Management

Alex Maloney joined Lancashire in December 2005 and was appointed Group Chief Executive Officer in April 2014. On joining, Mr Maloney was responsible for establishing and building the energy underwriting team and account and, in May 2009, was appointed Group Chief Underwriting Officer. Since November 2010, Mr Maloney has served as a member of the Board and was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Lancashire Insurance Company (UK) Limited in 2012. Mr Maloney has over 30 years’ underwriting experience and has also worked in the New York and Bermuda markets.

Natalie Kershaw joined Lancashire in December 2009 as the Group Financial Controller and has also held the positions of Chief Financial Officer of Lancashire Insurance Company Limited and Group Chief Accounting Officer. She has over 20 years’ experience of the insurance/reinsurance sector with previous roles at Swiss Re, ALAS (Bermuda) Ltd and PwC. Natalie graduated from Jesus College, Oxford University in 1996 with a first class degree in Geography and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Paul Gregory has led the underwriting operations of the Lancashire Group since May 2014 as Group Chief Underwriting Officer. Paul joined Lancashire in 2007 as part of the team responsible for underwriting the energy portfolio. In January 2009, he was appointed Chief Underwriting Officer of Lancashire Insurance Company (UK) Ltd and was responsible for all business underwritten from the platform. Paul also served as Chief Executive Officer of Lancashire Insurance Company (UK) Ltd between 2014 and 2019. Paul has been a member of the Lancashire Holdings board’s Underwriting and Underwriting Risk Committee since 2010 and has served as Chief Executive Officer of Lancashire Capital Management (LCM) since 2021. Prior to working at Lancashire, Paul was an energy underwriter at AIG and he started his career at Marsh as an Account Executive in the Energy team as part of the Marsh graduate scheme.

John Cadman joined Lancashire in March 2013. He is responsible for all legal issues affecting the group and is Chief Executive Officer of Lancashire Insurance Company (UK) Limited. Prior to joining Lancashire, John was a partner in the corporate department of CMS Cameron McKenna LLP, a City law firm, and between 1998 and 2007 was a partner at Barlow Lyde & Gilbert. John is an English qualified lawyer and qualified as a solicitor in 1990. John is an experienced corporate and transactional lawyer and advised numerous insurance and reinsurance entities on legal issues during his time in private practice.

Sam Churchill was appointed as Group Chief Operating Officer in July 2023 having joined Lancashire in January 2019 as the Group Head of Internal Audit. Sam’s role as Group COO covers: Underwriting Operations functions; the CIO functions (which include IT, Information Security, Vendor Management and Enterprise Architecture); Office Administration and Facilities; and the Change function. Sam has worked in the insurance industry for the last 18 years, including roles at Brit Insurance and Tokio Marine Kiln, and she qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PwC.

Hayley Johnston joined Lancashire in September 2007 as a member of the underwriting team. In May 2014 Hayley was appointed Chief Underwriting Officer for Lancashire Insurance Company (UK) Limited, in addition to her Outwards Reinsurance Manager role. Previously she was responsible for the underwriting of the Marine and Aviation accounts and from May 2011 acted as the Deputy Chief Underwriting Officer for Lancashire Insurance Company (UK) Limited. Hayley previously worked for Axis Specialty Europe where she was the Underwriting Manager and Outwards Reinsurance Manager for their European headquarters based in Dublin, Ireland. Hayley became CEO of Lancashire Insurance Company Limited in 2020.

Sarah joined Lancashire in June 2023 as Chief HR Officer. Sarah has over 20 years’ HR experience in large financial services sector businesses including M&G, the financial services arm of the Co-operative Group and NatWest Group.

John was appointed Chief Executive Officer, Lancashire Syndicates Limited, in June 2022. He was previously the Active Underwriter for Syndicate 3010 having joined Lancashire Syndicates in 2014. He was also previously Aviation underwriter for Atrium Syndicate 609 for 10 years and prior to that spent 21 years at Hardy Syndicate 382.

Louise Wells has been with Lancashire since September 2011 and is responsible for the Group's Enterprise Risk Management function, having previously held the role of Head of Internal Audit. Prior to joining Lancashire, Louise spent almost 6 years at Lloyd's of London acting as Deputy Head of Internal Audit, Senior Risk Executive and Chief Risk Officer of Centrewrite. Louise has 19 years audit and risk experience within the insurance market having worked in London, Sydney and Bermuda.