Property Facultative

Business Group Leader-Property

Geoffrey began his career in 1979 as a marine insurance broker. In 1983 he joined Sedgwick Group and spent over seven years in the energy division, initially as an account executive and ultimately as a London Market placing broker. He was then appointed energy underwriter at Royal Insurance, latterly known as Royal and SunAlliance.

At the beginning of 1998 Geoffrey joined the energy and industrial underwriting team at Catlin in London. In addition to his role as class underwriter, Geoffrey assumed short term responsibility for the development of Asian business and was seconded to the Catlin Asia Pte Ltd offices in Singapore to assist in setting up the new venture.

Geoffrey was appointed as an Underwriting Operations Director in 2002 and was appointed Property Business Group Leader in 2006.

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Following his graduation from Lampeter University in 1993, Daniel joined Clegg Gifford & Co Ltd as a placing broker before moving to G.E Lloyd-Roberts (syndicate 55) where he worked as an underwriter on the UK liability account. In 1997 Dan joined the Cox Nuclear Syndicate (syndicate 1176) where he was nuclear underwriter, also working on the power generation portfolio. Dan joined Catlin in 2002 as a class underwriter.

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Paul graduated from Oxford Brookes with a BA in Business and Management. During his degree he completed a sandwich year at ExxonMobil (Esso) in their Supply and Distribution division. He joined Catlin in mid 2003 as an underwriting assistant for the property facultative account and was promoted to assistant underwriter at the end of 2006.

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Isabelle graduated from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne with a BSc in Agri-Business Management and Marketing. She joined Catlin in 2003 as an underwriting assistant on the direct and facultative property account and became an assistant underwriter in 2006.

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After graduating from Reading University in 1994 David joined Sedgwick Group plc where he worked in the Global Risk Division gaining experience in a number of areas including broking and technical support. David moved to Sedgwick Energy in 1996, working as an onshore energy placing broker. David joined Catlin in January 1999 as an underwriting assistant. He was promoted to class underwriter for the property facultative account during 2002.

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Jonathan joined Willis Faber and Dumas in 1985 as a divisional director, broking International Property business. In 1996 he moved to Wellington Underwriting as senior property underwriter, reporting to the Property Account until its merger with Catlin. While at Wellington Jonathan also served on the committees of Reinsurance, Technical Underwriting, Underwriting Risk, LMA Regulatory, LMA International Property.

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Rhys graduated from Manchester University with a BA (Hons) in Economics and Modern History. He joined Wellington Underwriting as an underwriting assistant in the Property Department in December 2002. In 2003 he progressed to assistant underwriter then to class underwriter in 2007.