DAVID BLACKMAN
Deputy Editor
Insurance Times
David works within the Analytics team in London. He has particular responsibility for Enterprise Risk Management, including advice on regulatory issues (eg Solvency II), rating agency matters and broader financial and capital modeling. He is also heading the Financial Management Initiative for the Willis Research Network.
David is a firm believer in the practical rather than the theoretical. He therefore also maintains an active interest in the modeling support and broking of large reinsurance transactions. Specialisations include large national catastrophe schemes, including capital market involvement, cancellation programme (he worked on the world’s largest) and the modeling of trade credit and political risk (an intellectual and practical challenge).
David holds an honours degree in mathematics from the University of Bristol. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute, a national property insurance prize-winner and Vice-President of the London Insurance Institute.
HASSE JØRGENSEN
Chief Executive Officer
Sampension
GRAHAM OLSEN
IBM
Graham Olsen is an IBM actuary with 22 years’ experience in the insurance sector. He has implemented and managed actuarial systems for most of his career and now leads IBM’s Solvency II business solutions.
CHRIS SAUNDERS
IBM
Chris Saunders is an expert in data governance and stewardship for IBM Global Business Services. He has been involved in financial services regulation since the 1980s, and worked in the insurance industry for 10 years before joining IBM in January 2011. Chris is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and a Member of the Operational Research Society, for whom he has written prize-winning research papers.
PAUL TRAYNOR
Managing Director
BNY Mellon
Paul jointly leads our Insurance Capital & Risk Solutions Group, a team of 25 professionals from across our Investment Management, Investment Services and Global Markets businesses focused on delivering solutions to our Insurance clients and their Asset and Hedge Fund Manager partners. Paul is a member of our European Operating Committee, he joined BNY Mellon from IBM & PwC. BNY Mellon is a Triple-A rated financial institution, rated as the Safest Bank in the US by Global Finance. BNY Mellon has $25.5 trillion in assets under custody and administration and $1.2 trillion in assets under management. We provide services to more than 450 insurers across the globe, including 70+ of the top 100 Life firms and 30+ of the top 50 Non-Life firms.
SANJAY KAUL
Risk and Regulation
Logica
Sanjay looks after Logica’s Risk and Regulation practice. He previously lead PwC’s Projects practice for the Insurance and Investment Management Industry. His team works with 5 out of the top 10 Insurers and has experience across 30 Insurers on Solvency II delivery. He regularly attends Roundtables with the FSA, European Parliament Advisors and industry leaders to debate and challenge the evolving Regulatory requirements. Sanjay also delivers market briefings to the Insurance market on Solvency II delivery.
JEAN-CHRISTOPHE MÉNIOUX
Chief Risk Officer
AXA Group
Jean-Christophe Menioux is Chief Risk Officer for the AXA group, in charge of risk management for P&C and Life risks, financial and operational risks, and capital management as well. The Group Risk Management area has approximately 70 people centrally, covering a broad range of areas including asset liability management, the reserving process, application of the product approval process, risk monitoring, operational risk, economic capital and risk management systems.
Previously he was Director of Financing and group Treasurer. His responsibilities involved the centralized financing of the AXA group, including all types of Capital markets solutions such as securitizations, subordinated debt or rights’ issues.
Prior to joining AXA in 2001, Jean-Christophe started his career in 1992 in HSBC France (former Credit Commercial de France) as head of trading on Interest rate derivatives and then as Chief Risk Officer for market risks.
Jean-Christophe holds a M.Sc. in Economics from Ecole Centrale Paris, and followed an Executive Development Program in INSEAD.
Jean-Christophe was also professor of International finance in La Sorbonne University.
PAMELA SCHUERMANS
Solvency II coordinator
EIOPA
Ms. Pamela Schuermans has joined CEIOPS on 1 January 2007, EIOPA’s predecessor till January 2011, where she has been working on Solvency II and International Relations. In EIOPA she is responsible for the coordination of the Solvency II project.
Before that she has worked as an insurance supervisor for the Belgian banking, finance and insurance supervisory authority. She is a lawyer (Namur, Leuven, Heidelberg) holding an MSc in Finance and Financial Law (London) and a university degree in actuarial sciences (Louvain-la-Neuve). She speaks Dutch, French, German and English.
OLE HESSELAGER
Chief Risk Officer
Group Risk & Investment, Tryg
ANDREW WATERS
Vice President
Insurance Solutions, QuIC Financial Technologies
Andrew Waters is a subject matter expert for insurance industry with experience in providing clients with intelligently designed risk and capital management software solutions. The areas in which QuIC provides solutions to insurers are internal and standard models for Solvency II, ERM, market and credit risk, risk aggregation, scenario generation, and interactive reporting. Andrew previously worked at Algorithmics as a member of the Customer Solutions and Design Group with a focus on Solvency II and prior to this was pension consulting at Mercer.
