2024 Speakers

Andrea is a Partner and Head of Financial Services for Inflexion where he is responsible for leading the origination and execution of majority and minority investment opportunities in this sector across Europe.

Prior to joining Inflexion, Andrea spent twelve years at Cinven where he covered Financial Services. During his time at Cinven, Andrea invested in several businesses including Avolon, Eurovita, Guardian, Just, Viridium and True Potential. Andrea began his career at Citigroup where he worked in the Investment Banking division.

Andrea holds a cum laude degree in Economics and Business Administration from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan.

Chris is the Managing Director for Cyber at Travelers Insurance. Responsible for growing the cyber portfolio and ensuring its place in offering a market leading product supported by first class incident response, and pre loss service proposition. With over 20 years of experience in the insurance industry, Chris has worked with some of the largest specialist carriers in the market. Prior to joining Travelers Chris was a Cyber Product Manager covering UKI, Continental Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific providing expertise and gaining insight into Cyber Insurance markets worldwide

Daniel joined Aquiline's London team in 2019 and is a principal at the firm. Prior to joining the firm, he was a director in the financial institutions group at Deutsche Bank in London, where he advised on M&A and capital markets transactions across Europe. Previously, he worked in the financial institutions group at Credit Suisse and at Lazard.

Graziano Brady is a senior economist on AM Best’s country risk team. His primary focus is on analysing the economic and political risks affecting economies around the world, and determining how these risks impact an insurer’s creditworthiness. Prior to joining AM Best, Graziano worked at NERA Economic Consulting’s energy practice, where he specialised in analysing energy markets to help quantify damages in international arbitration disputes.

Graziano is a CFA charter-holder, holds a master’s degree in economics from the University of St Andrews and a bachelor’s degree in philosophy, politics, and economics from the University of Oxford. He is also pursuing a part-time degree in artificial intelligence from the University of Bath.

James is a Senior Risk Management Consultant at Travelers Insurance, specialising in cyber security. He is responsible for the analysis of larger or more complex risks’ security postures, enabling Travelers underwriters to confidently offer larger limits. With extensive experience across multiple industries including insurance, James has worked on organisational technology transformations, as well as remediation of compromised environments. Prior to joining Travelers, James played a pivotal role in enhancing software used to help protect Critical National Infrastructure, bolstering defences against both known and emerging zero day cyber threats.

James O’Gara is based in London, joined Warburg Pincus in 2014 and co–leads the Financial Services team in Europe. James led the firm’s investments in the AA, McGill and Partners and Specialist Risk Group, and has also been involved with Warburg Pincus’ investments in Evelyn Partners (formerly Tilney Smith & Williamson), Blau Direkt, Max (formerly Leumi Card), Allfunds, IONOS by 1&1, Santander Asset Management, and DBRS. Prior to joining Warburg Pincus, James was an investment professional at H.I.G. Capital. He received a BS in Business Administration from Georgetown University and an MBA from London Business School.

After starting his career in motor underwriting, Peter switched to broking, and eventually 
led a management buy-out of the UK commercial division of Farr in 2000 which he then 
named FMW Risk Services Ltd. He grew this business to approximately £25m gross written 
premium before selling the business in December 2007 to Oval. In 2012 Peter was 
appointed Chief Executive of Oval and he ran the business through until its eventual sale to 
Arthur J. Gallagher which completed in April 2014.
In May 2015 Peter concluded a management buy-in of Aston Scott and then led the 
merger with Lark Group in 2017. As Group CEO of Aston Lark, he now leads a business 
with more than 1,500 staff operating from offices across the UK and Ireland and writing
approximately £1billion of gross written premium. Aston Lark is backed by the merchant 
banking division of Goldman Sachs alongside Bowmark Capital LLP.
Peter is also non-executive chairman at Hastings Insurance Services Ltd, the broker arm of 
Hastings Direct, and up until recently served as chairman of the Large Brokers’ Advisory 
Board at the British Insurance Brokers Insurance Association (BIBA). He is currently Deputy 
President of the Chartered Insurance Institute and has been elected President for 2022.
Peter lives in Colchester with his wife, Sue, and has three children aged 21, 19 and 14 and 
his hobbies include cycling, golf, shooting and watching rugby