| Full Name | Company | Job Title | Profile Picture | Speaker Bio | Speaking At |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charlotte Candy | AECOM | Associate Director Risk Management |  | Charlotte is a certified IRM member with a construction and legal background. She is experienced in enterprise and project risk management, corporate risk strategy, development and implementation of risk improvement plans, and has a demonstrable track record in delivering quantitative risk analysis activities. Charlotte was awarded CIR Magazine Risk Manager of the Year 2021. | Presentation & panel discussion: People risk talent gap Workshop: Risk identification and modelling |
| Chris Dulake | Mott MacDonald | Global Sector Leader, Transport |  | Chris is currently Global Rail and Transit Leader at Mott MacDonald. He was previously Engineering Director for HS2 Phase 1, having moved from the role of Chief Engineer for the Crossrail Programme, where he provided functional leadership to HS2 Phase 1 engineers and was Lead Engineer for the project. On Crossrail he acted as the engineering technical authority providing technical leadership for the programme. He was heavily involved in establishing the Tunnelling and Underground Construction Academy, contract procurement strategy, delivering safety through innovation and design. | Panel discussion: Construction market risk landscape Presentation & panel discussion: New materials - new risks |
| Clive Trencher | AGCS | Senior Risk Consultant – Construction |  | Clive Trencher is a Senior Risk Consultant at Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGSC) focusing on Construction risks. Drawing on 40 years of engineering experience, in his role Clive advises on risk transfer and loss prevention solutions for large construction project in the UK and Globally. | Workshop: ESG risk management |
| David Pryce | Fenchurch Law | Senior Partner |  | David was a founding partner of Fenchurch Law, which was the first law firm in the UK to specialise exclusively in representing policyholders in insurance coverage disputes. Ranked as a leading individual by both Legal 500 and Chambers, David leads Fenchurch Law’s Reinsurance & International Risk practice group and has a particular focus on insurance disputes arising out of large construction projects both in the UK and abroad. | Professional indemnity case study: Causation & Aggregation - A Deep Dive |
| Dermot Skinnader | Aviva & CIREG member | Senior Construction Risk Consultant |  | Dermot is a Chartered Civil Engineer (CEng MICE) responsible for the development and implementation of risk management programmes for CAR & EAR projects primarily across Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. He has been in the London Market for seven years, with his industry experience prior to this involving the delivery of heavy civil engineering and marine renewable energy projects. | Workshop: Water leak management |
| Donais Deetz | Aon | Director |  | Donais has worked at Aon for 6 years. She began her career with Aon working on the Global Construction & Infrastructure team, based in Chicago. In the middle of 2019, she relocated to Madrid, Spain to join the EMEA team focused on Construction Industry Vertical. In this new role, she supports regional broking and growth strategy, and supporting in country teams. | Presentation & panel discussion: People risk talent gap Presentation & panel discussion: Emerging trends in due diligence for infrastructure transactions |
| Hardeep Khela | Swiss Re Corporate Solutions | Senior Engineering Underwriter |  | Hardeep Khela has worked at Swiss Re Corporate Solutions for the past 6 years. He has broad underwriting experience, including as a lead, across a range of international infrastructure, heavy industry and renewable energy projects. Prior to joining Swiss Re, he spent 6 years in the civil engineering industry with Mott Macdonald followed by 3 years as a Management Consultant in major capital projects. | Presentation & panel discussion: De-risking in construction - doing it the parametric way |
| 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. | Presentation & panel discussion: People risk talent gap |
| Joe Warner | SCOR | EMEA Professional Lines |  | Joe has worked in the insurance industry as an underwriter for over 20 years. At SCOR he specialises in professional indemnity for large corporate risks, with a focus in the engineering, construction and legal sectors. Prior to SCOR, he worked for RSA, Hiscox, and MS Amlin. Through these roles he has underwritten a variety of professions from around the world, in the Lloyd’s, London, US and UK markets. | Presentation: Professional Indemnity Coverage |
| Jose Antonio Carbonero | BBVA | Head of Structured Finance, UK & Northern Europe |  | Jose Antonio Carbonero joined BBVA in 2001. Since 2019 he has been the Head of Structured Finance in the UK and Northern Europe. His team is responsible for advising, structuring, underwriting and arranging complex structured financing, including project finance (ie. limited and non-recourse finance), leveraged finance and other specialised finance. | Presentation: Financing - the investor's perspective |
| Juan Jimenez Perez | ERG International | Project Finance Director |  | Juan joined ERG in 2022 after a career in investment banking and corporate finance. He started as an investment banking analyst covering energy and construction stocks in LATAM. Later, Juan joined the Santander Group in Madrid, where he supported key banking and insurance JV investments in Latin America. At Atradius NV, he led M&A transactions in Europe, Africa and South America, reporting directly to Management in these efforts. Prior to joining ERG, Juan worked for AON Plc as an M&A A-VP for Europe and Asia, actively participating in the closing of the group's largest transactions of the last 10 years in Europe. | Presentation & panel discussion: People risk talent gap |
