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Full Name | Company | Job Title | Profile Picture | Speaker Bio | Speaking At |
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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 | |
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. | Panel discussion: Construction market risk landscape Presentation & panel discussion: Supply chain risk | |
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 | |
Tim Chapman | SCOR | Global Segment Leader Civil Works & EMEA Head of Construction | Tim is a Chartered Civil Engineer and is currently Global Segment Leader for Civil Works and EMEA Head of Construction for SCOR. He commenced his career working as an engineer in the construction and detailed design of large infrastructure projects and then as a risk control engineer before becoming an underwriter. | Presentation & panel discussion: New materials - new risks | |
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). | Panel discussion: Construction market risk landscape Presentation & panel discussion: Claims trends and claims inflation | |
John Colquhoun | EFI Global | Head of EFI Global UK | - | Workshop: Renewable energy technology and the insurance market | |
Cedric Wong | Swiss Re Corporate Solutions | Head of Engineering & Construction | - | Workshop: Tunnel Code of Practice report | |
Luise O'Gorman | Aon | Head of ESG, Transaction Advisory Service | - | Presentation & panel discussion: Emerging trends in due diligence for infrastructure transactions | |
Peter Green | Sedgwick | Head of Global Construction & Engineering | Peter is a qualified and highly experienced practitioner specialising in all types of construction and engineering claims. He deals with a variety of contractors all risks, construction liability and PFI claims having gained a wealth of knowledge in policy and contract interpretation, including DE and LEG exclusions and JCT and NEC contracts. As head of the global construction and engineering team, Peter manages a team of over 25 dedicated construction adjusters, many of whom are multiskilled professionals in disciplines including legal practice, civil and structural engineering and quantity surveying. | Presentation & panel discussion: Claims trends and claims inflation | |
Meg Chaperon | Descartes Underwriting | Head of Marketing & Communications | Before joining Descartes, Meg worked as a Product Manager in Silicon Valley, where she led go-to-market strategy and international expansion efforts in APAC and EMEA markets. Prior to that, she worked at the forefront of climate science and international climate negotiations as a consultant in Washington DC, Africa, and the Pacific. | Workshop: Parametric insurance | |
Charles Winter | Aon | Head of Strategic Risk Consulting | - | Workshop: Risk identification and modelling | |
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 | |
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 | |
Barbara van Berkum | TBI Holdings | Insurance Manager | Barbara has worked as insurance manager for TBI Holdings B.V. since October 2020. Previously she worked for over 5 years as a senior underwriter for AIG, specialising in analysing environmental risks of large businesses worldwide. She is also an active member of NARIM, the Dutch association of risk & insurance managers and is coordinator of the Knowledge Center Sustainability. | Presentation: Mass timber case study | |
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 | |
mark peterson | aon | Managing Director | - | Presentation: Professional Indemnity Coverage | |
Ante Petricevic | Aon | Managing Director | - | Presentation: Professional Indemnity Coverage | |
Isabelle Kowalski | SCOR & Executive Committee Member, IMIA | P&C | Head of SBS 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 | |
David Ward | Sedgwick | Practice Group Leader (Global Renewables) | - | Workshop: Renewable energy technology and the insurance market | |
Adrian Cooney | Turner & Townsend | Project Director, Risk | Adrian has been leading risk management support on major capital programmes for over 15 years across many sectors including rail and aviation. He is a Technical Specialist at the IRM and is known for his expertise in Quantitative Risk modelling. Adrian is currently the Risk Management Lead for the Capital Delivery portfolio at Heathrow Airport. | Presentation & panel discussion: New materials - new risks |