Duncan has been involved in the insurance industry for the past 30 years, servicing the corporate broking world, his main focus being Corporate and International Client Servicing and business management. Duncan joined Marsh (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd in 2000 and was the Chief Operating Officer. Duncan served on the board of Marsh (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd and is an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute (UK & RSA) and holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management Studies.
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Duncan was the Chairman of the South African Financial Intermediaries Association during 2007 and 2008.
In April 2008 Duncan relocated to the Middle East to set up Marsh Qatar, a strategic development for Marsh in the region.
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Dennis began his career at Price Forbes in 1969. He was appointed to the board of Sedgwick Limited in 1982. From there, Dennis joined Alexander Howden in 1984 as Chairman and CEO of UK Wholesale Operations before moving up to be joint Chairman Alexander Howden Group 1986.
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As Chairman and CEO of Alexander Howden in 1995 Dennis was given responsibility for Global Captive Operations.
Aon acquired Alexander and Alexander in 1997 whereupon Dennis was appointed Chairman and CEO of the Aon Group Limited with responsibility for Reinsurance and Specialist Broking Operations and Global Captive Operations. He then went on to serve as Chairman of Aon Re Global, Chairman and CEO of Aon Operations UK before being appointed Chairman of Aon Global in January 2007.
In addition to his company responsibilities, 1996 Dennis was elected as the first Chairman of the World Insurance Network (WIN). He has also served as a Deputy Chairman of Lloyd’s Insurance Broking Committee for many years and is a past President of the Insurance Institute of London. Dennis served as Chairman of Troika Insurance (the company established by the UK Government after the WTC event to provide third party war and terrorism cover for passenger airlines).
In 1983, Dennis successfully completed the PMD course at Harvard Business School.
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Patrick W. Kenny joined the International Insurance Society, Inc., as President and Chief Executive Officer in June 2001. Mr. Kenny is responsible for the overall management of the IIS, a non-profit organization of insurance executives and academics, whose mission is to facilitate the worldwide transfer of ideas and innovations and to foster the development of personal networks across national and international insurance markets. The IIS, which was formed in 1964, today has over 900 members from 90 countries representing key insurance companies around the globe.
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Prior to joining the IIS, Mr. Kenny was the Executive Vice President of Frontier Insurance Group, Inc. in Rock Hill, Rock Hill, NY, from August 1998 to March 2001. From 1995 – 1998 he served as Senior Vice President of SS&C Technologies, a technology corporation located in Windsor, CT.
Mr. Kenny served as Group Executive, Finance & Administration, and Chief Financial Officer at AETNA Life and Casualty from January 1988 to December 1994 where he was responsible for corporate finance, services and communications, as well as technology, investor relations and internal audit. Management responsibilities included overseeing 6000 employees.
Before joining AETNA, Mr. Kenny was the Partner in Charge of the Insurance Audit Practice and a member of the International Insurance Practice Committee at KPMG Peat Marwick from 1981 to 1987. Previously he served as Partner in Charge of the Continental Insurance Practice at KPMG offices in Paris, France and The Hague, Netherlands. Mr. Kenny started his career at KPMG Peat Marwick in St. Louis in 1966.
Mr. Kenny is a member of the boards of directors of Assured Guaranty, ING Partners Inc., Odyssey Re, IOF Forester and Overland Solutions. He is also a member of University of Missouri Strategic Development Board for the College of Business and the University of Notre Dame Advisory Council for University Libraries.
A Certified Public Accountant in Missouri, Ohio and Connecticut, Mr. Kenny holds a Bachelor’s degree of Business Administration from the University of Notre Dame and a Master’s degree in Accounting from the University of Missouri at Columbia.
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Mr Webb is a graduate in law of Victoria University of Wellington. Prior to joining the QFC Regulatory Authority, Mr Webb was a leading New Zealand commercial barrister specialising in securities, banking, corporate, insolvency and public regulatory law, acting in advisory, contentious business and transactional matters.
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He has been closely involved in financial markets, corporate and insolvency law development and reform. He has also acted in lead legal roles in regulatory regimes for the electricity and telecommunications sectors. From 1992 to 2003 he was a member and variously acting Chairman of the New Zealand Securities Commission. Other appointments have included as a director of significant New Zealand and Australian companies and recently Chair of the Ministerial Task Force on Financial Intermediaries in New Zealand.
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Carl Bauer-Schlichtegroll is managing director and head of J.P.Morgan's European Insurance Investment Banking Group. Prior to joining J.P.Morgan, he has been with Goldman Sachs in New York and London, where he was a managing director in the Financial Institutions Group.
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Mr. Bauer-Schlichtegroll has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, defence situations and capital markets. He has completed his undergraduate studies in business administration at the University of Geneva, Switzerland and his graduate studies at the Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo, Japan.
