Speaker information: Construction Risk Management

Company	Job Title	Name	Speaker Bio	Speaking At
SCOR & IMIA Executive Committee Member	Global Head of Construction	Isabelle Kowalski	Isabelle has worked for 30 years in the construction world, including six years as civil engineer and 25 years in the insurance and reinsurance industry. Since 2019 she has been Global Head Construction at SCOR Business Solutions. As member of the IMIA Executive committee, she is also engaged in a number of initiatives, the latest one being Claims Classification. 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	Workshop: Sustainability – How insurance can assist
Aon	Global Head of Construction and Infrastructure	James MacNeal	James is currently Aon’s Global Head of the Construction and Infrastructure Practice which includes over 1000 specialist colleagues in 48 countries. In this role James is responsible for growth, thought-leadership and best practice in this key industry practice. James is also the relationship lead for certain Aon clients. He has over 35 years of construction insurance experience, of which 21 have been with the Aon Group. He was previously at Marsh where he led the UK Construction Units broking team. James has travelled extensively and placed a wide variety of major construction projects in most parts of the world, for Owners, Contractors and Infrastructure Funds. James has a strong track record of delivering on clients' expectations with some of the largest firms in the Construction sector. He has designed insurance programmes across a wide variety of industry segments, with particular specialisation around energy/power, digital infrastructure and transportation. James is actively engaged as the Executive Sponsor / Account Director on some of Aon's largest construction accounts and leads the carrier relationships in this key industry.	Fireside discussion: Leadership approach to managing risk on large construction projects
CCi, a Rimkus Company	Head of Architectural Services	Joanne Williams	Joanne is an ARB registered Chartered Architect with more than 30 years of experience in the construction industry as a designer, technical lead, and project delivery manager across a broad range of building types, including residential, education, healthcare, leisure and industrial sectors. Joanne acts as an Expert Witness, writing reports in the fields of architecture and construction, including construction defects, professional negligence, design copyright issues and contract disputes. She also undertakes technical advisory reports in construction insurance-related matters and provides construction advice and contract troubleshooting. Joanne provides dispute resolution assistance, advice, and expertise, including CPR35 compliant reports for Court purposes and reports for adjudication and arbitration.	Workshop: Implications of the Buildings Safety Act (UK)
Aon	Executive Director	Joe Chivers	-	Fireside discussion: Managing GIGA projects – Vision 2030
Allianz Commercial	Professional Indemnity and Management Liability-Commercial	Katherine Watson	Kat is Head of Professional Indemnity at Allianz Commercial in the UK, a role she assumed in 2022. Prior to this she held underwriting roles of increasing seniority at different carriers including Ace, Hiscox and Berkshire Hathaway.	Panel discussion: Professional Liability – What does the London Market have to offer?
HDI	Principle Risk Engineer	Mark Allan	Within the insurance industry, Mark works in Risk Engineering for the Construction and Engineering sectors, undertaking UK and international CAR and EAR surveys for projects valued anything between a £few million up to €1bn within the building, tunnelling, dams, transportation and industrial sectors. He also provides desk top review and technical guidance to underwriting and clients, as well as training and contribution to professional working groups including development of guidance papers. Prior to joining the insurance industry in 2010, Mark worked for 10 years within Civil Engineering Industry, working on heavy civil engineering projects within transportation, power distribution, and aviation sectors in both site and design based roles.	Workshop: Green construction – new materials
Zurich Resilience Solutions	Risk Engineer	Matthew Taylor	Matt Taylor works as a Risk Engineer for Zurich Resilience Solutions, specialising in the design, construction and operation of solar farms and battery storage systems. He has worked on solar and battery storage plants for clients in the UK, France, Spain, Portugal and Ireland and has a broad knowledge of the industry ecosystem in Europe, Australia and the US.	Presentation: Renewable Energy - Insurance coverage for batteries
Beazley	Underwriter – Large Client Professions & Product Leader - Large AEC	Michael Attwell	Michael is an Underwriter and Product Leader at Beazley in London. He has excess of 20 years’ experience in professional liability insurance and has spent most of that time specialising on global construction, architecture and engineering firms. He was the inaugural chair of the International Underwriting Association’s construction working group, a grouping of professional liability underwriters specialising in construction risks.	Panel discussion: Professional Liability – What does the London Market have to offer?
