| 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. | Retentions, captives and parametric solutions
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| Mani Dhesi | Aon | Head of Growth & Client Liaison APAC - Cyber Risk |  | Mani Dhesi is the Head of Growth and Client Engagement for Aon. Mani has extensive experience in developing cyber risk programs for multiple multinational organisations. Mani's expertise includes cybersecurity assessments, IT disaster recovery, risk quantification, and supporting the cyber underwriting process for a range of clients. Mani has international awareness and in-country experience in the US, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Mani has supported clients with the implementation of cybersecurity frameworks such as NIST CSFY, ISO 27001, and CIS Critical Controls. Mani is also a patent owner for methods and systems for cybersecurity assessment of organisations' technology infrastructure. | Cyber
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| Shiwei Jin | AXA XL | Head of Multinational Solutions, APAC & Europe |  | Prior to her appointment as Head of Global Programs, APAC & Europe at AXA XL Shiwei was Global Program & Captive Regional Director, APAC, AXA XL and responsible for driving Global Program and Captive business as well as developing strong relationships with AXA XL’s broker partners and clients across APAC.
She is a seasoned insurance professional specialising in global commercial insurance programs. She has almost 20 years experience in the insurance industry across strategy, distribution and global programmes. With a proven track record in working with global clients across the world, Shiwei provides bespoke and complex global programme and captive solutions, as well as formulating new global programmes. | Mind the gap
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| 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. | Getting a good deal from the insurance market
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| 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. | Getting a good deal from the insurance market
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| Robert Drysdale | Descartes Underwriting | Head of Southeast Asia |  | Robert Drysdale is the Head of Southeast Asia at Descartes Underwriting, leading the office in Singapore and bringing Descartes’ parametric solutions closer to brokers, corporate clients and governments in the Asia Pacific region. Before joining Descartes 3 years ago, Robert has previously worked as an insurance and reinsurance broker in Singapore, Australia and London, specialising in placing complex risks across various territories and lines of business including property, power, energy and construction. | Retentions, captives and parametric solutions
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| 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. | Retentions, captives and parametric solutions
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| 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. | Getting a good deal from the insurance market
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| Vanessa Priede | Swiss Re | International Programs 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. | Mind the gap
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| Victoria Tan | Ayala, and Board Member, PARIMA | Executive Director, Group Sustainability and Risk Management Unit, |  | Victoria Tan currently manages external engagements and policy developments related to climate and nature. She has helped steer Ayala Corporation towards a low-carbon and more sustainable future. Instrumental in developing Ayala's commitment to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, Victoria has played a key role in building Ayala's groupwide forest and biodiversity protection initiative. Both programmes place Ayala at the forefront of climate action in the Philippines.
In addition to her role in Ayala Corporation, Victoria actively participates in regional and national organisations that elevate the risk management profession and that increase awareness on sustainable development. | ESG within the risk management framework
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| Volker Ziegs | Allianz Commercial/ AGCS | Regional Head of Claims Asia |  | Volker had his Legal Training in Germany and in the US (Bonn University and College of Law The Ohio State University) and is a qualified lawyer in Germany. He has 22 years of experience with Allianz working in international and complex claims in the corporate area. Since July 2013 Volker has been based in Singapore, first as the Regional Head of Claims for Long Tail Lines Asia Pacific being responsible for Liability, Financial Lines and Aviation claims for the entire region.
In July 2020 he was the Regional Head of Claims for Asia Pacific at Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty and in January 2024, he assumed the role of Regional Head of Claims Asia, Allianz Commercial. Before joining the Singapore office, he was responsible for Liability claims in the Head Office in Munich handling claims around the world with special emphasis on the US market. | Claims: How do I get my claim paid where and when I need it?
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