Board Members
Chairman
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Julian Porter- Factorre
Julian has worked within the insurance/reinsurance industry for over 25 years and has recently estblished Factorre. Prior to this Julian worked at Capita where he had responsibility for the development of consultancy services brnded as Lambourn. Julian spent 20 years within the Sedgwick and then Marsh empire taking on a series of management roles within Aviation and Non-Marine both current and legacy business.
Deputy Chairman
Steve Goate - Head Of Reinsurance Solutions
Senior Vice President
Steve joined the Group in 1979 from Pearl Assurance and transferred to ReSolutions in 1996 where he was instrumental in creating the Company. Steve now heads up ReSolutions.
He has extensive knowledge of proportional and non-proportional business dealing with Marine, Aviation, Composite, Non-Marine, International and North American business. He has dealt extensively with all elements of APH business over the last 20 years and is a member of the environmental claims managers association. He is a Director of ASP, a member of ARC, the LMX discussion group, as well as the LPC claims/broker group, looking at opportunities to improve and streamline the London market process of which he has extensive knowledge. He is well known and respected in the London Market and is involved in all elements of marketing and business development, including client negotiation and the production of service agreements with defined standards and deadlines.
He worked as part of the RSI re-engineering team as a three-month project to streamline internal procedures.
He has travelled extensively to resolve issues and collect debt particularly in the North American market where he has established many contacts. He also has regular dealings with attorneys such as Mendes and Lord Bissell & Brook. He has also performed due diligence reviews of numerous third party clients.
Board Members
Peter Matthews - Global Reinsurance Consultants Ltd
Peter is the Managing Director of Global Reinsurance Consultants Ltd.and has almost 20 years reinsurance experience gained with both brokers and specialist run-off consultancies. Peter's main strengths lie in: Worldwide Debt Recovery, Commutations and Effective Dispute Resolution.
Gerard Dupre - M.C.D. Consultants (Reinsurance)
Gerard Dupre is one of the partners of M.C.D. Consultants (Reinsurance), a company founded in 1998 which provide insurance and reinsurance related services to a select number of large European and North American companies. Gerard has 30 years experience in the european reinsurance market, one third of which was with the Winterthur Swiss Insurance Group. In 1990 he set up Atropos Management Services Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Winterthur Swiss, as the dedicated vehicle to run off the substantial liabilities of the solvent stamp companies of H.S.Weavers- and C.R.Driver Agencies. Gerard is skillful multi lingual negotiator who specialises in run off, dispute resolution and commutations.
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Stephen Carter - Carter Perry Bailey
Stephen Carter has recently formed Carter Perry Bailey LLP a City based practice focussing on the insurance and reinsurance markets alongside Bill Perry and Bernadette Bailey.
Stephen Carter was previoulsy head of Charles Russell’s insurance and reinsurance group. On qualification in 1980, Stephen joined solicitors Reynolds Porter Chamberlain, where he handled professional indemnity insurance claims and coverage issues for insurance companies and Lloyd’s underwriters. In 1985, Stephen joined Charles Russell for the purpose of a fulltime secondment as in-house Counsel to Fenton Insurance Company and Market Runoff Services. Fenton Insurance Company was illiquid, settlement of its liabilities being facilitated by a ground breaking scheme. Market Runoff Services was one of the first companies to specialise in third party runoff management. Here Stephen was involved in advising on a wider range of matters involved in the management of insurance business.
In 1987, Stephen moved back to Charles Russell as head of its insurance and reinsurance practice. He has remained active in advising on regulatory and runoff related matters, including finality products. He is experienced in conducting international litigation and arbitration for insurers and reinsurers, in relation to which he has conducted arbitration in both the United Kingdom and the United States and has litigated in these and other jurisdictions. Stephen has also advised on the complex problems arising from pooling and agency relationships, including disputes between agents and their insurer principals.
Stephen has provided expert evidence in both US and Australian litigation on insurance law and arbitration law. He is qualified as a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is co-chair of the International Activities Committee and country representative for the United Kingdom in the Federation of Defense and Corporate Council, a Board Member of the Association of Insurance and Reinsurance Service Providers and a member of the International Chamber of Commerce Insurance & Financial Services Commission, the International Insurance Society and the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. He is named as a leader in his field in Chambers Guide and appears in the “Guide to the World’s Leading Insurance & Reinsurance Lawyers” and “Legal Experts”.
Colin Gray - Gray Wolf Group
Colin co-founded Gray Wolf Group in 1999 after fifteen years of experience in the insurance and reinsurance field with a major US insurance group. Gray Wolf Group assists Insureds and Cedants in the recovery of insurance and reinsurance claims and has managed assets totaling in excess of $300 million and recovered in excess of $60 million for its clients.
Colin is a CPA and Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) and holds the Associate in Insurance Accounting and Finance and Associate in Reinsurance designations. Colin has also served as an arbitrator in reinsurance disputes.
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Romy Comiter - Smart Business Advisory & Consulting
Romy is a Senior Manager at SMART where she leads the UK Insurance practice. She has over 20 years of experience assisting clients in managing large complex sets of data to ensure that data is readily available, accurate, complete and secure to enable better management decisions, reduced risks and enhanced productivity and operational efficiency. Additionally, Romy assisted entities world wide in reviewing portfolios for reserve sufficiency and IBNR evaluations. She has worked with solvent, insolvent and run-off entities to mitigate liability and implement cost effective strategies to finalize the book.
Ashley Prager- Risk Resolutions
Details to follow
Philip Seaman - Senator Group
Philip Seaman, who is a member of the IRIB, the Three Rooms Club at Lloyd’s and was a name at Lloyd's for ten years, has built a career in Insurance Broking spanning over 30 years. During this time Philip has worked for a number of London Market brokers including both large multi national brokers and smaller niche players. During the course of his career Philip has worked on the placing and claims side handling a wide variety of classes of liability business.
Since joining Senator Philip has led the broking team and has been heavily involved in expanding the services provided to the Lloyd’s market. Philip’s primary responsibility is in respect of the delivery of the group’s services to underwriter appointed experts where in addition to managing the team he also handles personally the more complex broking issues.
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