Adrian Colosso
Group Chief Executive
www.lowndeslambert.com

Adrian joined Lowndes Lambert by acquisition when his specialist Lloyd’s broker, Crowley Colosso, was bought in 1992.

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Barry Smith
Chief Executive – Fortis UK
www.fortisinsurance.co.uk

Barry Smith took on the role of Chief Executive for Fortis UK in 2001, having spent his career in financial services.

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Bev FitzGerald, BA FCII FCILA
FitzGerald Consulting
www.fitzgeraldconsulting.co.uk

Bev FitzGerald founded the specialist Claims consultancy company, FitzGerald Consulting Ltd, five years ago.

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Jamie Marchant
Marketing and Communications Director – Groupama
www.groupama.co.uk

Previously at Guardian Royal Exchange in a senior claims capacity, Jamie joined Lombard Continental in 1987.

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John Kitson
Sales & Marketing Director – Norwich Union
www.norwichunion.com

John was Head of Life Marketing at Lloyds TSB when he joined Norwich Union in December 1995 as Head of Marketing.

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Judy Holt
National Broker Manager - Allianz Commercial
www.allianz.co.uk

Prior to taking on the National Broker Managers role in December 2006 role Judy worked as Key Account Manager (North & Midlands) building relationships with major consolidators and other key customers since joining Allianz in 2000.

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Martin B McLachlan
Managing Director - Polaris U.K. Limited
www.polaris-uk.co.uk

Following ten years with the Royal Insurance Group - where he was involved in a variety of roles, including marketing, systems and management - Martin moved into management consultancy.

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Neil Utley
Chief Executive – Equity Insurance Group
www.equitygroup.co.uk

Neil Utley was appointed group chief executive of Insurance Australia Group's UK operations in April 2007, assuming overall management of Equity Insurance Group and Hastings Direct.

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Nick Starling
Director of Insurance - Association of British Insurers
www.abi.org.uk

Nick Starling is Director of General Insurance and Health at the Association of British Insurers, the trade association for Britain’s insurance industry.

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Olly Laughton-Scott
Managing Partner – IMAS
www.imas.co.uk

Olly founded IMAS in 1992 which in 2007 advised on more sale mandates of privately held financial services business than any other UK adviser.

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Peter Staddon – ACII ACMI
Head of Technical Services – BIBA
www.biba.org.uk

Peter began his insurance career in 1971 and has worked for a number of insurance brokers covering most general insurance disciplines.

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Alexander (Sandy) W M Scott
Director General – The Chartered Insurance Institute
www.cii.co.uk

Sandy Scott was appointed Director General of the Chartered Insurance Institute on 11 September 2000.

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Simon Cooter
UK Distribution Director – Brit Insurance
www.britinsurance.com

Simon joined Brit Insurance in March 2007, to take up the new role of UK Distribution Director. He is responsible for sales & development strategy and delivery across all lines of business.

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Stuart Reid
Chief Executive - Venture Preference Limited

Stuart Reid is the Chief Executive of Venture Preference Limited (VP). VP writes circa £800m GWP and employs approximately 2000 staff across 57 offices in the UK.

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Theo Duchen
Chief Executive – Acturis
www.acturis.com

Theo Duchen is co-CEO and founder of Acturis, a leading Insurance Distribution Software Platform which was founded in 2001.

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Tim Wilson
Sales and Marketing Director – Close Premium Finances
www.closepf.com

Tim Wilson is Sales and Marketing Director of Close Premium Finance, a division of merchant bank Close Brothers Ltd.

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Manjit Rana
Global Strategic Development Director - quotes2me Limited
www.quotes2me.com

Manjit has over 20 years experience of supplying technology / e-business based solutions to the Insurance and Financial services market sectors. He has built over a dozen sales operations and launched a number of businesses.

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Jon Woodman
Trading Director, Broker – RSA
www.rsagroup.com

Jon has been with the RSA group for 24 years, and has worked in Spain, USA as well as the UK. He has spent most of his career working in the large corporate / global environment and ran RSA’s large corporate division – Risk Solutions – from 2003 to 2006 – before taking over as Trading Director overseeing all the commercial business units.

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Hugh Price
Partner – Hugh James
www.hughjames.com

Hugh is a Partner with Hugh James where he heads up the firm’s Professional indemnity group. His specialist areas are professional indemnity and high value catastrophic injury cases

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Ian Clark
Partner – Deloitte & Touche LLP
www.deloitte.com

Ian leads Deloitte's corporate finance insurance practice in London and has been a partner offering advice into the insurance industry for the last 17 years, having worked exclusively in the insurance sector for the past 25 years.

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Graeme Trudgill DIP CII
Technical and Corporate Affairs Executive, BIBA

Graeme’s career began in 1989 as a broker in general insurance. He joined BIBA in 2001 and ran the successful BIBA schemes and facilities portfolio. He now runs the BIBA Motor Panel and Professional Indemnity Initiative and plays a key role in BIBA’s public affairs.

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Stephen Mark Burrows,
Chief Executive

Stephen entered the insurance industry at the age of 17, working initially for Sun Alliance, before moving on to Berry Birch and Noble Plc at the age of 23. Stephen was appointed director at the age of 25. In December 1988, Stephen formed Burrows, Keith & Associates Limited, with certain of his colleagues. Burrows, Keith & Associates Limited then became the BKG group of companies and ultimately part of the Group in 2006.

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