Agenda 2024

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

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.

Richard has just shy of 40 years’ insurance experience having started his career with General Accident in 1986. In 2000, Richard moved to Hiscox Insurance Company where he took on responsibility for establishing the London branch, before moving to HCC International as Director of its professional indemnity (PI) division in 2004. In 2008, he took on the role of Head of Marketing & Broker Development working with all underwriting divisions of HCC International until 2010, when Richard joined the newly established Manchester Underwriting Management (MUM) as a Director working across the business.

In 2021, Pen Underwriting acquired MUM as a full-service, multi-class underwriting agency specialising in professional indemnity, management liability and casualty insurance business. Following integration, Richard took on the role of Managing Director for UK Financial Lines & Specialist Liability, which encompasses MUM and Pen’s specialist teams in UK professional indemnity, specialist liability, recruitment and UK solicitors’ PI business.

Nick has more than 22 years’ insurance experience, starting his career with RSA where he held a variety of roles before becoming the youngest Broker Development Manager in the company.  In 2009, Nick moved to Fusion as Regional Sales Manager in the South and was then promoted to Regional Manager for the whole Southern region.

In 2014, Nick joined Pen Underwriting during its formation, as Regional Director for the Midlands & South and was part of the commercial leadership team that set up Pen Risk Managed, its mid-market regional commercial offering.  Nick was subsequently promoted to Head of Sales & Distribution across Pen’s five divisions and multiple product lines. Nick’s responsibilities include managing Pen’s distribution strategy, management of Pen’s broker relationships and driving organic growth through both digital and transitionally traded distribution routes. 

Tony joined Acturis as a Technical BA where he worked on the development of the initial version of the Acturis Platform. During his 23 years at Acturis, Tony has led the core platform development team and the data and document functions and was appointed as the CTO for Acturis Limited in 2020. In February 2023 Tony was appointed CEO of the Acturis Platform Business with responsibility for operations in the UK, Ireland, Poland, France and Canada.

Tony passionately believes that to continue to be successful Acturis must deliver both a 1st class service and a market leading product. In order to achieve this, Acturis should look to leverage technology and to partner with likeminded companies. 

Jeff joined Acturis in 2012 with 20 years of industry experience with Close Premium Finance where he specialised in business development and e-commerce.

He has a vast experience of managing strategic business relationships and heads up the Acturis sales, marketing and customer experience function as well as managing a number of key insurer, broker and partner relationships.

Gordon joined Acturis as a data developer on the Data Warehousing team in 2008. In the 16 years since, Gordon has held various data roles at Acturis including leading the MI and data warehouse teams responsible for all of Acturis’ reporting, dashboard, and MI functions. In 2019, Gordon formed the Acturis Data Science team and has lead it since, building out Acturis’ AI and machine learning capabilities for its customers.

He is enthusiastic about data and the technologies that can unlock its potential.