| Louis Bollaert | Descartes | Chief Commercial Officer |  | Louis has over 14 years of experience in credit and financing solutions, where he began his insurance career at Euler Hermes Frances as a Products and Services Manager, then as a Large Brokerage Sales Director and finally a Distribution and Partnerships Director. Then in 2015, Louis served as Head of Credit, Financing and Political Risks at Aon. In addition to this, he took over the responsibility of the M&A and Transaction Solutions department. | Workshop: Parametric insurance |
| Martin Clark | Zurich Insurance Co Ltd | Global Head of Property and Energy Claims |  | Martin has been in the insurance industry since 1987. He re-joined the Zurich group in July 2015 and is responsible for property, energy and engineering claims for the group. He has worked in the international claims arena for the last 20 plus years and has experience in managing underwriting and global broking advocate claims teams. He has handled some of the markets largest and more complex claims over recent years. | Presentation & panel discussion: Claims trends and claims inflation |
| Mathieu Pasqual | SCOR | Deputy CUO, Specialty Insurance Alternative Solutions |  | Mathieu Pasqual leads the underwriting team in charge of structured solutions, captive reinsurance and parametric products for corporate clients globally. He joined SCOR in 2018, and previously worked at Swiss Re for 10 years, where he held various roles in client management, business development, corporate strategy and alternative risk transfer. Mathieu is based in Paris, he holds a Master in Management from ESCP Business School in Paris and an MBA from Columbia Business School in New-York. | Fireside chat: Captives on the rise |
| Mikaeli Langinvainio | Inclus | CEO |  | Mikaeli Langinvainio brings 20+ years of experience in risk management, and peace mediation across 20 countries on three continents. He co-founded Inclus, providing in collaborative risk management software – specialising in complex projects. Previously, he worked as Senior Manager at CMI - Martti Ahtisaari Centre, leading the Methods and Tools Unit. He served as a strategic analysis team leader at the Finnish Defence Administration, and acted as the National Coordinator of Civilian Crisis Management Training and Research at the Finnish Ministry of Interior. | Workshop: Get prepared for Construction 4.0 |
| Neil Timberlake | JPIC Group Ltd | Director |  | Neil has underwriting, insurance broking and risk manager experience in a career spanning over 35 years. More recently, he has spent 16 years in the Real Estate industry, leading the insurance teams for both Columbia Threadneedle and Land Securities and helping to shape the corporate risk management framework for both organisations. | Presentation & panel discussion: New materials - new risks Presentation & panel discussion: De-risking in construction - doing it the parametric way |
| Nick Wildgoose | Supplien Consulting | Director |  | Nick is a qualified accountant, supply chain and risk professional and has held a variety of global financial, procurement and commercial positions in several industry sectors. Working for companies such as PWC, Linde Group, The Virgin Group, Zurich Insurance Group and DHL Resilience360. He has served on the Board of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply which is the biggest procurement professional body in the world. He also served as a specialist advisor to the World Economic Forum and was Chairman of the Supply Chain Risk Leadership Council. | Presentation & panel discussion: Supply chain risk |
| Nicolas Lucas | Allianz Global Investors | Infrastructure Debt Director |  | Nicolas Lucas is a senior portfolio manager in the infrastructure debt platform of Allianz Global Investors. Nicolas invests in the Infrastructure, Transport, Utilities, Energy and Renewables sectors (including greenfield and brownfield), in BBB+ to BB- transactions (project financings, acquisition financings, refinancings). | Presentation: Financing - the investor's perspective |
| Patrick Bravery | Liberty Specialty Markets | Global Head of Civil Construction |  | Patrick leads the underwriting of civil engineering construction projects in Liberty offices worldwide. Prior to joining Liberty, Patrick spent 13 years in construction underwriting at both Swiss Re and within Lloyds of London. In all his roles he has been primarily involved in the insurance of major construction projects worldwide, most notably as a lead underwriter for British Airport Authority’s Terminal 5 Heathrow, Land Transport Authority, Singapore Circle, Downtown and Cross Island Lines and Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York East Side Access and 2nd Avenue projects. | Workshop: Tunnel Code of Practice report |
| Peter Kapler | Aon | Managing Director |  | Peter heads up Aon’s Canadian Performance Security practice group and manages the Subcontractor Default Insurance (SDI) product in Canada. Building on a decade of Surety underwriting, Peter’s responsibilities include Surety and SDI account management, customisation of risk transfer solutions, broking, development of risk mitigation programs, consultations on prequalification program implementation, as well as risk control, operational best practices and loss avoidance. | Presentation & panel discussion: Supply chain risk |
