| Full Name | Company | Job Title | Profile Picture | Speaker Bio | Speaking At |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adam Peckman | Aon | Head of Cyber Solutions – Asia Pacific |  | - | Presentation: Building cyber resilience |
| Andre Martin | SRCS | Head of Innovative Risk Solutions, APAC |  | Andre started his career as a commissioning engineer with ABB in Switzerland. After several years as a consultant with Accenture's Resource & Energy practice in Zurich Andre joined Swiss Re in 2002, underwriting large industrial risks in the Middle East, Asia and Australia. From 2013 onwards Andre was heading the Engineering & Construction team in the APAC region before assuming the role as Head of IRS APAC in 2018. | Presentation: De-risking in construction: Doing it the parametric way |
| Andrew Merrilees | CCi, a Rimkus Company | Head of Quantum Expert Services – Asia |  | Andrew is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor and a practising Expert Witness with over 28 years’ experience on major international projects in Singapore, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, Southeast Asia, the UK, and the Middle East, representing Clients, Consultants, Contractors, Joint Ventures and legal representatives. Andrew holds dual qualifications in quantity surveying and law and has experience on international building, engineering, power, petrochemical and oil and gas projects. | Presentation & panel discussion: Claims trends & claims inflation |
| Andy Kane | QBE Europe | Head of Construction & Engineering |  | Andy has 31 years insurance industry experience with 26 years in the London Market, primarily underwriting and management of construction and engineering including liability classes. Andy has been involved in many large projects in the UK and overseas in renewable energy, power generation, transport and oil and gas. Andy has an HND in Natural Sciences, MBA and DipCII. Andy sits on the executive committees of the London Engineering Group and the International Association of Engineering Insurers (IMIA). | Presentation & panel discussion: Construction market risk landscape Panel discussion: New materials new risks Presentation & panel discussion: Claims trends & claims inflation |
| Anparasan Kamachi | WhiteFern | Managing Partner |  | Anparasan is a highly regarded practitioner with more than 25 years in the insurance and reinsurance industry, on both the contentious and non-contentious aspects of insurance practice. He regularly handles high value and complex claims for most of the major insurance companies in Singapore. He is also an active mediator and member of the Singapore International Mediation Institute and the Singapore International Mediation Centre. | Presentation & panel discussion: Claims trends & claims inflation |
| Robert Drysdale | Descartes Underwriting | Head of Southeast Asia |  | As Head of Southeast Asia at Descartes Underwriting, Robert Drysdale oversees Descartes' Singapore office, spearheading operations as the company brings its parametric coverage closer to brokers and corporate clients throughout the APAC region. Prior to this he spent 14 years as a broker, working on complex placements from a wide range of territories and across multiple lines of business. He has previously worked at Howden Specialty, WTW and Arthur J Gallagher. | Panel discussion: ESG risk management Workshop 1: Parametric insurance – data-driven cover against dynamic construction risk |
| Blanca Berruguete | Allianz Commercial | Global Industry Solutions Director - Construction |  | Blanca Berruguete has over 20 years’ experience in insurance and reinsurance, 10 of them in the London Insurance market. In her role, Blanca works closely with underwriting and key account management to build industry-specific expertise as well as best practice among the regions and sister Allianz entities, with the goal of finding the best possible solutions for Construction customers within the Allianz universe. | Presentation & panel discussion: Construction market risk landscape |
| Cecilia Tse | Aon | Practice Lead – ESG, Climate and Enterprise Risk |  | Cecilia has a background as a lawyer with over 25 years of experience in combined legal, insurance and risk management. Her previous roles included working as Chief Risk Officer in organisations, both in the public and corporate sectors. She has been supporting organisations on a range of risk advisory services including enterprise risk, climate related risks and disclosures. Her recent work has included climate advisory/TCFD disclosures and ESG risk linking this with organisation enterprise risk performance. Cecilia was awarded Risk Professional of the Year in 2018, acknowledging her contribution to the risk profession in New Zealand. She also led a team which received the award for the Risk Team of the Year in 2018, for Excellence in Developing Risk Capability in an Organisation. | Panel discussion: ESG risk management |
| Clarence Ting | Aon | Global Claims Leader, Construction & Infrastructure |  | Clarence has been working in insurance since 2003. During this time he has been effectively managing Energy, Construction, Machinery Breakdown, Delay Start-Up and Business Interruption claims globally. Prior to joining Aon, he worked with global reinsurance firms leading their major and complex losses in the region. In his current role, he is a member of Aon’s Global Construction & Infrastructure Leadership team and a member of the Global Claims Leadership team delivering significant client value through Aon’s governance and escalation protocols, and dedicated Claims Advocacy. Clarence spent 9 years as Council Member with the Singapore Insurance Institute (SII), and is the Secretary & Founding Member of the Asia Power Forum (APF). | Presentation & panel discussion: Claims trends & claims inflation |
| Dave Kong | Zurich Insurance Co Ltd. | Head of Engineering Lines and Construction, APAC |  | Dave Kong joined Zurich Insurance in August 2009 to head up the construction team in the Asia Pacific Region. His main responsibilities are providing underwriting and technical support, developing, and executing construction business strategy in the region, training, and development for the underwriting team. Prior to Zurich, Dave worked with other international insurance companies and broking houses servicing and managing needs for major construction clients and their projects in the region as well as other countries in Europe, Middle Asia, Middle East and Latin America. | Workshop 2: Southeast Asia Regional Variations |
