience in the NY and London (re)insurance sector.  She has held senior management positions for international carriers and specialist acquisition / liability management firms in commercial / corporate legal, compliance, regulatory, product development, claims and technical audits. Prior to establishing her consulting practice in 2016, Cheryl headed up the Legal & Product Development department for CNA Hardy’s international operations for 10 years.