| Full Name | Company | Job Title | Profile Picture | Speaker Bio | Speaking At |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lawrence Bird | Marsh Advisory Asia | Captive Consulting Leader |  | Lawrence is in Marsh Asia Pacific’s Risk Advisory Practice and has responsibility for helping clients establish new captives and ensuring clients with existing captives optimise the strategic risk financing benefits their captives bring by focusing on retention levels and lines of business that may be suitable. Lawrence works primarily with the Risk Analytics team, the client service teams, Alternative Risk Solutions team, Placement team and the Chief Client Officers, which means Marsh provides a fully integrated service proposition focused on risk and risk financing with Captives at the heart of the risk financing strategy. | Captives: their role in your global insurance programme |
| Andrew Chan | Institute of Internal Auditors Hong Kong | Governor, Board of Directors |  | Andrew has over 18 years of professional experience in Risk Management, Compliance, Auditing and Finance across a diverse range of industries. Qualified in Australia with Big 4 firms, Andrew moved to Hong Kong over a decade ago and since then has worked in global risk roles at Hong Kong Shanghai Hotels, Dairy Farm, PCCW and most recently at China Light and Power (CLP). A believer in giving back to the community, Andrew was the 2022 Chair of CA ANZ Hong Kong Council. He is currently serving as Governor, Board of Directors at the Institute of Internal Auditors, Hong Kong. He has been awarded Fellowship of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (FCA). | Asian global programmes: structure, focus and flexibility |
| Brent Clawson | Marsh | Global Placement Leader |  | - | Insurance market outlook: direction and impact on renewals |
| Carrie Huang | AXA XL | Underwriting Manager, Crisis Management & Special Risks |  | Carrie Huang has over 20 years of experience in the insurance industry and is responsible for managing and expanding the War, Terrorism, and Political Violence Insurance portfolio that she has specialised in for the past 11 years for Asian clients and business partners. Carrie's expertise extends beyond underwriting complex terrorism and political violence risks, she is very experienced in designing and implementing multinational program solutions that safeguard various clients' global assets, enabling them to navigate geopolitical risks and comply with local regulations and compliance requirements for their international operations. Her extensive experience encompasses risk assessment, policy and programme structuring, and engagement with reinsurance markets and local network partners for local policy issuance and management. | Political violence & terrorism (PVT) |
| Robert Hunziker | Swiss Re Corporate Solutions | Head of Asia |  | Robert is a global insurance professional with over 20 years of experience in Underwriting, Client & Portfolio Management, M&A and Regional Leadership. Since joining Swiss Re in 2001, he has held various underwriting and leadership positions across Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. Prior to relocating to Singapore in 2020, Robert's accomplishments with Swiss Re Corporate Solutions include leading the Group's North American Energy team, establishing the subsidiary in Texas (USA), and steering the strategic direction across all Lines of Business for the Central and Western US regions. | Risk landscape: rising to the challenges of the new world order |
| Gautam Iyer | Marsh (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | Client Manager, SVP |  | - | Asian global programmes: structure, focus and flexibility |
| Rahul Kumar | Cushman & Wakefield | Risk Manager APAC |  | Rahul Kumar is a seasoned professional with a proven track record of delivering strategic solutions to multinational clients. After building the foundation as an insurance broker servicing all lines of insurance for a diversified group of multinational clients, he joined the in-house Risk Management team at a fortune 100 technology-based industry leader and soon became the APAC lead for Risk and Insurance. More recently, Rahul is engaged as APAC leader for Risk and Insurance for a Global Commercial Real Estate firm. Rahul specialises in structuring and implementing global programs, leveraging his expertise to mitigate risks and optimise insurance solutions for the business. His expertise includes: Global program design and implementation, risk assessment and mitigation strategies, and insurance market analysis and negotiations. | Asian global programmes: structure, focus and flexibility |
| Toby Nabarro | Fenchurch Law | Director |  | - | Resolving coverage disputes without damaging commercial relationships |