| Dr. Frank Wang | Shanghai City Development Law Firm | Senior Counsel, Attorney-at-Law |  | Dr. Wang has 17 years’ experience in casualty underwriting and claims adjusting for several leading international insurance and reinsurance companies including RSA, AIG, AXA, XL, and Gen Re before he started to practice law in China. He has strong expertise in casualty, financial lines, construction insurance and reinsurance. | Panel discussion: ESG risk management |
| Isabelle Kowalski | SCOR & Executive Committee Member, IMIA | Global Head Construction |  | Isabelle has worked for 27 years in the construction world, including six years as civil engineer and 21 years in the insurance and reinsurance industry. Since 2019 she has been Global Head Construction at SCOR Specialty Insurance, a member of the IMIA Executive committee, and is engaged in a number of working groups on ESG matters. She gained her experience in construction as site superintendent with Spie Batignolles and VINCI, as senior construction underwriter at SCOR, being lead market on a number of large projects around the world, and as senior practice leader at AXA Corporate Solutions, managing large corporate accounts on all construction lines. | Panel discussion: ESG risk management |
| James MacNeal | Aon | Global Industry Specialty Leader, Construction & Infrastructure Commercial Risk Solutions |  | James has 32 years of construction insurance experience, of which 18 have been with the Aon Group. He has travelled extensively and placed a large variety of major construction projects in most parts of the world for owners, contractors and infrastructure funds. He is currently Aon’s Global Head of Construction and Infrastructure team which includes over 1000 specialist colleagues in 48 countries. | Presentation & panel discussion: Construction market risk landscape |
| Joe Wee | Zurich Insurance Company Ltd | Head of Engineering & Construction |  | Joe Wee has been an insurance professional for over 23 years. He currently looks after the Engineering & Construction business in Singapore and the wider Asia & Pacific region. Prior to Zurich, he spent 6 years at Talbot Syndicate (now AIG) at Lloyd’s Asia, as Construction Class Underwriter, responsible for the Asia Pacific portfolio. He started off his insurance career as a broker at Aon before moving swiftly to Allianz and spent almost 10 years with the company. | Workshop 2: Southeast Asia Regional Variations |
| Justin Lim | HDI Global SE | Regional Engineering Underwriter |  | Justin is an engineering underwriter with over 10 years of underwriting experience in the insurance industry. He first started his insurance career as a broker for large and complex construction and power placement. In his current role, he underwrites construction and renewable energy across South East Asia, India subcontinent and Middle East. He specialises in systems engineering and is an associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute. | Presentation & panel discussion: Claims trends & claims inflation |
| LiLian Lau | Allianz Commercial | Head of Natural Resources and Construction, Hong Kong and Greater China |  | LiLian has more than 20 years of experience in the (re)insurance industry, with 14 years as a construction underwriter. A civil engineer by training, LiLian started her insurance career as a risk engineer in Malaysia before moving to Singapore to cover property facultative reinsurance. She has been based in Hong Kong for 16 years and currently heads the Natural Resources and Construction team in Hong Kong and Greater China for Allianz Commercial, where she is also the Regional Practice Leader for the heavy civils segment. | Presentation & panel discussion: Claims trends & claims inflation |
| Neeraj Das | Adani Group | Group Head Insurance |  | Neeraj has been associated with the insurance industry for the last 20 years. He has worked with insurance companies and insurance brokers in India and UK before wearing the hat of Risk Manager. He has previously managed insurance for one of the largest listed EPC companies in India and currently is the Group Head Insurance for one of the largest conglomerates in India and Asia. He is a Chartered Insurance Risk Manager from CII and is RIMS CRMP certified. | Panel discussion: New materials new risks |
| Nick Barham | CCi, a Rimkus Company | Head of Technical Expert Services – Asia |  | Nick is a Chartered Civil and Structural Engineer with over 20 years' experience in the construction industry. He started his career at a multi-faceted design consultancy, before focusing on forensic engineering, dispute resolution and expert witness work. He has been involved in the forensic examination and appraisal of a wide range of civil and building technical and contractual issues, and has advised lawyers, engineers, contractors, and insurers. He has also been responsible for the design of new build and remedial schemes. | Panel discussion: New materials new risks |
| Patrice Nigon | SRCS | Head Engineering & Construction APAC, Head of Property & Specialty SE Asia |  | Patrice Nigon is a graduate Marine Officer and also holds a Master in Electrical Engineering. After having worked in the industry he started his career as a reinsurance underwriter in Paris and in 2001, he joined Swiss Re in Zurich. He held different management positions in Engineering Underwriting including heading the Product Centre (Technical Direction) as well as heading Engineering in APAC. Patrice joined the Swiss Re Corporate Solutions team in June 2019. He is based in Singapore. | Presentation: Construction and renewable energy |
| Puneet Panchal | Cube Highways | Head of Insurance |  | Puneet has over 17 years of experience in insurance and risk management, including 11 years in the construction industry. Puneet was in business development with the leading insurer in India for 6 years, later leading the insurance portfolio of technology & construction group ANDRITZ for South East Asia region for 9 years. He is currently heading the risk and insurance function at Cube Highways, the largest platform of road highways in Indian region. | Presentation & panel discussion: Construction market risk landscape |
