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Full Name | Company | Job Title | Profile Picture | Speaker Bio | Speaking At |
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Tom Anderson | Aon | Executive Director | Tom has 20 years’ experience in construction and construction insurance. His career was spent at one of the UK’s largest contractors where he led their insurance and risk management programme. Now at Aon he is now focussed on supporting the Professional Services team and their clients with insight and innovation. | Panel discussion: Construction market risk landscape | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
Steven Carney | Copenhagen Infrastructure Service Company (CISC) | Risk and Insurance Specialist | Steven is an insurance specialist at CISC, who deliver construction and operational services to CIPs market leading greenfield renewable pipeline of approximately 120 GW of energy projects across technologies and geographies. | Presentation & panel discussion: Climate change changing construction | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
John Colquhoun | EFI Global | Head of EFI Global UK | - | 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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
John English | Aon Captive & Insurance Management | CEO | - | Fireside chat: Captives on the rise | |
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 | |
Robert Innes | Zurich | Senior Risk Engineer – Construction | Robert is a Chartered Civil Engineer (ICE) with 10 years industry experience for Arup and six years working for Zurich Insurance Company. He currently leads the UK Construction and Power Generation Risk Engineering Team for Zurich Resilience Solutions. | Presentation & panel discussion: New materials - new risks | |
Morten Jensen | Sedgwick | Technical Manager, Consulting Engineer Renewable Energy | - | Workshop: Renewable energy technology and the insurance market | |
Nathan Jones | Aon | Director of Digital, UK & EMEA | - | Presentation & panel discussion: Emerging trends in due diligence for infrastructure transactions | |
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 |