BERNT SAGÅRD
Chief Risk Officer
Storebrand
Bernt Sagård is Chief Risk Officer in Storebrand covering the life insurance operations of the Storebrand Group both in Norway and Sweden. He is also involved in the Solvency II project, especially the pillar 2 work and the ORSA process. Bernt Sagård has been with Storebrand for the last 21 years, most of the time within the Asset Management arm. His last position there was as Chief Investment Officer, Global Equities. He holds a MBA from Norges Handelshøyskole in Bergen and is also a Norwegian Chartered Financial Analyst (AFA).
JOOST ENGELHARD
International Risk & Compliance Director
Logica
Joost Engelhard has more than 30 years experience in banking and insurance, with a strong focus on investment management, risk management and regulatory issues. In the last few years he has been heavily involved in Solvency II around Europe with a key focus on the BeNeLux market where he has established in depth knowledge and experience around Solvency II and created and delivered solid and future proof solutions together with clients.
MICK MURPHY
Managing Director
UK Insurance, Global Client Management
BNY Mellon
TOM BOVINGDON
Editor
Risk Management Professional
Tom Bovingdon is editor of Risk Management Professional, the leading quarterly title for risk managers and enterprise risk, published on behalf of the Institute of Risk Management. Featuring leading industry thought and debate, the magazine covers topics including employment and people, supply chains, best practice, security and compliance, careers and recruitment, political risk and emerging risk.
RENZO G. AVESANI
CRO
Unipol Gruppo Finanziario
CRO, Unipol Gruppo Finanziario since 2007. Previously with the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC, working on international financial surveillance, developing market based indicators of financial stability, implementing Stress Test exercises (FSAP) for advanced and emerging economies, involved in the design of the IMF Risk Management approach.
Former Head of Risk Management at Banca Intesa in Milan where he set up the Risk Management Department, developed the organization and technology framework for the RM function.
After completing the PhD in International Finance at New York University he taught Economics and Finance in the Italian University.
TOBY DUCKER
Solvency II Programme Director
Brit Insurance
Toby is Programme Director for Solvency II and is responsible for overseeing its implementation within Brit Insurance. He joined in 2002 and delivered the operational business systems which now provide the platform through which 95% of the Group’s business is transacted. He has also held a variety of roles across the business, working closely with senior management on the Group’s strategy and the development of the capabilities around Insurance Linked Securities.
KAREL VAN HULLE
Head of Unit
European Commission
Karel Van Hulle is a lawyer by training and is Head of Unit at the European Commission (Directorate-General “Internal Market and Services”), which he joined in 1984 after having served 8 years with the Belgian Banking Commission.
He was subsequently Head of Unit for Accounting Standards, Head of Unit for Financial Reporting and Company Law and Head of Unit for Accounting and Auditing. In that capacity he was closely involved with harmonisation in the fields of accounting, auditing, and company law both at EU level and internationally and served as the Commission’s observer with the International Accounting Standards Committee. He was Secretary of the High Level Group of Experts on Company Law which prepared the Commission’s 2003 Action Plan on Company Law.
Since November 2004, he is Head of the Insurance and Pensions Unit. In his present function, his main responsibility is the preparation of a new solvency regime for insurance and reinsurance companies (Solvency II).
GREGOR POZNIAK
Secretary General
Association of Mutual Insurers & Insurance Cooperatives in Europe (AMICE)
Since March 2008, Gregor Pozniak is the Secretary General of AMICE, the Association of Mutual Insurers and Insurance Cooperatives in Europe (established in late 2007 from two predecessor organisations).
He joined AMICE from ICMA (the International Capital Market Association), based in London and Zurich, where he was Senior Advisor for Regulatory Policy with a focus on European regulatory developments in financial markets regulation. Before this assignment, he was the Deputy Secretary General of the Brussels-based Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE) for seven years (1998-2005).
He holds Masters’ and Doctoral Degrees from Vienna University of Economic Sciences and has studied at London Business School and Georgetown University, Washington D.C.
DAVID SIMMONS
Managing Director
Analytics, Willis Re International & Specialty
David works within the Analytics team in London. He has particular responsibility for Enterprise Risk Management, including advice on regulatory issues (eg Solvency II), rating agency matters and broader financial and capital modeling. He is also heading the Financial Management Initiative for the Willis Research Network.
David is a firm believer in the practical rather than the theoretical. He therefore also maintains an active interest in the modeling support and broking of large reinsurance transactions. Specialisations include large national catastrophe schemes, including capital market involvement, cancellation programme (he worked on the world’s largest) and the modeling of trade credit and political risk (an intellectual and practical challenge).
David holds an honours degree in mathematics from the University of Bristol. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute, a national property insurance prize-winner and Vice-President of the London Insurance Institute.