The Board

Andrew was appointed chief executive on 1st September 2008. Previously he was finance director and he joined the board in June 2003. Prior to that he was UK chief financial officer at ING and was deputy global chief financial officer and global head of finance for the equity markets division of ING Barings, having held various financial positions with ING Barings since January 1997. He qualified as a chartered accountant with Coopers and Lybrand in 1987.

Clive joined Beazley in 1998 as Head of Marine for Syndicate 2623/623 and is a member of both the Beazley plc and Beazley Furlonge Limited Boards. Clive has more than twenty five years experience in the marine insurance industry and is a member of the LMA Marine Committee and Chairman of the Joint War Committee.

Jonathan is a Director at Beazley, having joined the company in 1992. Jonathan sits on Beazley's Executive and PLC boards and leads the Property group today based in the UK, US and Asia. Jonathan entered Lloyd's in 1973 when he began his career as an Underwriting Assistant.

Martin joined Beazley as Group Finance Director in April 2009. Martin has extensive top level experience in the insurance sector and his twenty-three year career includes a number of senior level finance and general management roles including four years as a Director of a substantial London Market business. Martin trained as a property casualty actuary and became a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in 1988.

Neil is the Chief Underwriting Officer of the Group. After graduating from St Edmund Hall, Oxford, he began his career at Lloyds in 1984, writing the Non-Marine Treaty account. He joined Beazley in 1990 and was appointed to the Board in 1993. Neil was elected to the Board of the Lloyd's Market Association in 2011 and is a fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute.

Adrian began his career at Gen Re in 1993 writing short tail facultative reinsurance before moving to the treaty department in 1997, where he wrote both short and long tail business specialising in Financial Lines. He joined Specialty Lines at Beazley in 2001 where he has performed a variety of roles, including building the long tail treaty account, managing the private enterprise teams, underwriting manager, and managing the large risk teams before taking responsibility for Specialty Lines in 2008. He was appointed to the Boards of Beazley Furlonge ltd in 2008, and Beazley Plc in 2011.

Dennis Holt is the chairman of the company. Dennis Holt has more than 40 years experience in financial services markets. He was formerly a Main Board Executive Director at LloydsTSB (2000-01) and Chief Executive of AXA UK and a member of AXA’s Global Executive Committee (2001-06). He has been a Vice Chairman of the Association of British Insurers and Deputy Chairman of Bank of Ireland. He is currently Chairman of Liverpool Victoria and of Bank of Ireland UK.

Vincent is currently chairman of the Truelife Group and a non-executive director of FBD Holdings Ltd. He retired as Chief Executive of Vhi Healthcare in 2008 and was previously Group Chief Executive of the Norwich Union Insurance Group in Ireland for ten years. He is the immediate past president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland and is a past president of the Irish Insurance Federation, the Insurance Institute of Ireland, and the Irish Association of Investment Managers. He was a director of the Irish Stock Exchange for nine years to June 2004.

Padraic is Chairman of the Irish Stock Exchange and a non executive director of Rabobank, JP Morgan Bank Dublin Ltd and a number of other companies. He was Managing Director of NCB Group between 1991 and 1999 prior to which he was Chief Economist at the firm. Before joining NCB, Mr. O’Connor worked at the Department of Finance and the Central Bank of Ireland. He holds primary and postgraduate degrees in economics from University College Dublin.

Gordon Hamilton recently retired as a senior audit partner in Deloitte & Touche LLP after more than 30 years, principally involved with listed multi-national company audits and major forensic assignments. He is also currently a director of the listed South African group Barloworld Limited.

George Blunden became a Beazley plc non-executive director in January 2010, having served a non-executive director of Beazley Furlonge Ltd, Beazley’s Lloyd’s managing agency, since 1993. He has been actively involved in business development and financial investments for most of his career, holding senior positions at AllianceBernstein Ltd (from where he retired as Senior Vice President in December 2009); Union plc (CEO 1992-1997); SG Warburg Securities (Director 1985-1992); and Seccombe, Marshall and Campion plc (Director 1979-1985). He holds an MA from Oxford University in politics, philosophy and economics.

Ken Sroka joined the board of Beazley plc as a non-executive director on 12th November 2010. He was formerly head of product development at Zurich Financial Services, retiring in 2008. During his fifteen years at Zurich Financial Services, he created and directed Zurich's financial lines business in North America and more recently he focused on the development of specialist products in North America as president and CEO of Zurich North American Specialties Division (products included environmental, excess liability, professional liability, political risk and accident & health). Prior to joining Zurich in 1993, Mr Sroka's career included roles at Chubb, AIG and USF&G.

Rolf Tolle was Lloyd's Franchise Performance Director for seven years until he retired in December 2009. He was responsible for working with individual franchisees to improve the commercial performance of the market. Prior to joining Lloyd's he was Chief Underwriting Officer and a Board Member of the Faraday Group, the London based insurance operation owned by General Re Corporation. During a career in insurance spanning 35 years, Rolf was Chief Executive Officer at Europa Re, Managing Director of the Norwegian insurer, Polaris/Unipolaris, held a range of senior positions with Scandinavian insurer Storebrand and has worked in the US with Christiania General. Rolf has a Diploma in Political science from the Free University of Berlin.