Directors and Officers
Board of Directors and Senior Management
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Richard Brindle (age 25/4/1962)
Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Group Underwriting Committee
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Richard Brindle was the driving force behind the establishment of Lancashire in late 2005 and serves as a member of the Board. Mr Brindle joined Ascot Underwriting Agency in 2001 as a non-executive member of the Ascot Board, which was a position he held until his resignation in September 2005. As part of his directorship duties at Ascot, Mr Brindle was responsible for a number of independent underwriting reviews and was Chair of the Strategic Business Development Committee. Mr Brindle started his career in 1984 working at Posgate and Denby Managing Agency which was later taken over by Charman Underwriting Agencies. In 1989 Mr Brindle was appointed as Deputy Underwriter of Syndicate 488. In 1991 he was appointed as a Director of Charman Underwriting Agencies and acted as main underwriter until 1999. Mr Brindle left Charman Underwriting Agencies when it was sold to the Ace Group of Companies in Bermuda.
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Neil McConachie (age 28/4/1972)
President and Chief Financial Officer
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Neil McConachie joined Lancashire in February 2006 and leads the finance functions of the group and serves as Group President and a member of the Board. Neil was previously Treasurer and Chief Accounting Officer of Montpelier Re Holdings Ltd. He has extensive experience in debt and equity capital markets transactions in the U.K. and the U.S. public markets, and has also previously held positions of Chief Risk Officer and Chief Operating Officer. Neil has a B.A. in Accounting and Finance from Heriot-Watt University and an M.B.A from Edinburgh Business School.
Non-Executive Directors
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Martin Thomas (age 1/6/1963)
Non-Executive Chairman
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Martin Thomas is a partner and board member of Altima Partners LLP, a UK-based hedge fund manager, and a director of Spearhead International Limited. Prior to this, he was an official of the Bank of England, most recently on secondment to the EU Commission where he worked in the Financial Services Policy and Financial Markets Directorate of the EU Commission's Internal Market and Services Directorate General. Before Martin joined the Commission, he established the Financial Markets Law Committee at the Bank of England. Prior to that, he was Deputy Chief Executive of the Financial Law Panel and prior to that, senior counsel to the European Central Bank in Frankfurt. He started his career in private practice, specialising in corporate and commercial litigation at Travers Smith and in the law and regulation of financial services at Clifford Chance.
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John Bishop (age 16/3/1945)
Non-Executive Director
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John Bishop is an actuary with broad experience in the insurance sector. He has served on the boards of a number of insurance companies, both in an executive capacity and as a non-executive director. He is currently a non-executive Director of Berkshire Hathaway International, Motability Finance Ltd. and Houston Capital Corporation Underwriting Agency. John has previously worked at the Euler Group on its managing board and as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Eagle Star Insurance Company Ltd where he was responsible for the worldwide general insurance operations and, before that, as Managing Director of Sun Alliance UK Insurance Company.
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Emma Duncan (age 8/4/1959)
Non-Executive Director
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Emma Duncan is the Deputy Editor of The Economist. She has also held several other posts on the paper, including Britain Editor and Asia Editor. She has covered the media business, the Middle East, home affairs, agriculture, commodities and the transport industry and has served as Delhi correspondent, covering India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. She has written special reports for the paper on Saudia Arabia and the Gulf states, India, Pakistan and the food industry. Ms Duncan appears regularly on television and radio programmes. She has written widely on a freelance basis, for publications such as the Times, the Sunday Times, the Daily Telegraph, Vogue and Cosmopolitan. She has an honours degree in politics, philosophy and economics from Oxford University and started her career as a researcher and reporter at Independent Television News.
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Jens Juul (age 26/2/1949)
Non-Executive Director
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Jens Juul, the Honorary Consul of Sweden for Bermuda, has 31 years of international reinsurance experience. He founded and managed subsidiaries for the Storebrand Group in Latin America and Canada and was also the CFO of their US subsidiary, Christiana General, prior to moving to Bermuda, where he was the founding Chief Executive Officer of Scandinavian Reinsurance Company Limited until his retirement in 2002. He is an ARIAS-US certified arbitrator and umpire.
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Ralf Oelssner (age 25/5/1944)
Non-Executive Director and Senior Independent Non-Executive Director
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Ralf Oelssner was Vice President of corporate insurance for Lufthansa German Airlines until 31 October 2007. In 1979, he was appointed director of corporate insurance, and in 1990 was appointed managing director of Lufthansa’s in-house broker. Ralf became a member of the executive board of the captive insurance and reinsurance companies of Lufthansa in 2000 and served as chairman of the International Air Transport Association (“IATA”) in 1982 and 1983 and as chairman of the IATA Risk & Insurance Managers’ Panel in 2001 and 2002. He was chairman and president of Airline Mutual Insurance, Bermuda from its foundation in May 1986 until dissolution of the Company in March 2007. He is President of the German Risk Managers’ Association. He holds an M.A. in Economics from Cologne University.
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Robert Spass (age 3/3/1956)
Non-Executive Director
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Robert Sass is a founding partner of Capital Z Partners, an investment firm he joined on its formation in 1998. He previously held similar positions at Insurance Partners, L.P. and International Insurance Advisors L.P. He currently serves on the Board of Universal American Financial Corp., Endurance Specialty Holdings, Ltd. and other privately-held companies.
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William Spiegel (age 8/7/1962)
Non-Executive Director
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William Spiegel is a founding partner of Pine Brook Road Partners, LLC, a private equity firm specialising in energy and financial services investing. Mr. Spiegel has worked in the private equity industry since 1990 at Lehman Brothers and the Cypress Group.
Mr. Spiegel has a B.Sc. in Economics from The London School of Economics, an M.A. in Economics from the University of Western Ontario and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago. Mr. Spiegel has served on the Boards of Catlin Group Limited, Financial Guaranty Insurance Co., MedPointe, Inc., Montpelier Re Holdings Ltd., and Scottish Re Group Limited.