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Bob Van Gieson is a seasoned property and casualty executive with extensive international credentials; establishing strategic alliances, expanding products and markets, and negotiating complex agendas. Bob has significant experience integrating acquisitions, divesting non-strategic businesses and creating high performing teams.
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Bob joined Arch Insurance in 2003 to establish the European operation, and in just four years has led the company to produce profitable revenue of $500m in 2007. Bob began his insurance career with Chubb Corporation, culminating in his appointment as Chairman and Chief Executive of Chubb Europe. Prior to joining Arch, Bob was CEO Global Operations for CNA.
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Leonard H. Schrank is an international executive, entrepreneur and business leader with 35 year’s experience in information services based in Boston, London and Brussels. He is currently Chairman and co-founder of Act3 Technologies, LLC, a new company for transforming Internet marketing.
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From 1992 – 2007, Mr. Schrank was CEO, SWIFT, the industry-owned co-operative supplying secure, standardised financial messaging services and interface software to 8,000 financial institutions in 200 countries. In 2007, annual revenues achieved $ 1 Billion with 2,000 employees world-wide. In 2001, in a full page profile, The Wall Street Journal called SWIFT "one of the dominant franchises of our network age".
Mr. Schrank was also President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Belgium from 1998 – 2007. Achievements during his tenure included lowering of corporate tax rates, renegotiation of the US/Belgian Tax Treaty, and establishment of notional interest deduction effectively reducing the cost of capital.
Mr. Schrank’s previous career included eight years in London in charge of International for Chase Manhattan Bank’s Interactive Data Corporation, a global information services company. He joined Chase/IDC in 1977, when it acquired the software company he co-founded in 1970 with four MIT partners.
Mr. Schrank was a keynote speaker at Sibos and a regular participant at the Davos World Economic Forum and Microsoft’s CEO Summit. An American, he is an MIT graduate.
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Stuart Pearce was appointed CEO and Director General of the QFCA in May 2005.
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Previously with HSBC for 31 years, his roles included CEO of HSBC Private Banking Europe and the Middle East, Chief Executive and Country Manager for HSBC Japan, Head of Corporate Banking in the UK and CEO of HSBC Investment Management.
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Stephen has over 28 years experience in the international insurance and reinsurance arena, specialising in Global Specialty lines including Aviation, Space and Retrocessional business. Stephen joined Heritage in February 2006. He leads the London and Middle East Teams and is a member of the Holding Company Board.
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Prior to joining Heritage, Stephen held numerous senior positions within the London broking market, including at Johnson & Higgins, Marsh and most recently as Team Leader of Global Specialty Reinsurance at Benfield Group.
Stephen is a regular speaker at international conferences, presenting on issues including captive insurance, risk management and the Middle Eastern insurance market.
Stephen is married, with five children.
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Ian started his career in the Royal Insurance Group, working for the British Engine, the Royal’s specialist engineering insurance company.
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After serving as the local manager in Aberdeen, Scotland during the initial years of the North Sea oil boom in the early 1970’s Ian was relocated to Dubai in 1978 to establish an underwriting unit to serve the Middle East region. The secondment was to last approximately three years but Ian stayed on in the area and has recently started his 32nd year in the region.
Ian has worked in senior management positions in the UAE, Oman and Qatar, joining Qatar Insurance Company (QIC) in 1990 where for many years headed up Qatar Insurance Company’s underwriting and developmental programmes as a Deputy Chief Executive Officer.
Ian is currently the Chief Executive Officer of QIC International LLC a QFC licensed company, which owns and operates all the QIC Group’s assets outside of Qatar comprising regional branches, subsidiaries and associated companies throughout the GCC.
Ian recently spearheaded the entry of QICI into the European market, the company having applied for and been granted a licence to operate in Malta and will write both direct business and reinsurance on the island.
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Jon Morton is a senior executive in the learning industry, working in both Corporate and Business School leadership and management roles.
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As a Leader, Jon Morton has been responsible for the successful restructure, strategic innovation and growth of both international Business Schools and a corporate education business. He has delivered in the start-up, growth and rescue/turnaround environments. These roles have involved strategic design, organisational restructure and development, change leadership, strategic and operational business development and management to consolidation/growth.
As the Director working with Boards/senior teams of international corporates and in top international business schools, Jon Morton has managed and led multi functional, multinational teams in the design and delivery of innovative organisational and personal development learning processes. These have involved the translation of specific corporate strategic objectives into leadership development processes and the subsequent impact of learning back to the individual and organisation.
He is currently Director of the Qatar Finance and Business Academy (QFBA) – this is a new financial learning institute being developed in partnership between Qatar Financial Centre (QFC) and the Qatar Foundation (QF). QFBA is in development phase and will formally launch its portfolio 3rd quarter of 2009.