IMIA	President	Mike Spencer	Michael has held the position of Secretary General at IMIA (International Association of Engineering Insurers) sine 2018. IMIA was formed in 1968 and today representing a network of experts in Engineering Insurance from around the world. IMIA has expanded greatly and now has 20 member countries with members from Reinsurers, Insurance Companies, and representatives from Loss Adjusters and also Insurance Brokers. Prior to joining IMIA Michael held senior construction insurance roles for Marsh, RSA, Zurich and SCOR.	Panel discussion: Emerging risks and insurance market response
Bechtel	General Manager – Commercial Infrastructure	Mike Wilkinson	Mike is a Partner at Bechtel, having joined in 2004 as the Global Head Counsel for the Mining & Metals business. Since then, he has served in various legal, financial, operational and management roles across the company. For several years, Mike was Bechtel’s Global Head of Risk Management, which included responsibility for Bechtel’s global insurance program. Before joining Bechtel, he specialised in front end project work in the motorway, rail, ports, water, power, mining and defence industries, largely working for owners, developers and financiers.	Fireside discussion: Leadership approach to managing risk on large construction projects
Invesis	Risk & Insurance BP	Nathalie Vandenbroucke	Nathalie Vandenbroucke is an experienced Risk Manager specialising in the construction sector. She currently serves as Risk & Insurance Business Partner for Invesis. Invesis is a global investor and developer in sustainable infrastructure projects who actively manage all aspects of an investment, from development and financing through to design, construction, maintenance, operations – all the way through to hand-back. Previously, Nathalie led the Risk Management, Compliance and Insurance portfolios of construction groups Eiffage in the Benelux region and BAM in Belgium and Luxembourg. She is a board member at Belrim.	Presentation & panel discussion: Climate change risk Workshop: Developing risk management strategies
Aon	Head of UK Retail Cyber	Nathan Hankin	Nathan Hankin is the head of the UK Retail Cyber team at Aon. He has fifteen years of experience in commercial insurance helping organisations across many industries of all sizes from start-ups to global organisations. Nathan has presented at many Cyber focused events across the country. He offers help and insight around Cyber risk with real life examples or media, to help educate colleagues and clients.	Presentation: Cyber risk
Zurich Insurance Company	Senior Underwriter, Cyber Liability	Nicholas Pritchard	Nick Pritchard is a Senior Cyber Underwriter for Zurich UK. Since 2019, Nick has specialised in underwriting large and complex cyber risks across a range of industries and territories. Alongside this, Nick has supported the development and launch of key cyber risk consultancy propositions aimed at improving customer risk posture. Prior to this, Nick worked in roles across underwriting, claims and sales as part of Zurich’s Graduate Programme.	Presentation: Cyber risk
Descartes Underwriting	UK & Ireland Business Development Director	Ola Jacob	Ola has enjoyed working in the London Market Insurance Sector for over twelve years on UK Retail, Product Recall, Terrorism, Onshore Energy and Parametric. Ola's background in Human-Computer Interaction and Psychology has fuelled his passion for working on new approaches to risk transfer and managing risk for clients. He's proud to be named Insurance Times Technology Champion of the Year. He has just become the Business Development Director for the UK & Ireland for Descartes Underwriting, a specialist parametric insurance MGA and insurer who covers natural catastrophe exposure globally.	Presentation & panel discussion: NatCat trends accelerating alternative risk transfer solutions
Aon	Design Firms Professional Risks	Oliver Heaton	-	Panel discussion: Professional Liability – What does the London Market have to offer?
Bechtel	Risk Manager	Paul Aird	Paul has been a corporate risk and insurance manager for over 30 years on a global basis. He has been a Risk & Insurance Manager for Bechtel (a global engineering and construction company) for most of his career (23+ years). He is currently based in London and the Risk Manager for Bechtel’s Infrastructure Division. This work has involved being responsible for the placement of insurance and the allocation of contractual risk for a variety of business lines including Power, Oil and Gas, Government and Infrastructure and he has worked extensively in both the USA and London with additional time living in Singapore, Dubai and Zurich.	Fireside discussion: Leadership approach to managing risk on large construction projects Panel discussion: Emerging risks and insurance market response Panel discussion: Professional Liability – What does the London Market have to offer?
SCOR	Global Practice Lead for Construction Claims	Paulina Herrington	Paulina has over 18 years of claims handling experience predominantly within CAR, EAR, onshore energy and power generation. Paulina joined SCOR UK in June 2022 as Global Practice Lead for Construction Claims where her focus is on managing large lead construction claims worldwide, with a large proportion of her portfolio being Builders Risk losses in the US. Prior to joining SCOR, she spent almost 11 years at Liberty Specialty Markets as a Senior Claims Specialist handling large and complex energy and construction claims. Before Liberty, Paulina spent 4 years working in the energy loss adjusting division of Charles Taylor. Paulina is also a deputy chair of the IUA’s Construction and Engineering Claims Committee which focuses on promoting good practice, hosting educational presentations and sharing industry insights within the London market claims community.	Panel discussion: Claims – trends & future
Zurich Insurance Company	Credit Lines Chief Underwriting Officer	Piergiorgio D'Ignazio	Piergiorgio D’Ignazio is the Global Head of Credit Lines for the Zurich Group. He has more than 25 years of experience in financial markets, banking and insurance. Prior to joining Zurich in 2017, Piergiorgio was the Chief Risk Officer of SACE, the Italian export credit agency, and held various positions as senior executive or board member for various trade insurance and factoring companies in the group and in other financial institutions. Before SACE, he worked for several major financial institutions in Italy and Europe. He holds a M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from University of Pisa.	Workshop: Contractor / subcontractor insolvency
HDI	Director of Engineering and Construction	Richard Beeby	Richard has 24 years insurance industry experience, 8 years of those at HDI Global and is responsible for a diverse portfolio covering; commercial and residential construction, renewable energy (BESS, PV and Wind), civil engineering and manufacturing. Products written include Construction and Engineering Annual Programmes and Project Specifics and Inherent Defects Insurance in the UK and Internationally.	Workshop: Green construction – new materials
Portakabin Limited	Head of Risk & Internal Audit	Richard Hoult	-	Advancing your risk career: exclusive risk manager-only Airmic breakfast SIG: presentation & discussion