| Suchitra Narayanan | Revantage Asia, and Board Member, PARIMA | VP, Head of Risk & Insurance |  | Suchitra has nearly 20 years of risk management experience, spanning across London, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. She has worked across a diverse range of industries, including financial services, oil and gas, aviation, e- commerce and real estate. Suchitra started her career in London where she helped organizations design and implement risk frameworks as well as structure risk transfer mechanisms. She has successfully worked with senior stakeholders and boards to define and instill risk management. At Revantage Asia, Suchitra leads the Risk & Insurance team, working with Blackstone’s real estate portfolio in Asia Pacific to optimise insurance and operational risk management. | Insurance market outlook: direction and impact on renewals |
| Puneet Panchal | Cube Highways | Sr. Vice President and Head - 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. | Climate risk: mitigating risk & building resilience |
| Evelyn Pang | AXA XL | Multinational Solutions & Captive Manager, Asia |  | Evelyn is responsible for driving AXA XL's Global Programme and Captive businesses, as well as developing strong relationships with brokers and clients in the Asia region. She has over 15 years of experience handling multinational programmes in complex client portfolio and various industries including trading, manufacturing, logistics, airline, terminal operation and financial institutions. Prior to joining AXA XL, she worked as a Casualty underwriter for Berkley's Greater China business, and she was a Senior Manager in a major brokerage firm responsible for structuring, securing capacity in placement and implementing global programmes to multinational corporates | Asian global programmes: structure, focus and flexibility |
| Guillaume Parard | AXA XL | Head of Property & Casualty, Asia |  | - | Climate risk: mitigating risk & building resilience |
| Vanessa Priede | Swiss Re Corporate Solutions | International Programmes APAC Lead |  | Vanessa is dedicated to enhancing the IP servicing platform in the region by leveraging best practices, processes, systems, knowledge, and automation improvements to benefit Swiss Re Corporate Solutions' global clients. With over 20 years of experience in multinational insurance management, Vanessa has been instrumental in establishing the International Program Unit, which also supports global clients in the UK and Ireland. When she was working in London, she built a world-class multinational platform that offers account management services for all allocated captive and global accounts. Additionally, Vanessa pioneered a complex Capacity Management strategy for the UK & Ireland International Programs, introducing a robust regional operational efficiencies strategy model, among many other significant accomplishments for the business. | Asian global programmes: structure, focus and flexibility |
| Graeme Riddell | Marsh | Climate & Sustainability Consulting Leader, Asia Pacific |  | Graeme leads Climate & Sustainability Consulting across Asia and the Pacific within Marsh Advisory as well as Marsh’s Global COE on Climate. Globally the team of more than 40 climate experts helps our clients understand the risks and transformation imperative that managing climate change will have on their business, their assets, and value chains. This involves working with clients to integrate ESG and sustainability risks into their enterprise risk management frameworks, assess current policies and frameworks, build capacity to understand and manage such risks, and engage internally and externally to realise the benefits of effective risk management strategies. Graeme also supports clients with their climate risk management strategies with a strong focus on physical risks and resilience combining Marsh’s unique capabilities in supporting end-to-end climate risk management from asset-level engineering studies to cross-portfolio strategy. | Climate risk: mitigating risk & building resilience |
| Rinnah Roque | HDI Global | Service Delivery Manager, Producing Office IP |  | Rinnah has 30 years insurance experience. After beginning her career at Pioneer Insurance Company in the Philippines, she worked at Aon, initially in Manila, then in the Sydney office. From 2011, Rinnah worked at Zurich in Sydney where she was responsible for managing International Programmes. Rinnah joined HDI Australia in January 2020 and manages the Produced business in Australia and the region. | Asian global programmes: structure, focus and flexibility |
| Soni Srivastava | Deutsche Bank | Regional Head of Corporate Insurance, APAC |  | - | Captives: their role in your global insurance programme |
| Steve Tunstall | PARIMA | Director & General Secretary |  | Steve has over thirty years of experience owning, running and future proofing companies, mostly in Asia. He is an experienced CEO, MD & Chair, managing teams of up to 500 employees in construction and elsewhere. Currently he is a Risk and Insurance Special Advisor & Director/Chair for several insurance, captive & ILS vehicles regulated by the MAS. He is also Co-Founder of the Pan Asia Risk and Insurance Management Association. | Captives: their role in your global insurance programme Insurance market outlook: direction and impact on renewals |