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HE Yousef Kamal has been Minister of Finance of the State of Qatar since January 2002. He became Acting Minister of Economy and Commerce, and Chairman of the Qatar Financial Centre Authority, in March 2006. He was Minister of Finance, Economy and Commerce from January 1998 until the Ministry of Economy and Commerce was established in 2002.
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He is Chairman of the Doha Securities Market, Chairman of Ras Laffan Liquefied Natural Gas, Deputy Chairman of Qatar Petroleum, a Director of Qatar Telecommunications, and a Director of Qatar Central Bank. He heads several local, regional and Arab committees. He was Under-Secretary at the Ministry of Finance, Economy and Commerce from 1993-98, and Director of Financial Affairs in the Ministry of Finance and Petroleum from 1988-93.
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Kai-Uwe Schanz is Chairman and Principal Partner of Dr. Schanz, Alms & Company ( www.schanz-alms.com), a Zurich-based communications and strategy advisory firm focusing on the financial services industry. He advises companies as well as prestigious institutions such as The Geneva Association, the think-tank of the CEOs of the world’s largest insurance and reinsurance companies. Kai-Uwe Schanz holds a Ph.D. degree in International Economics from the University of St. Gallen
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From 2004 to 2007 Dr. Schanz served as Chief Communication & Corporate Development Officer at Converium, a Top 10 reinsurer. From 1995 to 2004 he worked for Swiss Re, the world’s leading reinsurer, performing various senior management roles such as Chief Economist Asia-Pacific, based in Hong Kong, and Global Head of Communications Content and Strategic Issues Management.
In 2003 Dr. Schanz was appointed Research Fellow at the China Center for Insurance and Social Security Research at Beijing University. In 2005 he received the Geneva Association / International Insurance Society Research Award. Dr. Schanz is also a Member of the Board of Governors of the Asia-Pacific Risk and Insurance Association, Singapore.
His record of publications includes leading newspapers such as the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as well as the relevant trade press in Europe, Asia, the US and Latin America. Dr. Schanz was also quoted by The Economist and The Financial Times.
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Graham has been the regional head of distribution for Zurich International Life (Zurich) since 2006. He is responsible for all distribution in the Middle East and Africa – a region which is responsible for generating approximately one third of Zurich’s new business. Graham operates out of the Dubai International Finance Centre and oversees a team of over 10 distribution managers.
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In 2007, Graham was appointed branch manager in Dubai for Zurich Life Insurance Company Ltd.
Graham started his career with Eagle Star Life’s UK operation as a graduate trainee broker sales consultant in 1988, was appointed unit sales manager in 1990 and then branch sales manager in 1993.
Graham lives in Dubai with his wife and three children.
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In his 30-year career, Mr Tan has held an array of senior positions in the insurance industry, primarily in South East Asia. He established Equitas, a risk management services provider and in 1988 he was recruited to Brunei's National Insurance Company.
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In 1992, Mr Tan joined Union Re. On Union's integration into Swiss Re six years later, he transferred to Zurich to join Swiss Re's Group Head Office. He relocated to Hong Kong in 1999 before transferring back to Singapore in 2004. He joined HSBC Insurance Brokers as a director in 2005 before establishing Asia Capital Re in 2006.
His record of publications includes leading newspapers such as the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as well as the relevant trade press in Europe, Asia, the US and Latin America. Dr. Schanz was also quoted by The Economist and The Financial Times.
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On 1 October 2008, Luc Albert was nominated Market Executive Switzerland, Middle East & Turkey, Mediterranean, Benelux and Iberia and member of the Executive Team of Europe Division.
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Luc Albert, originally from the Netherlands, graduated as a Mechanical Engineer at the Technical University of Delft in 1990. He served as a Research Engineer at Charmilles
Technologies SA from 1989 to 1992 and as a Project Manager at AGIE, before joining Swiss Re in Zurich in 1994 as an Engineering Underwriter. After four and a half years at the Swiss Re office in Mexico City in various functions, he joined Swiss Re in Armonk in 2000 as Head Executive Office & Communications and was nominated Head of Latin America and member of
the Executive Team of the Americas Division in 2002. Luc played a key role as project manager in Armonk, responsible for the integration of GE Insurance Solutions in 2006 and was
nominated head of Frankona Entities Europe on 1 July 2006, based in Munich. Between 2006 and 2008, Luc served as a Board Member of both Swiss Re Frankona and Swiss Re Germany.
Luc is married with three children.
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Duncan Buchanan
Dennis L. Mahoney
Patrick Kenny
Mr Michael Webb
Carl Bauer-Schlichtegroll
Bob Van Gieson
Leonard H. Schrank
Stuart Pearce
Stephen May
Ian Sangster
Jon Morton
HE Yousef Hussain Kamal
Dr. Kai-Uwe Schanz
Graham Morrall
JOHN TAN
Luc Albert
