| Full Name | Company | Job Title | Profile Picture | Speaker Bio | Speaking At |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| James Addington-Smith | Marsh Asia | President |  | - | Keynote: Living with change and responding to crisis |
| Jeremy Evans | Marsh Singapore | Risk Management Leader |  | Jeremy currently leads the Risk Management divisions for Marsh Singapore. Across Jeremy’s multinational and major client teams, Marsh offers the full suite of multinational service expertise for international clients. Jeremy has an extensive knowledge of multinational organizations and specializes in thoroughly understanding the complex and varied risks which large businesses face. He ascertains their needs and expectations, and implements bespoke risk management solutions to meet them. Jeremy specializes in facilitating the successful service delivery for global clients across a range of industries including construction, real estate, manufacturing, energy, marine, transport, and technology. His role at Marsh encompasses global client service, establishing strategic initiatives for the division, and business development for Asia’s largest accounts. | Getting a good deal from the insurance market |
| Gautam Iyer | Marsh (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | Client Manager, SVP |  | - | Mind the gap |
| Franck Baron | PARIMA | President, IFRIMA & Executive Team, International Affairs, |  | - | Keynote: Living with change and responding to crisis Retentions, captives and parametric solutions |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Emily Poh | Sompo | SVP, Head of Professional Lines, Sompo Commercial Insurance, Asia Pacific |  | Emily Poh is the Regional Head of Professional Lines Insurance, Asia Pacific, based in Singapore. Prior to joining the company in August of 2023, Emily was with Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance Company, where she was most recently Head of Executive and Professional Lines Insurance, Singapore, responsible for managing profitable professional lines portfolios. Before that Emily held senior professional and financial lines roles at AIG Singapore and Australia and WTW. Throughout her career, she has been instrumental in expanding financial lines practices from scratch, developing regional underwriting guidelines and products, and building successful teams and portfolios. | Protecting executives |
| Alasdair Walker | Sompo | Regional Head of Distribution, Sompo Commercial Insurance, Asia Pacific |  | Alasdair Walker joined Sompo in August of 2023 as Regional Head of Distribution Insurance, Asia Pacific. Alasdair is responsible for accelerating Sompo’s commercial insurance business growth across the region by developing and executing on the go-to-market strategy across sales, client management, distribution and other partnerships. He joins Sompo from Allianz where he held underwriting and distribution positions in the UK, South Africa and most recently Singapore, as Regional Head of Distribution managing a team across multiple locations. | Getting a good deal from the insurance market |
| 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 |
